Held: The judgment of the European Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) in Case F-52/05 Q v Commission [2008] ECR-SC I-A-1-409 and II-A-1-2235 is set aside in that, at paragraph 2 of the operative part, it orders the Commission to pay to Q damages of EUR 500 and also the sum of EUR 15 000, in so far as that sum is intended to make good the non-pecuniary damage sustained by Q owing to an alleged delay in initiating the administrative investigation, and as, for the purposes of dismissing the remainder of the application at first instance, at paragraph 3 of the operative part, it adjudicates, at paragraphs 147 to 189 of the grounds of the ...[+++] judgment, on ‘the complaint of psychological harassment raised by [Q]’ and states, at paragraph 230 of the grounds of the judgment, that there is no longer any need to rule on the claim for annulment of the 2003 career development reports concerning Q, drawn up for the periods 1 January to 31 October and 1 November to 31 December 2003 respectively.

The Commission will propose: A comprehensive legislative instrument establishing regulatory and supervisory standards for hedge funds, private equity and other systemically important market players(April 2009) A White Paper on tools for early intervention to prevent a crisis (June 2009) On the basis of a report on derivatives and other complex structured products (June 2009), appropriate initiatives to increase transparency and ensure financial stability Legislative proposals to increase the quality and quantity of prudential capital ...[+++]for trading book activities and tackle complex securitisation (June 2009) and to address liquidity risk and excessive leverage (Autumn 2009) A rolling programme of actions to establish a far more consistent set of supervisory rules (to be launched in 2009) To ensure that European investors, consumers and SMEs can be confident about their savings, access to credit and their rights as concerns financial products, the Commission will come forward with: A Communication on retail investment products to strengthen the effectiveness of marketing safeguards (April 2009) Further measures to reinforce bank depositor, investor and insurance policy holder protection (Autumn 2009) Measures on responsible lending and borrowing (Autumn 2009) To improve risk management in financial firms and align pay incentives with sustainable performance.

It shall also provide detailed information concerning the amounts of aid and recovery interest already recovered from the beneficiary.

2. Upon explicit request of the Commission, the Member States shall, within two months following receipt of that request, provide the Commission with all relevant information regarding the progress made — notably on initiation, abandonment and termination — in the procedures related to the recovery of any sums wrongly paid in a specific case or group of cases.

5. In the event of significant changes affecting the implementation of the annual programme which imply a transfer of funds between actions exceeding 10 % of the total amount allocated to a Member State for the year in question, the Member State shall submit for the Commission’s approval a revised annual programme at the latest at the time of submission of the progress report referred to in Article 23(3).

5. In the event of significant changes affecting the implementation of the annual programme which imply a transfer of funds between actions exceeding 10 % of the total amount allocated to a Member State for the year in question, the Member State shall submit for the Commission’s approval a revised annual programme at the latest at the time of submission of the progress report referred to in Article 23(3).