Where after foreclosure proceedings outstanding debt remains, Member States should ensure the protection of minimum living conditions and put in place measures to facilitate repayment while avoiding long-term over-indebtedness.

Those services cover, for example, the execution of cash clearing and settlement and similar activities to facilitate settlement.

liberalisation of EU-US air services, on which significant progress has been made in recent negotiations, with the hope of reaching full agreement before the next Summit, bringing substantial consumer benefit; work on improving coordination of innovation policy and progress on several important programs involving science, technology and research and development. the Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue, in view of the global nature of financial markets and the potential gains from facilitating transatlantic capital flows; further development of the Visa Waiver Roadmap process for EU member countries not now participating in the Visa ...[+++] Waiver Programme; and measures to facilitate business and tourist travel.

Green Line Regulation : Commission welcomes Council adoption of measures that further facilitate trade across the Green Line in Cyprus

The proposal complements the recent proposal for a Regulation to facilitate seizures by customs of counterfeit goods from outside the EU (see IP/03/75).

The Commission will also press for an early adoption of the European Company Statute - and the accompanying rules on worker involvement - and implement measures aimed at facilitating its application, both legal and practical (including dissemination of information and financial support to workers' representatives).