The corporation responded by saying, “Management agrees that access to infrastructure is key to realizing half of the benefits set out in the medium term investment plan..Management agrees with the recommendation” and “has prepared an assessment of the impact of not increasing frequency in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor.An alternative plan was developed to mitigate the impact of not realizing the benefit of additional frequencies in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor” and this “alternative plan was incorporated into the 2009-2013 corporate plan, which is currently under discussion with the representatives” of the Department of Transport.

Investment in viable alternatives to congested road corridors can support intelligent solutions involving co-modal logistics chains which optimise the use of transport infrastructure within and across the different modes.

These barriers or obstacles might have a wide range of origins, and in its decisions, the Commission has been confronted with regulatory barriers or other forms of State intervention, constraints arising in downstream markets, need to incur specific capital investment or loss in current output in order to switch to alternative inputs, the location of customers, specific investment in production process, learning and human capital investment, retooling costs or other investments, uncertainty about quality and reputation of unknown supp ...[+++]liers, and others.

The Commission's Balkans initiative falls into four parts: - Support for the Balkans Customs Corridor; - A series of short-term actions to address the most serious bottlenecks in the Balkans; - A medium-term plan to focus European Union investment on a number of "multi-modal" corridors identified by Balkan states themselves as alternatives to the trans-Yugoslav route; - Channelling further funds from the PHARE programme into the construction of roads, ferry connections, customs posts and other needs identified by those Balkan states suffering most from the sanctions.

The two companies individually concerned by the proceedings are Pelmec Thai Ltd and NMB Thai Ltd, both wholly owned subsidiaries of the Japanese company Minebea Co Ltd. The ball bearings under consideration are an intermediate product used in the assembly of consumer and capital goods or for replacement purposes.

The investment in question will encourage the development of the Greek economy by reducing its dependency on imported oil through an environmentally clean alternative fuel for industrial, commercial and home use.