Amending ECSC operating budget 1995

The report and the proposal for a resolution were unanimously adopted. In presenting the 1995 amending draft as an instrument for demonstrating to the new Member States that ECSC activities were contributing towards research and to the development of energies and industries for the future, the report proposed: - that the special heading of administrative costs be deleted, as had already been requested by Parliament; - that the amount allocated to research aid be increased from ECU 60 m to ECU 81 m, in line with an active structural policy; - that aid for reconversion be reduced from ECU 35 m to ECU 28 m; - that headings dealing with social actions associated with restructuring be modified by reducing the steel-industry allocation from ECU 60 m to ECU 50 M and by increasing the allocation for coal-industry restructuring from ECU 38 m to ECU 42 m, considering the developments which have been taking place in the mining industry. Finally, with a view to the year 2002 and the process of phasing-in, the rapporteur recalled Parliament's proposal which was that financial resources still available from various ECSC activities should be transferred to an endowment fund. �