No L 102/42 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 4. 96 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 7 February 1996 concerning additional financial aid by the United Kingdom in respect of the coal industry in the 1995/96 financial year (Only the English text is authentic) (96/274/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 3632/93/ ECSC of 28 December 1993 establishing Community rules for State aid to the coal industry (), Having regard to Decision 94/995/ECSC of 3 November 1994 ruling on financial measures by the United Kingdom in respect of the coal industry in the 1994/95 and 1995/96 financial years (%), Whereas: In a letter dated 7 November 1995 the United Kingdom notified the Commission, purusant to Article 9 (1) of Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, of further financial aid which it intends to grant to the coal industry in the 1995/96 financial year in addition to the aid authorized by Decision 94/995/ECSC, and of a technical change concerning the allocation of one of the forms of aid authorized by the same Decision. The measures which the United Kingdom intends to take in respect of the coal industry fall within the scope of Article 1 (1) of Decision No 3632/93/ECSC. The Commission must therefore give a ruling pursuant to Article 9 (4) of the Decision on whether they comply with the objectives and criteria set out in the Decision and are compatible with the proper functioning of the common market. o L 329, 30. 12. 1993, p. 12. o L 379, 31. 12. 1994, p. 6. zz II By Decision 94/995/ECSC the Commission, applying the criteria set out in Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, authorized the United Kingdom to grant various aids for the 1995/96 financial year, notably: — aid not exceeding £ 130 million to the Coal Authority, a public-sector body, to cover liabilities for environ- mental and physical damage caused by coal produc- tion activities before the privatization of the British Coal Corporation, — aid not exceeding £ 30 million for the 1995/96 finan- cial year to cover compensation for industrial injury and damage to health suffered by workers and former workers of the British Coal Corporation during that part of their employment in the Corporation between 1947 and the date of privatization of the Corporation, — aid not exceeding £ 1 million for the 1995/96 finan- cial year for concessionary fuel entitlement to coal or smokeless fuel or, in certain cases, cash-in-lieu to British Coal Corporation workers who have retired or been made redundant as a result of the restructuring, rationalization and modernization of the coal industry in the United Kingdom, and their dependants, for that part of their employment in the Corporation falling between 31 March 1990 and the date of privati- zation of the Corporation. III The notification of 7 November 1995 advised that certain aid authorized by Decision 94/995/ECSC for payment in 1994/95 had been transferred to 1995/96; this transfer requires no further authorization.