Activites

• 1997/06/06 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 1997/1013
  • OJ L 148 06.06.1997, p. 0001
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• 1997/06/02 Council Meeting
• 1997/06/02 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1997/06/02 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• #2001
• 1997/04/24 Council Meeting
  • 2001
• 1997/04/24 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0206/1997 summary

    Parliament adopted without report, by 219 votes to 171 with 16 abstentions, the proposal for a Regulation on aid to certain shipyards under restructuring, with a few amendments by the Socialist Group. As the OECD Shipbuilding Agreement has not yet come into force, Parliament considers that this situation should not continue beyond a reasonable limit and sets 28 May as the date after which the Agreement should be considered void if it has still not been ratified. It considers that the draft OECD Agreement on aid to shipbuilding is cancelled by granting the planned aid and that approval of this aid would severely distort the European market. It asks that there should be no new injection of capital beyond the restructuring aid envisaged under the Regulation. It hopes that State aid will not be granted as aid to employment but will be exclusively concerned with restructuring costs. It hopes that before 31 December 1999 the Commission will propose to the Council a new industrial policy providing sufficient guarantees to European shipbuilding. �

• 1997/04/22 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 1997/04/11 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1997/03/19 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1997)0132 summary

    OBJECTIVE: to amend, by updating it, Regulation 309/95/EC in order to enable the Commission to authorize aid programmes for certain shipyards under restructuring. SUBSTANCE: the Commission may declare additional operating aid compatible with the common market for the specific purposes and up to the amounts specified. The following may be considered compatible with the common market: - in the territory of the former GDR, operating aid for the period from 1 March 1996 to 31 December 1998 in favour of MTW-Schiffswerft and Volkswerft Stralsund up to a total amount of DM 333 m. and DM 395 m. respectively; - aid in the form of waiver of debts of 'Hellenic shipyards' up to the amount of GDR 54 525 billion, corresponding to debts related to civil work of the yard, as existing on 31 December 1991 and accrued by interest rates and penalties until 31 January 1996; - aid for the restructuring of the publicly-owned shipyards in Spain up to an amount of Ptas 135 028 billion. The notification must be complemented by a programme for the monitoring of the actual use of the investment and operating aid, compliance with the restructuring plan and enforcement of capacity limitations which is acceptable to the Commission. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1997)0132
• Debate in Council: 2001
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0206/1997
• : Regulation 1997/1013
• : OJ L 148 06.06.1997, p. 0001

History

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