No L 220/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 8. 94 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 1 June 1994 authorizing the granting of aid by Germany to the coal industry in 1994 (Only the German text is authentic) (94/573/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 ('), and in particular Articles 2 (1) and 9 thereof, Whereas : In a letter dated 28 December 1993 the German Govern- ment sent the Commission notification, pursuant to Article 9 (1) of Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, of the finan- cial support which it intended to grant to the coal industry in 1994. In letters dated 4 and 8 March 1994 Germany supplied additional information on two measures not linked to current production. Under Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, the Commission must give a ruling on the following financial measures : — aid totalling DM 179,1 million to Ruhrkohle AG to cover exceptional costs ; () OJ No L 329, 30. 12. 1993, p. 12. — aid totalling DM 170,1 million to the companies Ruhrkohle AG, Saarbergwerke AG, Gewerkschaft Auguste Viktoria, Sophia Jacoba GmbH and Preussag to cover exceptional costs. These two measures planned by Germany' comply with the provisions of Article 1 (1) of Decision No 3632/93/ ECSC. The Commission must therefore give a ruling under Article 9 of that Decision on whether they comply with the objectives and implementing criteria set out in that Decision and whether they are compatible with the proper functioning of the common market. II The aid which the German Government intends to grant to Ruhrkohle AG to cover exceptional costs is intended to cover the deficit incurred by the undertaking as a result of closures of uncompetitive production capacity between 1987 and 1993. This aid is to be used as follows: DM 19,1 million for paying social-welfare benefits resulting from workers taking early retirement and for the supply of free coal to workers who lose their jobs as a result of restucturing and to workers entitled to such supply before the restuc- turing; exceptional expenditure totalling DM 109,6 million on workers who lose their jobs as a result of