For the purposes of Article 25(4) to (7) and Article 26, a Member State may, on the basis of objective criteria, provide that, in cases of sale or grant or expiry of all or part of a lease of agricultural areas after the date fixed pursuant to Article 35 or Article 124(2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and before the date fixed pursuant to Article 33(1) of this Regulation, the increase, or part of the increase, in the value of payment entitlements that would be allocated to the farmer concerned is to revert to the national reserve or regional reserves where the increase would lead to a windfall profit for the farmer concerned.

Could we ask your office to study the factors that explain why Canada, rather than increasing its sales abroad, even though it has signed more agreements, has seen a drop in its foreign trade, which has consequently increased Canada's trade deficit?

Obviously, everything that went with that grew: our revenues grew and our capital expenditures grew.

The problem is that, for some of new energy efficient technologies, the market is not significant enough to allowing offsetting a greater development and production cost through increased numbers of sales.

If imports into the Community fall or if a producer buys production or sales quota from another producer in the Community, the individual producer would be allowed to increase his sales or his own use without leading to a net increase in total Community consumption.

- 3 - These figures reveal a generally favourable trend in trade - a slight reduction in the overall EEC-Japan deficit and a 20% increase in Community exports to Japan if non-monetary gold is excluded, since the Community is one of the few suppliers to have increased its sales to Japan.