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"Mr President, I shall concentrate in particular upon the remarks on the ECSC’s operating budget, in which context I shall talk about the report issued by Mr Seppänen on behalf of the Committee on Budgets. We are pleased about the role played by the ECSC as a pioneer in the European integration process and about the way in which the ECSC has made a positive contribution to peace in Europe. We note that the ECSC was financed by means of revenue of a fiscal nature which facilitated the development of economic and social intervention measures associated with sectoral industrial policies. At present, the coal and steel sector employs 357 000 workers and, as we enlarge the EU by means of the candidate countries, enlargement will mean that coal production in the EU will be doubled and that steel production will be increased by a third. We can note with pride that, thanks to the ECSC, something was constructed and further developed that led to the European Union as we know it today. The Committee has approved the Commission’s draft operating budget of EUR 151.8 million in 2002, and it is of course on 23 July 2002 that the ECSC Treaty expires. We might have wished that, when it came to both operations and research, there had been a little more money for future energy needs relating to clean coal technologies, and we call upon the Commission to take account of this in the other programmes."@en1
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