32. Is not satisfied by a recovery rate exceeding 50 % for the programming period 2000-2006; urges the Member States to deploy further efforts for the recovery of irregular amounts and calls on the Commission to take action to ensure a higher recovery rate, given that the Commission implements the budget on its own responsibility, as stated in Article 317 TFEU;

32. Is not satisfied by a recovery rate exceeding 50% for the programming period 2000-2006; urges the Member States to deploy further efforts for the recovery of irregular amounts and calls on the Commission to take action to ensure a higher recovery rate, given that the Commission implements the budget on its own responsibility, as stated in Article 317 TFEU;

Such a decision may only be taken if the costs already and likely to be incurred total more than the amount to be recovered or if the recovery proves impossible owing to the insolvency, recorded and recognised under national law, of the debtor or the persons legally responsible for the irregularity.

Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 and Council Decision 2006/000/JHA of . on the establishment, operation and use of the second generation of the Schengen Information System (SIS II) constitute the legislative basis for governing SIS II, which constitutes a shared database between Member States containing, inter alia, data on motor vehicles with a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cc, data on trailers with an unladen weight exceeding 750 kg and caravans and data on vehicle registration certificates and vehicle number plates which have been stolen, misappropriated, lost or invalidat ...[+++]ed.

In order to prevent anchorages being "accessible", the manufacturer shall physically obstruct their use, for example by welding over cover plates or by fitting similar permanent fixtures which cannot be removed by use of normally available tools; and

IX. Recovery of losses: ensure that there is no laxity or omission in the recovery of funds unduly paid to Member States, companies or individuals; calls for a regular progress report, at least on an annual basis, from the central recovery department, set up in July 2000, indicating, by Directorate-General, all cleared and outstanding recovery requests; urges the Commission to recover irregular payments discovered by the Court of Auditors for the financial year 1999 as soon as possible and in future to launch recovery proceedings within three months of receipt of details of irregularities from the Court; calls for the Commission College to take a formal ...[+++]decision, similar to those taken under the clearance of accounts procedure, for the waiving of debts greater than EUR 1 million; ensure that a “firewall” is introduced so that decisions taken by civil servants are exempt from any political interference;