27. 10.°92 No L 310/29 , Official Journal of the European Communities (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 30 September 1992 ruling on financial aid by Germany to the coal industry in 1992 (Only the German text is authentic) (92/506/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 Community rules for State aid to the coal industry ('), Whereas : In a letter dated 8 January 1992, the German Govern- ment informed the Commission, pursuant to Article 9 (2) of Decision No 2064/86/ECSC, of the financial measures it intends to take in order to support the coal industry in 1992. In a letter dated 25 June 1992, it supplied add- itional information in response to the Commission’s letter dated 24 February 1992. Under Decision No 2064/86/ECSC, the Commission must give a ruling on the following financial measures submitted to it for approval: — aid totalling DM 3 293 million for the delivery of coal and coke to the Community steel industry; — aid totalling DM 133 million under a scheme for maintaining the underground labour force in deep mines (Bergmannsprdmie), () OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1986, p. 1. The measures which the German Government intends to take to support the coal industry comply with the prov- isions of Article 1 (1) of Decision No 2064/86/ECSC. The Commission must therefore give a ruling under Article 10 of the Decision as to whether they comply with the objectives and criteria set out in that Decision and whether they are compatible with the proper functioning of the common market. II In accordance with Articles 4 and 12 of the Decision, coal undertakings are authorized, where necessary, to grant rebates on their list prices or production costs for deliv- eries of coking coal, coke and coal for injection into blast furnaces in the Community steel industry under long- term contracts. These rebates must not cause the delivered prices of Community coal and coke to work out lower than those which would be charged for coal from non- member countries and coke made from coking coal from non-member countries. ' The German Government has brought to the Commis- sion’s attention the new principles underlying the system of aid for the delivery of coal and coke to the Community steel industry for the three-year period from 1 January 1992 to 31 December 1994 ; these principles introduce a degree of cost pressure on coking-coal production ; to this end, the German Government has placed a ceiling on the amount of aid for the period in question, and has intro- duced a financial contribution to be paid by the industry. In its notification, the German Government recognized