97/577/ECSC: Commission Decision of 30 April 1997 authorizing the grant by the United Kingdom of aid to the coal industry (Only the English text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)

• Articles: 4

Article 1

The United Kingdom Government is hereby authorized to take financial measures totalling £ 891 million under the following budgetary provisions:

- a provision of £ 92 million for contributions to pension schemes for former workers of the British Coal Corporation and their dependants,

- a provision of £ 24 million to cover exceptional social welfare benefits for workers who lost their jobs as a result of the restructuring, rationalization and modernization of the United Kingdom coal industry,

- a provision of £ 365 million for concessionary fuel entitlement to coal and smokeless fuel or, in certain cases, cash-in-lieu for former British Coal Corporation workers and their dependants,

- a provision of £ 177 million for compensation for industrial injury and damage to health for former workers of the British Coal Corporation and their dependants,

- a provision of £ 15 million to cover the costs from the residual activities of the British Coal Corporation,

- a provision of £ 218 million to cover the environmental damage caused by mining activities before privatization.

Article 2

The United Kingdom shall give notification by 30 September each year from 1999 to 2003 of the amount of aid actually paid in the previous financial year under the provisions referred to in Article 1 of this Decision and shall report on any changes made compared with the amounts originally notified.

Article 3

The United Kingdom shall ensure that it is reimbursed for any overestimated expenditure or cancelled expenditure on any of the items covered by this Decision.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 30 April 1997.

For the Commission

Christos PAPOUTSIS

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 329, 30. 12. 1993, p. 12.

(2) OJ No L 220, 25. 8. 1994, p. 12.