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The failure to rule within a reasonable time period caused the applicant three types of loss between 12 February 2010 and 27 September 2012: (1) increased costs related to a bank guarantee for the amount of the fine that the applicant did not immediately pay to the Commission following the adoption of decision No C(2007)5791 final of 28 November 2007 in Case COMP/39165 — Flat glass; (2) opportunity costs because the low rate of interest on the amount of the fine belatedly returned to the applicant following the Court of Justice’s judgment in 2014 was much lower than the potential return that the applicant could have achieved if, instead ...[+++]of paying this money to the Commission in 2008, it had invested it in its business; and (3) non-pecuniary damages due to the decision wrongly having imposed the highest fine on the applicant in November 2007 and, due to the General Court’s failure to adjudicate within a reasonable time, this only being belatedly remedied by the Court of Justice in November 2014.

In terms of expenditure per head across regions, this tended to be higher than elsewhere in the less prosperous regions, such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the North and North-West of England, partly because of higher spending on social protection, reflecting the larger numbers of unemployed and those not in work, though also because of the additional expenditure on health care and administration in the first three regio ...[+++]ns.

247. Underlines the fact that Union financial assistance should create European added-value; asks, therefore, that the Union added value of the EGF measures, as compared to the Union added value of the ESF measures, be considered in its quantitative and qualitative aspects in the annual discharge procedure in order to ensure the most effective policy measurements or to provide the reasons for not including these figures; shares the Court of Auditors’ view that a period of 41 weeks between submitting an application for EGF assistance ...[+++] and payments is unacceptably high and that such a duration discourages applicant countries in distress and in need of Union solidarity; notes, however, the information supplied by the Commission in its replies; reminds all parties concerned of the Union’s budgetary authorities’ decision not to integrate the EGF into the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which means that all applications have to undergo a specific budgetary procedure, and notwithstanding the above explanations, calls on all the parties concerned to switch to e-applications and to limit additional information after the original application to exceptional cases, and in any case, no later than three months after the original application;

Among the 10 most costly Member States for annual vehicles taxes, three are from the EU-12 (Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria).