average frost-free season

frost period [ frosting period | freeze period ]

gel chromatography | gel filtration | gel filtration chromatography | gel permeation chromatography | mol sieve | molecular exclusion chromatography | molecular sieve chromatography | size exclusion chromatography | GFC [Abbr.] | GPC [Abbr.] | SEC [Abbr.]

gel pen | gel-ink pen | gel ink rollerball pen

frost heave | frost heaving | frost lift | frost lifting

nuclear arms freeze

GPC | polymer analysis | analysis of polymer | gel permeation chromatography

2a. Each Member State may introduce a revolving fund for financing measures aimed at safeguarding property between the time when it is frozen and the time when it is confiscated, in order to ensure its integrity against any acts of vandalism or acts that may render it less immediately available.

107. Believes that in these times of economic restraint, every effort must be made to scrutinise institutional budgets for potential savings by introducing more practices which do not reduce the Members' quality of work; recalls that visible expressions of self-restraint include the fact that staff mission allowances have not been indexed since 2007 and the freeze on all Members' allowances at the 2011 level until the end of the current parliamentary term; welcomes, moreover, the freeze of all Members' allowances until the end of 2014;

7. Understands that the Commission, at the end of the programming period, is putting the accent on the side of payments, as it intends also to provide a solution to the ever-growing level of RALs; while sharing this approach, is particularly concerned at the proposed freezing of commitment appropriations at the level of the estimated inflation rate for next year; stresses the importance of commitments for determining political priorities and thus ensuring that the necessary investment will eventually be made to boost growth and employment; intends to analyse carefully whether such a level of commitments will allow the proper implement ...[+++]ation of key EU policies; is of the opinion that even if the freezing of commitment appropriations can be presented by the Commission and Member States as a partial solution to the RAL problem, it cannot be considered an acceptable strategy for keeping the level of RAL under control;

Without these payments many growers affected by the severe frosts will most certainly be bankrupted.