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Document 32013D0046(01)

2013/796/EU: Decision of the European Central Bank of 6 December 2013 on the approval of the volume of coin issuance in 2014 (ECB/2013/46)

OJ L 349, 21.12.2013, p. 109–109 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

Legal status of the document In force: This act has been changed. Current consolidated version: 29/11/2014

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2013/796/oj

21.12.2013   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 349/109


DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

of 6 December 2013

on the approval of the volume of coin issuance in 2014

(ECB/2013/46)

(2013/796/EU)

THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 128(2) and Article 140(2) thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 2013/387/EU of 9 July 2013 on the adoption by Latvia of the euro on 1 January 2014 (1), and in particular Article 1 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

The European Central Bank (ECB) has the exclusive right from 1 January 1999 to approve the volume of coins issued by the Member States whose currency is the euro.

(2)

The derogation in favour of Latvia referred to in Article 4 of the 2003 Act of Accession has been abrogated with effect from 1 January 2014.

(3)

The 17 Member States whose currency is the euro and Latvia have submitted to the ECB for approval their estimates of the volume of euro coins to be issued in 2014, supplemented by explanatory notes on the forecasting methodology,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Approval of the volume of euro coins to be issued in 2014

The ECB hereby approves the volume of euro coins to be issued by the Member States whose currency is the euro in 2014 as described in the following table:

(EUR million)

 

Issuance of coins intended for circulation and issuance of collector coins (not intended for circulation) in 2014

Belgium

24,925

Germany

655

Estonia

11,14

Ireland

48,96

Greece

6,856

Spain

201,24

France

267

Italy

58,36

Cyprus

5,1

Luxembourg

45

Malta

10,04

Netherlands

97,5

Latvia

80,91

Austria

247

Portugal

20,4

Slovenia

12

Slovakia

21,4

Finland

60

Article 2

Final provision

This Decision is addressed to the Member States whose currency is the euro and Latvia.

Done at Frankfurt am Main, 6 December 2013.

The President of the ECB

Mario DRAGHI


(1)   OJ L 195, 18.7.2013, p. 24.


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