Activites

• 2000/06/05 Final act published in Official Journal
• 1999/10/28 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0078/1999 summary

    The EP adopted its resolution on the draft ECSC operating budget for 2000 (Rapporteur: Mr. Giovanni PITTELLA, PES, I). The budget of the ECSC in fact expires in 2002. Parliament took the view that the total amount should be the same as in 1999, i.e. 196 million as against 178 million euros proposed by the Commission. Parliament sees the need to switch priorities with more emphasis placed on providing social aid for miners, backing research in the steel industry and supporting health and safety in mining. Members were also anxious to see the smooth transition when the funds are in fact wound up with pilot projects put in place now that could be financed at a later date from the EU's general budget. The EP welcomed the fact that the Council accepted the structure recommended by the Parliament for the management of the assets of the ECSC when the latter expires. Parliament confirmed its wish to see the management of the fund entrusted to a structure (agency or foundation) so as to maintain, vis-à-vis the coal and steel sectors, a degree of visibility and continuity of the activities specific to the ECSC which will continue after the Treaty expires, and so as to try to ensure the industry's involvement in decision-making via the governing board. The Parliament opposes the Commission's persistent approach of maintaining a high level of reserves, rather than seeking to cover the maximum of requirements, since sufficient resources exist and provisions for the future fund are already assured With a view to enlargement, the EP wants to see the EU's aid for countries from Eastern Europe through the Phare programme include an element geared towards the coal and steel sectors.�

• 1999/10/26 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1999/10/19 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0032/1999
• 1999/07/23 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1999/06/09 Council draft budget published
  • SEC(1999)0803 summary

    PURPOSE: to draw up an operational budget for the ECSC for the year 2000. CONTENT: The budgetary approach defined in this draft budget should be seen in the overall context of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty. In this way, the imposition having been put back to 0 from 01.01.1998, the budgetary approach from 1999 consists in responding in priority to the needs identified in terms of social assistance and to adapt the level of aids to research in such a way as to obtain the best possible continuity in the funding. In this regard, the evolution of the ECSC's operational budget's resources will be largely dictated by the level of internal revenues (net balance valued at 54 million euros) and by the rate of the use of the provision for funding of the ECSC's operational budget (83 million euros), and, to a lesser degree, by the cancellation of commitments (37 million euros). The drafts reveal that that provisions drawn up are sufficient to maintain, until the expiry of the Treaty, the budgetary activity at a level in line with the needs in terms of social aids and research grants identified at this stage, while respecting the objective of the level of reserves laid down by the Commission for the 23.07.2002 (expiry of the ECSC Treaty). In this context, the draft budget is broken down as follows: - 5 million euros for administrative expenses, - 92 million euros for social aids, - 81 million for research grants. The total budget for the year 2000 is 178 million euros.�

Documents

• Council draft budget published: SEC(1999)0803
• Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A5-0032/1999
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0078/1999

History

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