8. If recovery has not taken place prior to the closure of a rural development programme, the financial consequences of non-recovery shall be borne by the Member State concerned and shall be taken into account either at the end of the period of four years following the first administrative or judicial finding or eight years where recovery action is taken in the national courts, or on the closure of the programme if those deadlines expire prior to such closure".

2. Notwithstanding the results of any audits performed by the Commission or the European Court of Auditors, the final balance paid by the Commission for the operational programme may be amended within nine months of the date on which it is paid or, where there is a negative balance to be reimbursed by the beneficiary country, within nine months of the date on which the recovery order is issued.

12. Notes that for years the Chinese banking system has been growing rapidly; that this has been accompanied by a gradual opening of the banking and financial sector to foreign interests; that this is taking place in accordance with the basic principles of the WTO Agreement and the transitional periods granted to China when it joined the WTO; that many Chinese commercial banks have already been authorised to work with foreign lenders; that, finally, more than 400 international banks and financial institutions have opened branches or representations in China; calls on China to continue this process, further to relax the remaining restrictions on foreign ...[+++]banks as regards customer transactions, areas of business and regional activities and ultimately to dismantle them altogether in order to create greater scope for development for foreign banks or banks with foreign capital participation; calls on China, furthermore, to allow all foreign or mixed banks to conduct customer transactions in the Renminbi, and, in the near future to lift all restrictions on Renminbi transactions by foreign banks throughout China; calls on China, furthermore, in addition to relaxing market access rules for foreign or mixed banks implemented introduced so far, also to relax controls on external financial institutions and, in this connection, to reduce the capital requirements for the establishment of foreign financial institutions from the present excessively high level so as to allow these undertakings effective market access;

they must keep such records and accounts as are necessary to enable them at any time and without delay to distinguish assets held for one client from assets held for any other client, and from their own assets.

In determining what constitutes the provision of information in good time before a time specified in this Directive, an investment firm should take into account, having regard to the urgency of the situation and the time necessary for the client to absorb and react to the specific information provided, the client's need for sufficient time to read and understand it before taking an investment decision.

8. If recovery has not taken place prior to the closure of a rural development programme, 50 % of the financial consequences of non-recovery shall be borne by the Member State concerned and 50 % by the Community budget and shall be taken into account either at the end of the period of four years following the first administrative or judicial finding or eight years where recovery action is taken in the national courts, or on the closure of the programme if those deadlines expire prior to such closure.