80. Invites the Commission to address the shortcomings noted by the Court of Auditors in a systematic way; would like to be informed about the following:

4. If weaknesses in management or control systems or the level of irregular expenditure detected do not allow the provision of an unqualified opinion for the annual opinion referred to in paragraph 1 point (c) or in the closure declaration referred to in paragraph 1 point (d), the audit authority shall give the reasons and estimate the scale of the problem and its financial impact.

(a) where the project takes place in an area which, at the time when the aid is granted, qualifies for regional aid, the maximum aid intensity may be increased by 10 percentage points gross in areas covered by Article 87(3)(a) of the Treaty and by five percentage points gross in areas covered by Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty.

1.1.1.5". The principal radii of curvature at one point on the reflecting surface (ri )" means the values obtained with the apparatus defined in Appendix 1 to Annex II, measured on the arc of the reflecting surface passing through the centre of this surface parallel to the segment b, as defined in point 2.2.1 of Annex II and on the arc perpendicular to this segment.

3. In the cases referred to in Article 5(2) and (3), the rates of desulphurisation shall be regarded as having been complied with if the evaluation of measurements carried out pursuant to Annex VIII, point A.3, indicates that all of the calendar monthly mean values or all of the rolling monthly mean values achieve the required desulphurisation rates.

3. Is convinced that local development and employment initiatives are preconditions for lasting development which contribute not only to an improvement of the living environment in urban and rural areas but above all represent the proper framework for the creation of permanent employment opportunities and hence are an important first step in finding a solution for the EU's crisis areas which have degenerated into social exclusion and where local infrastructure has been destroyed. It is, therefore, incomprehensible that only 10% of the entire amount for the period 1994-1999 has been allocated to local development, while on the other hand, ...[+++] a large proportion of the large-scale projects promoted by considerable contributions from the Structural Funds have no more than short-term effects on employment and in some cases actually hamper or prevent the creation of jobs linked to the area; calls therefore on the Member States to introduce greater variety into their employment programmes and to include in them a chapter on local employment; calls on the Commission to support the Member States in such efforts and to insist, as being crucial to the efficient use of appropriations, on the proportion of Structural Fund allocations earmarked for local employment initiatives being raised;