The costs agreed for building the plant by the TLT consortium were budgeted at EUR 1692,4 million (DEM 3310 million). The other costs were the costs for the preparation of the project, the accompanying infrastructure and the costs for putting the plant into operation.

The Commission has decided to send three Member States requests for information on what measures they have taken to comply with European Court of Justice rulings: the Netherlands to comply with the Court judgment of 8 November 2001 concerning an irregular VAT exemption on expenses for staff cars; Italy the judgment of 25 October 2001 concerning the repayment of VAT with securities; France the judgment of 27 February 2002 concerning the levying of a minimum price on cigarettes and differentiated taxation of light and dark tobacco.

Whereas the reduction to 60 % of the intervention price of the threshold triggering the 'safety net' mechanism as referred to in Article 6 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 creates the danger of a speculative fall in market prices in certain Member States; whereas, in order to discourage such speculation and prevent a downward spiral of this type, the prices awarded should be modulated on the basis of the market price trends subsequently recorded in cases where the tendered price is higher than the applicable market price; whereas, in the interests of simplification, the amounts of the increase referred to in Article 6 (5) should be ad ...[+++]opted as fixed amounts, which should continue to differ on the basis of which intervention arrangements apply;

The judgment of 10 April 1984 was of major importance for Belgian taxpayers; it confirmed a basic principle of Community law ruling that VAT must be levied on the actual price paid by the consumer, not on a theoretical price such as the catalogue price.

Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1767/68 2 of 6 November 1968 on the system of minimum prices for exports to third countries of flowering corms, bulbs and tubers, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1946/70 3, provides that the minimum export prices should be fixed each year not later than 31 October, with the exception of those for begonias, sinningias, gladioli, dahlias and the lilium species which must be fixed not later than 31 December and that each Member State should communicate each year, before 1 December in respect of begonias, sinningias, gladioli, dahlias and the lilium species and before 15 October in respec ...[+++]t of other products covered by the minimum export price system, all information necessary for assessing price trends on international markets and for the fixing of minimum prices;

On SOR/98-221 Order Amending the Advance Income Tax Ruling Fees Order; SOR/90-234 Advance Income Tax Ruling Fees Order; and SOR/92-114 Advance Income Tax Ruling Fees Order, amendment (before the committee on March 24, 1994 and May 30, 1996), It was agreed, That the files be closed.