No L 379/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 31. 12. 94 COMMISSION DECISION of 3 November 1994 ruling on financial measures by the United Kiligdom in respect of the coal industry in the 1994/95 and 1995/96 financial years (Only the English text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (94/995/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 (1), and in particular Articles 2 (1) and 9 thereof, Whereas: In a letter dated 5 September 1994 the United Kingdom notified the Commission, pursuant to Article 9 (1) of Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, of the financial measures which it intends to take in respect of the coal industry in the 1994/95 and 1995/96 financial years. In a letter dated 29 September 1994 the United Kingdom also sent the additional information requested by the Commission. In accordance with Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, the Commission must give a ruling on the following financial measures: — aid not exceeding £ 40 million in the 1994/95 -financial year and £ 130 million in the 1995/96 financial year to the Coal Authority, a public-sector body, to cover liabilities for the environmental and physical damage caused by the production activities of the coal industry before the privatization of the British Coal Corporation, — aid not exceeding £ 2 million for the 1995/96 financial year to cover compensation for workers and former workers of the British Coal Corporation for hearing loss during that part of their employment in the Corporation falling between 26 March 1989 and the date of privatization of the Corporation and aid not exceeding £ 30 million for 1995/96 to cover (!} OJ No L 329, 30. 12. 1993, p. 12. compensation for other 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 falling between 1947 and the date of privatization of the Corporation, — aid not exceeding £ 1 million for the 1995/96 financial 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 privatization of the Corporation, — aid not exceeding £ 183 million for the 1995/96 financial year for contributions to pension schemes for former British Coal Corporation workers including workers granted early retirement as a result of  the  restructuring, rationalization  and modernization of the coal industry in the United Kingdom, — aid not exceeding £ 635 million for the 1994/95 financial year and £ 26 million for the 1995/96 financial year to the British Coal Corporation to cover exceptional social-welfare payments to or in respect of workers who have been made redundant or been transferred to other production units as a result - of the restructuring, rationalization  and modernization of the coal industry in the United Kingdom, — aid not exceeding £ 70 million for the 1995/96 financial year to the British Coal Corporation to cover the costs arising from residual activities prior to dissolution of the  Corporation following privatization, — a financial measure for the 1994/95 and 1995/96 financial years to the British Coal Corporation to