nominal stress | stress

fracture load

unitised cargo carrier | unitized cargo carrier | unit load vessel | unitised ship | unitized ship

palletized load [ palletized unit load | pallet load ]

ultimate tensile strength

palletized unit load | palletised unit load | palletized load

change of gauge

7.2.5.1.2.1. The tension shall be increased until the strap breaks and the breaking load noted.

69. Voices its support for the measures taken to organise the management of the termination of the contracts of some 1 700 APAs in preparation for the end of the seventh parliamentary term and the beginning of the eighth parliamentary term, and in particular the implementation of APA-People; considers, however, that more administrative staff should have been assigned to APA recruitment in certain areas to ensure greater speed and efficiency; points out that staffing and technical resources were insufficient to avoid delays in the signing of contracts of assistants, interruption of contracts, and delays in the payment of expenses, allowances and hence salaries; acknowledges, nevertheless, that the process has improved significantly compar ...[+++]ed to 2009, while also noting that Parliament must persevere in its efforts to improve the speed and efficiency of its recruitment procedures; is concerned that no solution has been found for APAs whose rights have been undermined following the shortening of their contracts by at least one month as a result of early elections to Parliament; stresses the need to bring legislation regarding pension eligibility periods into line with the changes affecting the real parliamentary term;

33. Regards it as essential, as part of a results-based approach, that a reasonable number of simple qualitative and/or quantitative indicators should be incorporated into the ex ante and ex post assessments of all IFIs, both as regards the financial performance of the instrument and as regards its contribution to achieving the Union’s objectives; takes the view that this requirement must not serve to impose an excessive administrative burden on project managers; emphasises, in this respect, the break in continuity in the use of an innovative IFI that may ensue from its requisite ex post assessment;

In It is therefore of particular importance that customs authorities ensure that any measures taken up by them are in line with regard to the Union's international commitments and its development cooperation policy under Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and do not detain or suspend the release of generic medicines the passage of which across this the territory of the European Union, with or without transshipment, warehousing, breaking bulk, or changes in the mode or means of transport, is only a portion of a complete journey beginning and terminating beyond the territory of the Union, customs authoritie ...[+++]s should, when assessing a risk of infringement of intellectual property rights, take account of any substantial likelihood of diversion of these goods onto the market of where there is no clear and convincing evidence that they are intended for sale in the Union.