Traduction de «Rapport sur les paiements anticipés en trop » (Français → Anglais) :

28. Recognises the savings achieved due to the advance payments made over the last ten years on buildings; underlines that the European Parliament is now the owner of most of its buildings in the three places of work and will start to focus its investment on external offices; intends to re-examine the principle of co-sharing the external offices with the Commission on the basis of the report requested for March 2007 in paragraph 47 of its aforementioned resolution of 26 October 2006; calls, to that end, for the establishment of a commo ...[+++]n report, from the Commission and the European Parliament, on the modalities of co-sharing offices in terms of staff, logistics, running costs and the different time schedules of co-financing the purchase of joint offices; notes that this has been made possible, until now, due to the availability of appropriations in Parliament's budget;

The Commission's report COM(2008) 64 of 11 February 2008 concluded that a number of amendments to the Regulation should be proposed to address the following weaknesses identified during the review process: the need to extend the principle of equality of charges to direct debits in order to establish a level playing field between different payment instruments and avoid undermining the objectives of this Regulation by not making all electronic payment instruments operating cross-border subject to the principle of equality of charges; enforcement problems due to the absence of identified national competent authorities and of out-of-court r ...[+++]edress bodies for disputes related to the Regulation; disruption of the internal market in payments caused by divergent balance-of-payments (BoP) statistical reporting obligations and unclear scope of the article on BoP reporting.

The Commission's report COM(2008) 64 of 11 February 2008 concluded that a number of amendments to the Regulation should be proposed to address the following weaknesses identified during the review process: the need to extend the principle of equality of charges to direct debits in order to establish a level playing field between different payment instruments and avoid undermining the objectives of this Regulation by not making all electronic payment instruments operating cross-border subject to the principle of equality of charges; enforcement problems due to the absence of identified national competent authorities and of out-of-court r ...[+++]edress bodies for disputes related to the Regulation; disruption of the internal market in payments caused by divergent balance-of-payments (BoP) statistical reporting obligations and unclear scope of the article on BoP reporting.

Thus, transfer C10 put €63 705 493 for an advance repayment on the Spinelli building into Article 206 “acquisition of immovable property” taken from headings unconnected with buildings, e.g. €29 950 000 from chapter 102 “reserve for the statute for Members”, €4 200 000 from item 1870 “conference interpreters and technicians” and €4 400 000 from item 1100 “basic salaries”.

Several such money transmitters and other newcomers (e.g. telecommunication operators) have complained that meeting the requirements under a banking licence - designed for the full range of banking activities - is too expensive and burdensome for simple payment service providers and is disproportionate given the reduced risks of such an activity.

Presenting Reports from Committees Mr. Vanclief (Prince Edward Hastings), from the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, presented the 2nd Report of the Committee (Bill C-34, An Act to establish programs for the marketing of agricultural products, to repeal the Agricultural Products Board Act, the Agricultural Products Cooperative Marketing Act, the Advance Payments for Crops Act and the Prairie Grain Advance Payments Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, with amendments).