As the Executive Board members are appointed in a staggered approach, this allows reviewing the allocation of reporting lines from time to time.

These initiatives are not integrated into a more comprehensive, tiered strategy that clearly shows how the new ‘Beyond GDP’ approach can be used.

The common spectrum management plan at Community level should be phased in with sufficient flexibility to accommodate these national specificities.

Member States have the possibility to more efficiently amortize their long term investments, which are absolutely necessary for special infrastructure.

Parliament, the Council and the Commission recognise the Commission's responsibility for implementing the Community budget (Section III) and agree that its implementation should, as far as is possible, be spread out evenly over the year and that, in particular, a pile-up of implementation operations at the end of the year must be prevented.

(16) A single contract involving successive operations or separate operations of the same nature performed over time may be subject to different legal treatment in the different Member States, but it is important that this Directive be applied in the same way in all the Member States. To that end, it is appropriate that this Directive should be considered to apply to the first of a series of successive operations or separate operations of the same nature performed over time which may be considered as forming a whole, irrespective of whether that operation or series of operations is the subject of a single contract or several successive c ...[+++]ontracts.