Traduction de «fermeture par volet » (Français → Anglais) :

The Commission introduced the following back-up measures for the restructuring plan: - a new social scheme specific to steel, with funds of 240 million ECU over a three-year term, to alleviate a proportion of the social costs arising from the closures; - financial mechanisms (Art. 53a of the ECSC Treaty), to allow undertakings to contribute jointly and severally towards covering the industrial costs of the closures; - guidelines for production and deliveries (Art. 46) to contribute towards maintaining the stability of the internal market; - external measures intended to deal with unfair imports from certain third countries.

The restructuring and modernization plan, which would involve the loss of a further 1 500 jobs, provides for a series of measures: - Plant closures . the blast furnace, which has the capacity to produce 1.8 million tonnes of pig iron, but actually produced only 700 000 tonnes in 1992; . the 0.45 million tonne capacity hot strip slitting plant, which produced 0.02 million tonnes of thin strip in 1992; - Capacity reductions and modernization . reduction of crude steel production capacity from 2.1 to 0.9 million tonnes by replacing the old steel converter with a modern electric steel furnace; . reduction of cold rolling capacity from 1.6 ...[+++]7 to 1.22 million tonnes by closing down some rolling mills; - New plant . construction of a modern hot rolling mill with a capacity of 0.9 million tonnes.

4. Social support measures: Within the budgetary resources available, the Commission will maintain the measures of the Social Scheme for Steel in order to support the social costs associated with the closures of installations which will take place before the end of 1995.

To sum up, the Commission is proposing a fund of some 600 million ECU, 70 % for closure premiums and 30 % to be added to the sums available for social measures.