En l'absence d'une decision avant la fin du mois de juin 1986, date a laquelle expire le regime actuel, nous aurions du appliquer purement et simplement le Traite CECA qui, faut-il le souligner, interdit le principe d'aides publiques aux charbonnages.
If a decision had not been taken by the end of June 1986 when the current system expires, we should simply have had to apply the ECSC Treaty which, it must be stressed, forbids the very principle of State aids to the coal industry.