4. The Commodity Board is authorized in relation to the powers granted to it by section 3 with respect to the marketing of hogs in interprovincial and export trade to make orders fixing, imposing and collecting levies or charges from persons situated within the Province of Quebec who are engaged in the production or marketing of hogs and for such purpose classifying such persons into groups and fixing the levies or charges payable by the members of different groups in different amounts and the Commodity Board may use such levies or charges for its purposes, including the creation of reserves and the payment of expenses and losses resulti ...[+++]ng from the sale or disposal of hogs and the equalization or adjustment among the producers of hogs of moneys realized from the sale thereof during such period or periods of time as it may determine.

(66) The Commission should be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU in order to determine the type of contributions to the Fund and the matters for which contributions are due, the manner in which the amount of the contributions is calculated and the way in which they are to be paid; specify registration, accounting, reporting and other rules necessary to ensure that the contributions are fully and timely paid; determine the contribution system for institutions that have been authorized to operate after the Fund has reached its target level; determine the criteria for the spreading out in time of the co ...[+++]ntributions; determine the circumstances under which the payment of contributions may be advanced; determine the criteria for establishing the annual contributions; determine the measures to specify the circumstances and modalities under which an institution may be partially or entirely exempted from ex post contributions, and the measures to specify the circumstances and modalities under which an institution may be partially or entirely exempted from ex-post contributions.

Eleven actions are defined for the implementation of these two objectives, including, for the first objective, the collection, exchange and analysis of data and information, the development of assessment tools, legal and technical expertise including studies, seminars and conferences, and contributions to the functioning of European consumer organisations.

Today's Communication from Commission sets out a contribution towards practical outcomes from this Conference, at a time when negotiators are discussing the Programme of Action - the text for adoption at the conference.

The Council agreed on the principle of a macro-financial assistance of up to 40 MECU in favour of FYROM and mandated the Commission to make a statement to this end at next week's G 24 pledging conference.

I am thinking, among others, of a friend, a distinguished jurist, Philippe Kirsch, who chaired the plenipotentiary conference that led to the Rome statute, and of a number of individuals whose services were drawn on and whose hard work during preparatory conferences and the Rome conference helped bring this statute to life.