2. Recalls that the Centre's 2011 budget amounted to EUR 51 299 000 and that the 2011 budget outturn decreased to EUR 1 201 339,13 in 2011, as compared to EUR 8 319 397,02 in 2010, which represents a decrease of 85,56 %; notes, moreover, from the Court of Auditors' report that the decrease mainly resulted from a 15 % decrease in revenues, reflecting the Centre's new pricing policy, which aims to align the prices of products with their costs;

the medium-term budgetary objective and the adjustment path towards this objective for the general government balance as a percentage of GDP, the expected path of the general government debt ratio, the planned growth path of government expenditure, including the corresponding allocation for gross fixed capital formation, in particular bearing in mind the conditions and criteria to establish the expenditure growth under Article 9(1), the planned growth path of government revenue at unchanged policy and a quantification of the planned discretionary revenue measures, the medium-term monetary policy objectives, the relationship of those objectives to price and excha ...[+++]nge rate stability and to the achievement of sustained convergence.

Nor do I feel that there are major pricing problems or that prices in the sales will influence prices in January, as they have not done in the past, since they have never been taken into account.

Seasonal and clearance sales are also exempted from the regulation, as are fixed-prices for books and, last but not least – and this has already been addressed – the thorny issue of below cost selling.

Seasonal and clearance sales are also exempted from the regulation, as are fixed-prices for books and, last but not least – and this has already been addressed – the thorny issue of below cost selling.

1. Contracts shall fix the time limits for any advance payments and for payment of the purchase price for beet.