notes, moreover, that the Court of Auditors questioned whether a economic alternative could have been sought from the budgetary authority in accordance with the principle of sound financial management and ensuring full respect of the Financial Regulation;

Italy also argues that the Palermo yard has in the past (1996-97) carried out production plans than the one envisaged in 2000.

The situation was aggravated by strong pressure on prices due to the weakening of the US dollar exchange rate, which made producers outside the euro area competitive.

Although flow-through test regimes are to be preferred, semi-static regimes are permissible, provided that the validity criteria are satisfied.

The Commission shall not adopt provisions pursuant to paragraph 1 that are onerous for Member States to comply with than provisions of acts adopted pursuant to Article 3(3) and Article 4(2) of Decision No 280/2004/EC.

As regards other emergency preparation measures and staff training obligations imposed on Tieliikelaitos the Commission has not been provided with sufficient information to exclude that, as is claimed by the complainants, they are not burdensome than the risk management measures its competitors are carrying out (all undertakings must prepare for emergency conditions, it being a part of all undertakings’ risk management system).

Those rules place on them administrative burdens which are disproportionate to their size and are, therefore, relatively onerous for micro-undertakings as compared to other small undertakings.

In the meantime, Korea introduced a new legislation on cosmetics regulating the manufacturing, distribution and sale of cosmetics and creating a new category of cosmetic products (functional cosmetics) for which burdensome procedures were established as compared to ‘ordinary cosmetics’.

In this particular case, as described in recital 10, the differentiated rates were subject to an investigation by the Commission, which found that they were in breach of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 and Article 56 of the Treaty on the freedom to provide services, since the differentiation imposed onerous conditions on the operation of intra-Union air services than those imposed on domestic services.

Since taking over the statutory personnel of the Régie des Postes in 1992, the DPLP management has recognised that these staff, with their significantly higher payroll costs and operational rigidities, represented a structural handicap that was increasingly difficult to bear as postal market liberalisation progressed.

The upward trend of the prices of imports declared as originating in the PRC reflects the growing weight of expensive product types subject to an MIP (RBM with 17 and 23 rings) than a genuine price increase.

It is preferable to speak on the basis of properly structured notes.

It is therefore preferable that, whenever possible, contracting authorities should verify such information by accessing relevant databases, which should be national in the sense of being administered by public authorities.

Given the variability of situations regarding both freshwater and marine environments throughout the Community it is preferable that adequate separation distances are set at Member States level, as Member States are best equipped to deal with separation given the heterogeneous nature of such aquatic environments.

Is convinced that the above mentioned declarations, in combination with the introduction of self-critical deliberation in the Council, which is lacking until now, and an even-handed and honest and open peer review among Member States would result in better and more effective budget execution, increase the performance of policies, programmes and projects and which will help to reinforce the solidarity between Member-States and replace mutual distrust, a result which is preferable to budget cuts to the detriment of economic recovery and the trust of the Union citizens in a common Europe;

Two to four fold intervals are frequently optimal for setting the descending dose levels and addition of a fourth test group is often preferable to using very large intervals (e.g. more than a factor of 10) between dosages.

Two to three intervals are frequently optimum and addition of a fourth test group is often preferable to using large intervals (e.g. more than a factor of 10) between dosages.

Two- to four-fold intervals are frequently optimal for setting the descending dose levels, and the addition of a fourth test group is often preferable to using very large intervals (e.g. more than a factor of 10) between dosages.

If data from the acute study or other studies (e.g. toxicokinetics) indicate that other times of killing after final dosing are preferable then these times should be used and the rationale documented.

Governments may therefore consider it desirable to progress with moderation towards integrating the full price of pollution into certain production processes.