take action to improve the performance of the scheme, including developing economic expertise, carrying out economic analyses, disseminating economic information on the scheme and providing advice to producers;

He is accompanied by his officials, including Mostafa Askari, assistant parliamentary budget officer for economic and fiscal analysis; Sahir Khan, assistant parliamentary budget officer for expenditure and revenue analysis; also, I believe Ashutosh Rajekar, financial advisor, will be here as well.

For those purposes, the Authority shall contribute to ensuring the consistent, efficient and effective application of the acts referred to in paragraph 2, foster supervisory convergence, provide opinions to the European Parliament, the Council, and the Commission and undertake economic analyses of the markets to promote the achievement of the Authority’s objective.

With me, I have Mr. Sahir Khan, our assistant parliamentary budget officer for revenue and expenditure analysis, and Mostafa Askari, the assistant parliamentary budget officer for the economic and fiscal situation and fiscal outlook. As well, our senior economist is Chris Matier, for economic and fiscal outlook as well.

Permit me to say that the commission does an economic analysis and it does a health and safety analysis.

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