Welcomes the Commission’s proposal of 2 June 2010 and considers that the business model of the Credit Rating Agencies may result in a conflict of interests, given that the agencies are used to measure the financial strength of the companies that pay them, and that their model does not enable them to evaluate the macroeconomic aspects of decisions; realizes that the credit rating agencies contributed to the crisis because their incentives were set up in a harmful way largely resulting from a lack of competition; proposes that research be carried out into the reliability of a system whereby investors and savers pay for access to the info ...[+++]rmation they need;

8. Is concerned about the merger of Google and Double Click, which may result in a gatekeeper for targeted online advertising services based on the personal data of internet users; considers that effective monitoring is essential to avoid the abuse of a dominant position; calls on the Commission to propose a model in this respect;

2. The paying agencies shall transmit to the Commission, each month and each year, by electronic means, the information needed for the financing of public storage expenditure and the accounts evidencing expenditure and revenue relating to public storage in the form of tables (e-FAUDIT tables), models of which are set out in Annex III to this Regulation, within the time limits laid down in Article 4(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 883/2006 and in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 883/2006.

- the date of entry into force of an agreement between the European Community, following a unanimous decision of the Council, and the last of the Swiss Confederation, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Republic of San Marino, the Principality of Monaco and the Principality of Andorra, providing for the exchange of information upon request as defined in the OECD Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters released on 18 April 2002 (hereinafter the "OECD Model Agreement") with respect to interest payments, as defined in this Directive, made by paying agents established within their respective territories to beneficial own ...[+++]ers resident in the territory to which the Directive applies, in addition to the simultaneous application by those same countries of a withholding tax on such payments at the rate defined for the corresponding periods referred to in Article 11(1),

(6) Whereas the Community is stepping up its efforts to develop substitute methods and computer-aided simulation models, paying particular attention to the work carried out by the European Centre for the validation of alternative methods (ECVAM), so that the goal of reducing experiments on animals may be achieved in the near future;

(11) Whereas the energy efficiency measures incorporated in the most up-to-date models of refrigeration appliances available do not increase their production costs excessively and can pay for their initial cost through electricity savings within a few years or even more rapidly; whereas this calculation does not take into account the added benefit of the external costs of electricity generation thereby avoided, such as emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants;