Speaker of the Federation Council.

7. Has already addressed certain shortcomings in connection with conflicts of interest, declarations of interests and transparency; stresses that the former Chairperson of the Management Board of the Authority failed, in 2010, to declare her membership of the board of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), even though the ILSI is financed by undertakings in the food, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors; notes that the members of the Authority’s Management Board are not appointed by the Executive Director and, hence, cannot be dismissed by the Executive Director;

Are the Member States obliged to apply the rounding-up rule in Article 175(1) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax in the case of an input tax adjustment made in accordance with Article 184 et seq. of that directive in cases where the deductible proportion within the meaning of Article 175(1) of that directive is calculated in accordance with one of the special methods set out in headings (a), (b), (c) or (d) of Article 173(2) of that directive or in accordance with headings (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the third subparagraph of Article 17(5) of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC on the harmonisation of the ...[+++] laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes — Common system of value added tax: uniform basis of assessment?

It is also noted that NG's supervisory board represented the Land and the district of Ahrweiler as NG's shareholders.

Latvia has taken measures in the framework of Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October 2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine fever (4) and an infected area has been established in part of the territory of the novadi of Alūksnes, Rēzeknes, Daugavpils, Balvu, Rugāju, Viļakas, Baltinavas, Kārsavas, Ciblas, Ludzas, Zilupes, Dagdas, Aglonas and Krāslavas.

Member States may also maintain, unamended, the exchange value in national currency of the amount determined in ECU if, at the time of the annual adjustment referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2779/78 of 23 November 1978 applying the European unit of account (EUA) to legal acts adopted in the customs sphere [4], the conversion of this amount leads, before the rounding-off provided for in the preceding paragraph, to an alteration of less than 5 % in the exchange value expressed in natio ...[+++]nal currency.