Where appropriate, they may also comprise policy related incentives to promote the achievement of the policy objectives or incentivise the financial performance of the financial instrument.

In year one, the premium will 30% higher than current levels and, to encourage uptake from year one, it will decrease over the five years of the scheme.

At the same time, the CMHC has introduced a further 15% premium reduction on affordable rental housing developed through the CMHC's partnership centre, as well as a full waiver of premiums for rental housing projects funded under the federal affordable housing initiatives which were designed to serve those in greatest need (1355) [Translation] To stimulate construction of affordable rental housing, the CMHC has also made several improvements to rental property mortgage insurance in recent months by permitting, among other things, high ...[+++] value loans in this sector; by reducing mortgage insurance premiums for rental properties; and by providing more leeway to borrowers in terms of cash flow, cash advances and conditions of repayment.

This premium must also be an incentive for sheep and goat farmers and that means EUR 30 and no less.

In the case of Portugal the range includes two main categories of aids: 1. Measures to supplement benefits received by workers who have lost their jobs; an allowance for termination of the employment contract, tide-over their allowances and their equivalents for elderly workers who retire from the labour market (early retirement pension). - 2 - 2. Measures to facilitate labour market re-integration: vocational training, wage allowance during training, higher tide-over allowance to stimulate job creation by the workers themselves, costs of presentation and analysis of job creation projects, removals allowance, compensation for any loss o ...[+++]f income in the case of redeployment.

In addition to the classical aids in this field ("tideover allowances") to supplement unemployment benefit up to 80% of the former wage, geographical mobility allowances to cover worker's removal costs, financing of vocational training and retraining programmes, compensation for any loss of income in the event of redeployment), the new Convention contains several innovations which reflect the desire shared by the Commission and the Spanish Government to provide workers with an active framework to facilitate their re-employment : labour market reintegration premium to stimulate ...[+++] the recruitment of workers from the steel industry, higher tideover allowances for workers who create their own employment, payment of lump sum ECSC aid where workers are taken on by bodies specializing in readaptation.