Activites

• 1995/06/24 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 1995/222
  • OJ L 141 24.06.1995, p. 0067
• 1995/04/05 Debate in Parliament
  • T4-0142/1995 summary

    The European Parliament granted the Commission discharge for the management of the ECSC for the 1993 financial year. In its decision granting discharge, Parliament acknowledged the sums quoted on the annual accounts for the ECSC to 31 December 1993 and referred to the conclusions in the Court of Auditors' report of 30 June 1994 in which the Court found that the annual accounts presented a true picture of the results of ECSC transactions during the financial year in question. At the same time, Parliament set out a series of observations in a resolution annexed to its decision: - knowing that the ECSC Treaty is due to expire in 2002 and that certain arrangements have already been made to transfer some of the ECSC's activities to the Community, Parliament, while recognizing the role of this institution in promoting the interests of the industrial sectors, called on the Commission to speed up the transfer of less sectoral ECSC activities (such as social policy, retraining, research); - with regard to the annual accounts, it called on the Commission to continue to develop its ex ante risk analysis techniques in order to project the risk to the ECSC balance sheet over several years; - with regard to loans, the European Parliament welcomed the fact that subsidized ECSC loans were granted on the basis of job-creating criteria but called on the Commission to distribute these loans fairly between the Member States, if necessary by modulating the conditions under which interest rate subsidies were granted in the different regions. Finally, Parliament drew particular attention to two precise points: - the fact that interest rate subsidies paid in error for investments by the Bagnoli steelworks had not been recovered and the steelworks had subsequently closed. The European Parliament recommended that these subsidies be recovered by the end of the year, if necessary through the courts; - the fact that investments in two British coal mines had been financed by subsidized ECSC loans and that these too had also closed two years later. The European Parliament again called on the Commission to recover these sums and to allocate them to conversion schemes in the regions affected.

• 1995/03/20 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0057/1995
• 1994/06/30 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

Documents

• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A4-0057/1995
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0142/1995
• : Decision 1995/222
• : OJ L 141 24.06.1995, p. 0067

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)