No additional information needs to be generated for the assessment of PBT/vPvB properties if there is no indication of P or B properties following the result from the screening test or other information.

The Court also considered it to be discriminatory and in breach of Article 49 to include in the technical specifications evaluation criteria that reward with extra points the existence, at the time the tender is submitted, of production, conditioning and bottling plants situated either in Spain or less than 1 000 kilometres from the province in question, or offices open to the public in other specified towns in that province, and which, in the case of a tie between a number of tenders, favoured the undertaking which had previously provided the service concerned.

Our assessment will be based on a number of indicators such as: existence of an anti-corruption strategy ; state of legislation on anti-corruption strategy ; state of legislation on anti-corruption issues; evidence of effective criminal investigations leading to prosecutions.

The Council is asked to decide that from an overall assessment it follows that an excessive deficit exists in France.

– (DE) Mr President, as I see it, the problem is not so much that we provide too little money or that we would have no opportunity to do something from our side, the problem is the absorption capacity of these countries along the southern shore of the Mediterranean and the fact that, so far, we have been unable to make sure the projects are in place and the money is used for the required purpose.

In order to avoid excessive government deficits, as called for by Article 104(1) of the Treaty, the reports, prepared by the Commission according to Article 104(3) of the Treaty as a result of its monitoring, form the basis of the EFC opinion, the ensuing Commission assessment and ultimately the Council decision on the existence of an excessive deficit as well as on its recommendations, including on the deadlines for the correction of the deficit.