The price pf pit coal may be put up by 20 per cent of the subsidy is abrogated next year, National Pit Coal Company (CNH) General Manager Constantin Jujan stated yesterday, according to Mediafax. He added a decision was expected from the European Commission by the end of June – beginning of July on whether or not pit coal subsidies currently awarded to all EU companies in the industry would be preserved. ‘Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland are strongly lobbying the EC to keep on the subsidy’, Jujan added. CNH is the biggest state budget debtor with a total balance of RON 4.1 bln (EUR 985 M). The state-owned company’s commercial debt is also of RON 40 M (EUR 9.6 M). The Government has passed a decision to grant CNH – company controlled by the state via the Ministry of Economy – total subsidies of RON 245.6 M (approximately EUR 60 M).