66/740/EEC: Council Decision of 22 December 1966 on Community aid for the Italian Republic towards the granting of assistance to sulphur mine workers affected by dismissal and of a number of scholarships for their children

• Articles: 6

Article 1

1. The Italian Republic shall be granted Community aid equal to 50 % of the expenditure actually borne in granting appropriate assistance to the workers dismissed as a result of reorganisation measures in the Italian sulphur mines, and scholarships for the vocational training of the children of such workers.

1 OJ No 80, 20.12.1969, p. 1849/60. 2 OJ No 93, 10.10.1962, p. 2384/62. 2. Community aid shall not exceed 4 200 000 units of account.

3. Only workers appearing on the payrolls of Italian sulphur mining undertakings on 30 June 1963 who were dismissed after that date may benefit from such aid.

Article 2

The Commission shall determine, in agreement with the Italian Republic, the measures governing the granting of the assistance and scholarships mentioned in Article 1.

Article 3

1. The appropriations required to provide Community aid in financing the assistance and scholarships mentioned in Article 1 shall be entered in annual instalments in the budget of the European Economic Community, in the section relating to the Commission.

2. These annual instalments shall be determined when the preliminary draft budget of the Community is considered, account being taken of the estimates of expenditure of the Italian Government for the subsequent financial year.

3. Expenditure borne by the Italian Government, 50 % of which may not have been repaid due to exhaustion of the annual instalment, shall be taken over against appropriations available in the budget for the subsequent financial year.

Article 4

The Italian Government may send each month to the Commission a statement showing the assistance granted pursuant to this Decision during the preceding month. Within the annual appropriation at its disposal, the Commission shall pay the amount of the Community's contribution to such expenditure into a special account opened for this purpose with the Central Treasury of the Italian State.

Article 5

The Commission shall inform the Council annually of the state of application of this Decision.

Article 6

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 1966.

For the Council

The President

J.M.A.H. LUNS