5. Notes that for the year 2013, neither sampled transactions nor other audit findings have led to any comments on the Agency's procurement procedures in the Court’s report; notes furthermore that the Court made no comments as regards the Agency's recruitment procedures in its report;

21. Welcomes the agreement reached to make available an amount of EUR 500 million for the European Globalisation Fund budgeted for the year 2007; stresses that the procedure adopted for budgeting the Fund remains in conformity with the provisions of Point 28 of the IIA of 17 May 2006 and reaffirms its view that in accordance with the Agreement the order of the sources used for financing the European Globalisation Fund in a year N is the one resulting from the chronological sequence of availability of the information on margins and cancelled commitments, i.e. firstly, cancelled commitment appropriations from year N-2, secondly, margin le ...[+++]ft available in year N-1, thirdly, cancelled commitment appropriations from year N-1; welcomes the Commission's view on this issue as expressed in the letter of the Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget to the President of the European Parliament of 17 November 2006;

2. Global provisional commitments which have been made for a financial year and which have not given rise to commitment on specific lines in the budget nomenclature by 1 February of the following financial year shall be cancelled in respect of the original financial year.

Similarly, despite the swingeing cuts in these resources, the Commission failed to commit some EUR 31 million during the 2000 financial year and allowed these appropriations to be cancelled instead of transferring them to the following financial year.

The Danish debate is about Denmark’s being able, via intergovernmental agreements, to be associated with parts of what is known as the third pillar, in other words parts of this section of the Treaty establishing the European Community, and I can tell from what the President-in-Office of the Council said that no decision has been reached. The Council has not entered into such an agreement so far, but I am aware – and the President-in-Office can presumably confirm this – that as far as, at any rate, one particular central issue is concerned, namely the EURODAC system, negotiations between the EU institutions and Denmark are under way.

(19) The place at which a service provider is established should be determined in conformity with the case-law of the Court of Justice according to which the concept of establishment involves the actual pursuit of an economic activity through a fixed establishment for an indefinite period; this requirement is also fulfilled where a company is constituted for a given period; the place of establishment of a company providing services via an Internet website is not the place at which the technology supporting its website is located or the place at which its website is accessible but the place where it pursues its economic activity; in ca ...[+++]ses where a provider has several places of establishment it is important to determine from which place of establishment the service concerned is provided; in cases where it is difficult to determine from which of several places of establishment a given service is provided, this is the place where the provider has the centre of his activities relating to this particular service.