(c) the Corporation has calculated the gross debt service ratio and total debt service ratio in accordance with the method set out in subsection 5(3); and

28. Agrees that the ECB’s action, which came in addition to structural reforms and the consolidation of public finances, has ‘decisively contributed to the stability of the euro area’; recognises that this action has had the effect of decreasing unsustainably high financing costs for some Member States through the Securities Market Programme (SMP) and providing a liquidity backstop for sovereign debt markets through Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs), averting a melt-down of the banking sector and helping to sever the link between banks and sovereigns, limiting speculation on sovereign debt and temporarily reducing excessive spreads; ...[+++] considers, however, that a lack of sustainable growth and high (and still growing) levels of private and public debt in many Member States mean that ’a carefully managed process of deleveraging’ is required; agrees with the Commission that the improvement of the health of the banking sector must remain a priority; welcomes the establishment by the Commission, according to thecommitment it made to Parliament in the declaration annexed to the two-pack, of the high-level group chaired by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell to deepen the analysis on, and assess thoroughly the partial substitution of national debt issuance through joint issuance in the form of a redemption fund and eurobills, considering the pros and cons of the different options ; looks forward to the report of the high-level group;

28. Calls on the Commission as soon as possible to present a report to Parliament and the Council examining the options for, and making proposals for a roadmap towards, common issuance of public debt instruments, taking into account financial, budgetary and legal aspects; considers that, in this context and in parallel to the intermediary Van Rompuy report of 12 October 2012 , the Commission should pay particular attention to the feasibility of introducing a redemption fund which combines temporary common issuance of debt instruments ...[+++], and strict rules on fiscal adjustmentamong those countries whose indebtedness exceeds 60 % of GDP, with the participating countries undertaking to make their repayments, in order to allow all participating countries to reduce excessive debt over a benchmark period of 25 years, which is a longer period than provided for in the renewed Stability and Growth Pact but which likewise, in practice, requires sufficient economic growth and very strict financial discipline;

28. Calls on the Commission as soon as possible to present a report to Parliament and the Council examining the options for, and – if appropriate – making proposals for a roadmap towards, common issuance of public debt instruments, taking into account financial, budgetary and legal aspects; considers that, in this context and in parallel to the intermediary Van Rompuy report of 12 October 2012 , the Commission should pay particular attention to the feasibility of introducing a redemption fund which combines temporary common issuance ...[+++]of debt instruments, and strict rules on fiscal adjustment among those countries whose indebtedness exceeds 60 % of GDP, with the participating countries undertaking to make their repayments, in order to allow all participating countries to reduce excessive debt over a benchmark period of 25 years, which is a longer period than provided for in the renewed Stability and Growth Pact but which likewise, in practice, requires sufficient economic growth and very strict financial discipline;

(6) Implementing the existing excessive deficit procedure on the basis of both the deficit criterion and the debt criterion requires a numerical benchmark that takes into account the business cycle against which to assess whether the ratio of government debt to gross domestic product is sufficiently diminishing and approaching the reference value at a satisfactory pace, or is deemed in situation of temporary deviation from the sufficiently diminishing path.

(f) in the case of a private equity AIF and an acquisition within the scope of Article 26, the ratio of financial debt used for the acquisition to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation.