Traduction de «époque du frai » (Français → Anglais) :

23. Notes that in its response following the hearing of 25 January 2010, the Director at that time announced to the members of the Committee on Budgetary Control that funds had been recovered; remarks, however, that GBP 2 320.77 on transport costs and taxis for 2007 seems not to have been recovered yet;

– (HU) I remember very well when we set up this Globalisation Fund, and even back then, there was a great deal of debate about how it would not be a good idea if, instead of mitigating the losses, the aid paid from the fund helped workers who had been made redundant to re-integrate into the labour market, thereby encouraging, as it were, companies to conveniently take advantage of the relocation facility so that the fund covers the losing parties’ costs.

Instead of coping with a growing supply in the face of a stagnating demand for bulk commodities, we are now faced with a growing demand for high value products (especially for cheese and fresh dairy products) internally and externally, high prices and a subsequent decrease in the role of intervention as an outlet for butter and skimmed milk powder.

9. In accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 13(1) of the Rules Governing the Payment of Expenses and Allowances, as applicable at the material time, ‘Members shall be entitled to a monthly lump sum allowance at the rate currently fixed by the Bureau to meet expenditure resulting from their activities in their capacity as Members not covered by other allowances under these Rules (hereinafter referred to as the “general expenditure allowance”)’.

Of course all these measures cannot simply be decreed, they entail scientific studies and reports. This is where the reform of the CFP should have begun, in order to obtain more information on resources and set an example of responsible fishing to the world, by creating specific scientific programmes for the various species, classified by geographical areas of the sea, in order to evaluate on a permanent basis the state of stocks and their biological evolution, learn about their spawning areas and seasons, which particularly require protection, promote research and training and oceanographic research projects using our own vessels and th ...[+++]e enormous resources we have available under the EU's RD programmes, and winning the battle against public opinion, which because of either bias or the simplistic influence of the media, considers fishing and fishermen as merely predatory.

The statute we are examining today mainly took shape under the Belgian Presidency in the second half of 2001. Parliament and the Council were very close to an agreement at that time, but the stumbling block proved to be the reimbursement of actual expenses and tax liability.