In regard to Senator Hays' second question on basing government payments on producers' gross rather than net income, federal officials are currently looking at options for separate income stabilization and disaster programs.

(i) sell only diamonds purchased from legitimate sources in compliance with the provisions of relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions and of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme and guarantee in writing on the invoice accompanying each sale of rough diamonds that, on the basis of their personal knowledge and/or written warranties provided by the supplier of such rough diamonds, the rough diamonds sold are therefore not conflict diamonds;

(30) Examination of supplies to port refineries throughout the Community, suggests that special priority access should be given to raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States party to Protocol No 3 and India, under special agreements negotiated between the Community and the countries referred to in Protocol No 3 and/or other countries and based on an estimate of the Community's requirements once all available raw cane and beet sugar in the Community, preferential raw sugar and raw sugar originating in countries benefiting from tariff ...[+++] quotas under trade concessions granted by the Community have been refined.

Those quantities are to be determined within the limits of the traditional presumed maximum requirements referred to above on the basis of forecast supply balances once all available raw cane and beet sugar of Community origin and preferential raw sugar and raw sugar originating in countries benefiting from tariff quotas under trade concessions granted by the Community have been refined.

The inclusion of Gross National Product among the bases for the assessment of member states contributions to the Community budget implies better comparability of national data, particular attention to the hidden economy and a greater weight to reliability and accuracy.

(a) where, under the legislation of a Member State, benefits are calculated on the basis of an average wage or salary, an average contribution, an average increase or on the ratio which existed, during the insurance periods, between the claimant's gross wage or salary and the average gross wage or salary of all insured persons other than apprentices, such average figures or ratios shall be determined by the competent institution of that State solely on the basis of the insurance periods completed under the legislation of the said State, or the gross wage or salary received by the person concerned during those periods only;