Commission Decision No 2537/2001/ECSC

of 21 December 2001

fixing the rate of the levies for the 2002 financial year and amending Decision No 3/52/ECSC on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the Treaty

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles 49 and 50 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) In view of the variations in average values recorded during the reference period, Article 2 of Decision No 3/52/ECSC of the High Authority(1), as last amended by Commission Decision No 2749/2000/ECSC(2) should be amended.

(2) The requirements of the European Coal and Steel Community are estimated in the operating budget for the 2002 financial year at EUR 167794520. The budget, which was adopted by the Commission on 13 December 2001 in the form shown in the Annex to this Decision, indicates the amount of income to be yielded by levies in 2002, namely EUR 0 million.

(3) The estimated yield of levies at a rate of 0,01 % is EUR 5,726 million,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The rate of the levies on output from 1 January 2002 shall be 0 % of the figures used as the basis of assessment for such levies.

Article 2

Article 2 of Decision No 3/52/ECSC is replaced by the following:

"Article 2

The average value in euro of the products on which the levies are assessed shall, from 1 January 2002, be as follows:

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Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 2002.

This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2001.

For the Commission

Michaele Schreyer

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ 1, 30.12.1952, p. 4/52.

(2) OJ L 318, 16.12.2000, p. 13.

ANNEX

ECSC OPERATING BUDGET FOR 2002

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