36. Considers that joint processing could constitute a valuable tool for solidarity and responsibility-sharing in various cases, in particular where Member States face significant or sudden influxes of asylum seekers or there is a substantial backlog of applications which delays and undermines the asylum procedure at the expense of asylum applicants; joint processing could prevent or rectify capacity problems, reduce the burdens and costs related to asylum processing, expedite the processing time of claims and ensure a more equitable sharing of responsibility for the processing of asylum applications; emphasises that joint processing require ...[+++]s a clear allocation of responsibilities between the Member States involved in order to avoid responsibility-shifting, and that decision-making remains the responsibility of the Member State; notes that this would need to be complemented by a system to ensure a more equitable sharing of responsibility once applications are processed;

An aid measure which aims to reduce the current social security costs of France Télécom, assumed at a time when the bulk of its activities were covered by a monopoly and the provision of a service did not require efficient economic behaviour, may contribute, in a different competitive environment, to improving the way in which the services formerly covered by the monopoly are supplied, provided that the allocation of the financial resources by the competing undertakings to their respective social security costs does not introduce any ...[+++]bias in a merit-based competition process.

‘Process-oriented principles’ include cost-effectiveness, bottom-up policy design, clear allocation of responsibilities, and review and sunset clauses.

Those strategies, policies, processes and systems shall be tailored to business lines, currencies and entities and shall include adequate allocation mechanisms of liquidity costs, benefits and risks’.

for costs of transport, processing or public storage and for amounts allocated to studies or promotional measures as part of a tendering procedure, the final day for the submission of tenders;

WHEREAS ARTICLE 3 OF COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) N 748/68 ( 4 ) OF 18 JUNE 1968 ON GENERAL RULES FOR CARRYING FORWARD PART OF ONE YEAR'S SUGAR PRODUCTION TO THE FOLLOWING MARKETING YEAR REQUIRES SUGAR MANUFACTURERS TO PAY THE PRICE REFERRED TO IN THE FIRST INDENT OF ARTICLE 4 ( 1 ) OF REGULATION N 1009/67/EEC FOR THE PROCESSED BEET CORRESPONDING TO THE QUANTITY OF SUGAR CARRIED FORWARD , SUBJECT TO REIMBURSEMENT OF PART OF THE STORAGE COSTS IN RESPECT OF THE SUGAR CARRIED FORWARD ; WHEREAS , GIVEN THE TECHNICAL NATURE OF SUCH OPERATIONS , THE CONVERSION OF THE QUANTITY OF SUGAR CARRIED FORWARD INTO BEET AND THE ALLOCATION OF THAT BEET AMONG THE BEET GROWERS CONCERNED SHOULD BE REGULATED BY THE INTER-TRADE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1 ...[+++]( 1 ) OF REGULATION ( EEC ) N 748/68 ;