Where a classification decision adopted in accordance with the Community procedures in force referred to in Article 11 involves a product group subject to a quantitative limit, the Commission shall, where necessary, initiate consultations without delay in accordance with Article 9, in order to reach agreement on any necessary adjustments to the corresponding quantitative limits provided for in Annex V.

Its consequences have to be dealt with and I think that the idea of the Globalisation Fund handles them in a rather smart way, because instead of using new budget funds, it uses funds that were not allocated in order to cope with these adverse consequences of globalisation.

According to Article 2 of the draft Protocol, the objective of Europol shall be, within the framework of police cooperation between the Member States pursuant to the Treaty on European Union, to improve the effectiveness and cooperation of the competent authorities in the Member States in preventing and combating serious international crime where there are factual indications or reasonable grounds for believing that an organised criminal structure is involved and two or more Member States are affected in such a way as to require a com ...[+++]mon approach by the Member States owing to the scale, significance and consequences of the offences concerned.

The Redirected Mediterranean Policy provided for : * further limited concessions for agricultural exports covered by the agreements (reduction to zero of duties within tariff quotas to be reached in 1993 instead of 1995; a 3 to 5 % annual increase in tariff quotas over the 1992-1995 period); * a renewal of the Financial Protocols with Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries[2] amounting to around 2 billion ECU (1 ECU = appox. 1.21 USD) in grants from the Community budget and European Investment Bank loans for the 1992-96 period; as well as two innovatory elements: * a special financial envelope destined to support structural adjustment operations in these ...[+++] countries (300 million ECU for the 1992-96 period); * special funds to cater for horizontal co-operation, co-operation activities of interest to all MNC (1,8 billion ECU in EIB loans as well as substantial budget funds: approx. 300-350 million ECU over the 1992-96 period) activities of a regional nature and environmental projects have priority.

6. For places of employment other than Brussels and Luxembourg, changes in the cost of living during the reference period shall be found indirectly by multiplying the joint index for Brussels by the change in the economic parity of the place of employment in question.