The answer is buried in the fundamental economic benefits of a low- friction distributed peer-to-peer network.

Those weights allow them to take account of a possible non-response bias in the voluntary surveys.

I don't have a clear answer as to whether there was a change in the regulations that made positive void coefficients untenable in new reactors or whether there really is an operational problem.

6. Notes the remarks by the Court of Auditors that the rules applying to the emoluments of Members of the Institutions do not provide a specific legal basis for the application of weightings when transferring part of these emoluments to a country other than the country of employment; considers that despite the Court of Justice's reply regarding the conclusions of its administrative committee meeting on 25 September 2002 (referring inter alia to Annex VII to the Staff Regulations) , the existence of a specific legal basis is necessary, in particular in view of enlargement, and asks the Court of Justice to initiate the necessary studies i ...[+++]n order that a legal basis should be available for the 2004 budgetary exercise at the latest so as to permit the harmonisation of the rules governing the transfer of the emoluments of Members of the different Institutions to their countries of origin; requests the Court of Justice to reconsider, until a specific legal basis is available, the need to suspend the application of these weightings;

6. Notes the remarks by the Court of Auditors that the rules applying to the emoluments of members of the Institutions do not provide a specific legal basis for the application of weightings when transferring part of these emoluments to a country different from that of employment; considers that despite the Court of Justice's reply regarding the conclusions of its administrative committee meeting on 25 September 2002 (referring inter alia to Annex VII to the Staff Regulations), the existence of a specific legal basis is necessary, in particular in view of enlargement and asks the Court of Justice to start the necessary studies in order ...[+++]that a legal basis is available for the 2004 budgetary exercise at the latest so as to allow the harmonisation of the rules that govern the transfer of the emoluments of Members of the different Institutions to their countries of origin; requests the Court of Justice that, until a specific legal basis is available, it re-consider the need to suspend the application of these weightings;

Whenever it is decided that a local unit should be withdrawn from the sample (owing to non-response, coverage error, post-stratification etc.), the grossing-up factor 5.1 needs to be recalculated to take account of the local units excluded.