2001/58/ECSC: Commission Decision of 20 September 2000 authorising France to grant aid to the coal industry for 2000 (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2000) 2923)
France is authorised to apply the following measures in favour of its coal industry for 2000:
- aid for the reduction of activity, amounting to FRF 2336 million, intended to cover operating losses for 2000. The Commission will take a decision on a balance of FRF 45 million at a later date;
- aid for the reduction of activity, amounting to FRF 220 million, intended to cover the interest due for 2000 on the part of the loan issue floated by Charbonnages de France in 1997, 1998, and 1999 to cover the balance of the operating losses for those years which are not covered by direct subsidies and capital injections.
- aid to cover exceptional costs for 2000 amounting to FRF 4071 million.
France shall communicate the amounts of aid actually paid under this Decision for 2000 to cover the operating losses for that year no later than 30 September 2001.
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
Done at Brussels, 20 September 2000.
For the Commission
Loyola De Palacio
Vice-President
(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1993, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 267, 9.11.1995, p. 46.
(3) tce = tonne coal equivalent.
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