Furthermore, there is nothing to stop the amount of the levy from being passed on in the price for the reproduction or the copying service, so that ultimately the private users bear the burden and the ‘fair balance’ requirement is respected.

impact of a derailed train on the tunnel structure: according to expert judgment, the impact of a derailed train will not be sufficient to reduce the load carrying capacity of the tunnel structure.

Corrections are based on the principle whereby any Member State sustaining a budgetary burden which is excessive in relation to its relative prosperity is likely to benefit from a correction when the time comes.

welcomes the progress made both at Member States and EU level towards reducing administrative burdens in the EU, including through measurement, as part of the wider better regulation agenda and the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs; encourages the Member States that have not yet done so to set their own national targets of comparable ambition to the European-level target within their spheres of competence by 2008, taking into account the different starting points and traditions, in line with the invitation of the 2007 European Council; encourages the Commission to present proposals in order to reduce administrative burdens at EU leve ...[+++]l, while safeguarding the wider objectives and benefits of legislation and regulation, in parallel with the measurement exercise and in line with the Action Plan for Reducing Administrative Burdens in the EU and to develop the impact analysis of the reduction of administrative burdens. calls on the Commission to ensure that the needs of SMEs and newly created enterprises, on which regulation and administrative burden may weigh disproportionately heavily, are fully considered in the context of the better regulation agenda and the reduction of administrative burdens; invites the Commission, in consultation with the Member States, the European Parliament and all other relevant stakeholders, in the context of the forthcoming Strategic Review of Better Regulation in early 2008, to review how the existing better regulation tools, including the analysis of administrative costs in impact assessments, are effectively applied in practice across the board by the Commission, Council and Member States to new proposals and existing legislation, especially those which are relevant to the internal market, and whether there could be scope for further improvements in their quality.

The initiative is based on a commitment by the international financial community to bring down a country's debt burden to a sustainable level, provided that the country completes a period of strong economic policy performance.

On the "revenue" side, the Council agreed to: - the entering of the surplus available from the previous financial year as proposed by the Commission (the figure for the estimated surplus from 1994 was updated by the Commission on 2 March 1995, bringing it to ECU 6 589 million); - the amount requested by the Commission in respect of the foreseeable refund to the Member States under the 3rd and 4th resources, following the overvaluation of the VAT and GNP bases for 1994 (the Commission put the total refund at ECU 1 923 million); - the entry of three headings by way of "guarantees" - R-8291 (Ukraine), R-8292 (Belarus) and R-834 (South Afr ...[+++]ica) - to enable payments from the Guarantee Fund to be taken into account.