37. Stresses that adequate country-specific as well as eurozone-wide economic models, built on prudent assumptions, independent data, involvement of stakeholders and transparency, are necessary in order to produce credible and efficient adjustment programmes, while acknowledging that economic forecasts usually contain a degree of uncertainty and unpredictability; deplores the fact that adequate statistics and information have not always been available;

Forecasts by the Commission and information regarding the models on which they are based can provide Member States with a useful benchmark for their most likely macrofiscal scenario, enhancing the validity of the forecasts used for budgetary planning.

26. Welcomes the increase (+ EUR 5,7 million) in the overall level of commitment appropriations for the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework programme compared to what was initially foreseen; hopes that this increase will contribute to improving the access of SMEs to this programme and to developing specific programmes and innovative financial mechanisms; recalls, in this context, the key role played by SMEs in boosting the EU economy and supports, in particular, the CIP-EIP programme as an indispensable tool of recovery from the crisis; stresses the need to improve SMEs' access to capital markets and different EU financing opport ...[+++]unities by making funding procedures easier, quicker and less bureaucratic;

26. Welcomes the increase (+ EUR 5,7 million) in the overall level of commitment appropriations for the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework programme compared to what was initially foreseen; hopes that this increase will contribute to improving the access of SMEs to this programme and to developing specific programmes and innovative financial mechanisms; recalls, in this context, the key role played by SMEs in boosting the EU economy and supports, in particular, the CIP-EIP programme as an indispensable tool of recovery from the crisis; stresses the need to improve SMEs' access to capital markets and different EU financing opport ...[+++]unities by making funding procedures easier, quicker and less bureaucratic;

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32007R0498 - EN - Commission Regulation (EC) No 498/2007 of 26 March 2007 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006 on the European Fisheries Fund - COMMISSION REGULATION // OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME // INSTRUCTIONS FOR CREATING THE EMBLEM AND A DEFINITION OF THE STANDARD COLOURS // LIST OF DATA TO BE COMMUNICATED ON REQUEST TO THE COMMISSION UNDER ARTICLE 40 // TECHNICAL PARAMETERS FOR RANDOM STATISTICAL SAMPLING UNDER ARTICLE 43 (SAMPLING) // MODEL AUDIT STRATEGY AS PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE 61(1)(C) OF REGULATION (EC) No 1198/2006 // MODEL ...[+++] ANNUAL CONTROL REPORT AND OPINION // MODEL FINAL CONTROL REPORT AND CLOSURE DECLARATION FOR THE OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME UNDER ARTICLE 61(1)(f) OF REGULATION (EC) No 1198/2006 AND ARTICLE 44(3) OF THE PRESENT REGULATION // MODEL DECLARATION FOR THE PARTIAL CLOSURE OF THE OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME UNDER ARTICLE 44(5) // CERTIFICATE AND STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE AND APPLICATION FOR PAYMENT // ANNUAL STATEMENT ON WITHDRAWN AND RECOVERED AMOUNTS AND PENDING RECOVERIES UNDER ARTICLE 46(2) // MODEL STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE FOR A PARTIAL CLOSURE UNDER ARTICLE 46(3) // DESCRIPTION OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEMS UNDER ARTICLE 71 OF REGULATION (EC) No 1198/2006 AND ARTICLE 47 OF THE PRESENT REGULATION // FORECASTS OF LIKELY APPLICATIONS FOR PAYMENT // ANNUAL AND FINAL REPORTING

For each rural development programme, the Member States shall send the Commission, in accordance with Article 8(1)(c)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, using the model in Annex X to this Regulation, twice per year, together with the declarations of expenditure to be sent by 31 January and 31 July at the latest, their forecasts of the amounts to be funded by the EAFRD for the current year, and an updated estimate of their funding requests for the following year.