Traduction de «Instructions concernant l'appréciation de la valeur » (Français → Anglais) :

Implementing the existing excessive deficit procedure on the basis of both the deficit criterion and the debt criterion requires a numerical benchmark, which takes into account the business cycle, against which to assess whether the ratio of the government debt to gross domestic product (GDP) is sufficiently diminishing and is approaching the reference value at a satisfactory pace.

In the absence of harmonisation at European Union level as regards gambling, it is for each Member State to determine in that area, in accordance with its own scale of values, how to protect the interests in question.

They shall identify and appraise the disparities, gaps and potential for development, the goal to be achieved, the results expected, the quantified targets, the coherence with the relevant multi-annual indicative planning documents(s), the Community value-added, the lessons drawn from the previous programming and the quality of the procedures for implementation, monitoring, evaluation and financial management.

be vigilant in its observance of Article 61(2) of the Cotonou Agreement and, in coordination with the other donors, carry out more thorough appraisal of the direction taken by public finance management in the beneficiary countries and monitor the progress of the reforms that are intended to improve it; incorporate into its Methodological Guide the relevant instructions issued since March 2002 on the programming and implementation of budgetary support for third countries, and make the necessary improvements; make use of performance indicators that genuinely encourage beneficiary countries to press ahead with their reforms and that focus ...[+++] more closely on results that reflect improvements in management; do everything within its power to complete the public financial management performance measurement framework being developed within the framework of PEFA and improve coordination between donors by taking account of the results that will be available at the end of the testing stage and of the Court's suggestions, especially the proposal concerning tests of controls; strengthen coordination between donors' local representatives as regards the production of assessments, evaluations and audits, the implementation of institutional support and the use of conditions and performance indicators; systematically structure relations with the authorities in the beneficiary States and take them beyond the government level to include parliaments and supreme audit institutions, whose powers must be strengthened to enable them to undertake the reforms that concern them and to audit those that are a matter for the executive branch".

The Commission will therefore shortly lay down the criteria which will be used to establish priorities for examining possible breaches of Community law. This will be based on the points already proposed in the White Paper on European Governance and will not limit the Commission's discretionary powers (the effectiveness and quality of transposition of directives; the compatibility of national law with the fundamental principles of Community law; cases which seriously affect the Community interest; recurrent problems associated with the implementation of a particular legislative ...[+++]instrument in a Member State; and problems relating to Community financing).

Stream Spa, Eurocast Italia Srl, Team Tv Spa and Digitaly Spa failed to notify scheduling figures for European works and recent works for 1999 and 2000, so the relevant department of the Authority is looking into whether to take steps to assess the broadcasters' failure to meet the requirements and the grounds given with a view to possible proceedings.