The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules the transfer of radioactive waste liabilities to a new public fund in return for the payment of about €24.1 billion by nuclear power plant operators.

(e) prescribing the extent to which and the circumstances under which any period of service of a person, whether before or after March 1, 1960, for which no pay was authorized to be paid or for which any forfeiture of pay or deduction from pay in respect of a period of suspension from duty was authorized to be made shall be counted as pensionable service for the purposes of this Act, prescribing the pay that is deemed to have been authorized to be paid to that person and to have been received by that person during that period, and prescribing, despite section 5, the contributions to be made by that person to the Superannuation Account or ...[+++] the Canadian Forces Pension Fund in respect of that pay;

The European Commission had already concluded on 10 January 2017 that France's proposal to grant aid to Areva in the form of a capital injection of EUR 4.5 billion was in line with EU state aid rules, specifying that payment of the aid was subject to certain conditions, including authorisation of this transaction under EU merger rules.

The European Commission, on behalf of the EU, has today adopted the decision to release the second tranche of Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) to Ukraine, a loan which amounts to €600 million.

The Commission may authorise the Member State to couple the refunding of the aid with the payment of rescue aid to the firm concerned.

The table to be included in this section shall contain the following columns: ‘repayment schedule’ (e.g. month 1, month 2, month 3), ‘amount of the instalment’, ‘interest to be paid per instalment’, ‘other costs included in the instalment’ (where relevant), ‘capital repaid per instalment’ and ‘outstanding capital after each instalment’.