145. Notes with concern the low rate of utilisation of commitment appropriations for transport safety (34 %), for which via a carry-over a large part of the sum initially available in 2006 was committed in 2007, and the low rate of utilisation of payment appropriations for the Marco Polo Programme (44,8 %), and is particularly concerned by the very low rate of utilisation of payment appropriations for the pilot project on safety in the TEN-T road sector (29,6 %), in part due to the late signature of contracts and consequent late start of the project; therefore calls on the Commission to launch in future the call for proposals and tenders as ...[+++] early as possible, so as to make full use of commitment and payment appropriations;

3. Notes with concern the low rate of utilisation of commitment appropriations for transport safety (34 %), for which via a carry-over a large part of the sum initially available in 2006 was committed in 2007, and the low rate of utilisation of payment appropriations for the Marco Polo Programme (44,8 %), and is particularly concerned by the very low rate of utilisation of payment appropriations for the pilot project on safety in the TEN-T road sector (29,6 %), in part due to the late signature of contracts and consequent late start of the pilot project; therefore calls on the Commission in future to launch the call for proposals and tenders as ...[+++] early as possible to make full use of commitment and payment appropriations;

147.Notes with concern the low rate of utilisation of commitment appropriations for transport safety (34 %), for which via a carry-over a large part of the sum initially available in 2006 was committed in 2007, and the low rate of utilisation of payment appropriations for the Marco Polo Programme (44,8 %), and is particularly concerned by the very low rate of utilisation of payment appropriations for the pilot project on safety in the TEN-T road sector (29,6 %), in part due to the late signature of contracts and consequent late start of the pilot project; therefore calls on the Commission in future to launch the call for proposals and tenders as ...[+++] early as possible to make full use of commitment and payment appropriations;

They've initially announced that $500 million of it will be available as credit to non-profit housing providers to allow them to provide housing for people who otherwise couldn't get access.

Under Article 17(3) of that Regulation, this request is accepted on a pro-rata basis for those Member States that have spent their initial allocation, using the appropriations available after deducting the amounts notified in accordance with Article 16(1)(a) and (b) and corrected, where appropriate, under Article 17(1) and (3) from the total amount allocated to the Member States. This provision applies in 2004 to Spain, France, Italy, Austria and Portugal,

D. whereas the budgetary margin of manoeuvre which was based on the idea of reprogramming available Financial Instruments for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) funds has disappeared due to Council's amendments to the original Commission's reform proposals; whereas there are insufficient funds available in the FIFG to compensate communities affected by the reform of the CFP and the recovery plans,