No L 57/26 Official Journal of the European Communities 10. 3. 93 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 23 December 1992 on financial measures by Spain in respect of the coal industry in 1991, 1992 and (Only the Spanish text is authentic) (93/145/ECSC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, Having regard to Commission Decision No 2064/86/ ECSC of 30 June 1986 establishing the Community rules for State aid to the coal industry ('), and in particular Articles 2 (1) and 10 thereof, Whereas : By letter of 10 February 1992, the Spanish Government informed the Commission, pursuant to Decision 91/3/ ECSC (3, of its plan to reduce aid to cover the operating losses up to 31 December 1993 of the undertakings Hunosa, Minas de Fiaredo and Mina de la Camocha, as part of a plan to restructure, rationalize and modernize the Spanish coal industry. By letter of 16 November 1992 the Spanish Government also provided the Commission, in response to its request of 25 February 1992, with additional information, as well as informing it of the financial measures it intends to take in respect of the coal industry in 1991, 1992 and 1993. () OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1986, p. 1. () OJ No L §, 8. 1. 1991, p. 2. Under Decision No 2064/86/ECSC, the Commission must give a ruling on the following financial measures in respect of Hunosa, Minas de Figaredo and Mina de la Camocha : ' — aid to cover operating losses totalling Pta 50 034 million in 1991, Pta 50 034 million in 1992 and Pta 49 978 million in 1993, — aid totalling Pta 14 348 million for 1992 for the constitution of a provision to cover social expenditure to be paid out to workers made redundant and other exceptional costs following measures to restructure, rationalize and modernize these undertakings, — aid totalling Pta 8 734 million for 1992 for the consti- tution of a provision to defray the specific deprecia- tion costs of fixed assets in connection with pit closures arising from measures to restructure, ration- alize and modernize these undertakings. II The undertakings Hunosa, Minas de Figaredo and Mina de la Camocha are located in the central Asturias coal- field ; they work a difficult seam with high production costs. Their operating losses are covered partly by the general State budget in the form of contracts which these undertakings have signed with the State. The increase in aid in recent years caused the Commis- sion to check whether Decision No 2064/86/ECSC was being complied with.