17. Considers, in addition, that for partly self-financed Agencies, clients should pay the full cost of the services provided to them by those Agencies, including the employer's prorate contribution to the pension scheme; concerning the issue of how to deal with a possible shortfall against forecast of fee revenue from the clients and the need to ensure the availability of necessary funding to Agencies, calls on the Commission to investigate the necessity and possible modalities of creating a limited ring-fenced reserve fund to be operated in a transparent way;

20. Points out that the Financial Regulation stipulates that grants ‘may not finance the entire operating expenditure of the beneficiary body’; observes that complying with this rule is especially difficult for foundations and leads to evasive bookkeeping techniques (for example ‘contributions in kind’); points out that almost none of the funding schemes in Member States require partial self-financing, as this can disadvantage smaller or recently established parties;

20. Points out that the Financial Regulation stipulates that grants ‘may not finance the entire operating expenditure of the beneficiary body’; observes that complying with this rule is especially difficult for foundations and leads to evasive bookkeeping techniques (for example ‘contributions in kind’); points out that almost none of the funding schemes in Member States require partial self-financing, as this can disadvantage smaller or recently established parties;

The most appropriate means to achieve this change is by a modification to the levy on domestic production which is included in the Commission proposals as a means to make the change self-financing.

In particular, the Commission has doubts that the State-provided guarantee scheme, which charges a uniform premium independently of the insured risk can be considered as self-financing.

The main points in this proposal were as follows : a. the present quota system should be continued for five more marketing years (1986/87 to 1990/91); b. quotas would be kept at the level applicable in 1985/86; c. the sector would continue to be self-financing, with contributions form the producers themselves; d. the self-financing mechanisms would be strengthened by increasing the basic levy (A and B sugar and isoglucose) from 2% to 2.5% of the intervention price and the B levy from 37.5% to 47% of the said price; e. the budgetary deficit of 400 million ECU which producers' contributions over the five-year period 1981/82 - 1985/86 h ...[+++]ad failed to cover would be reduced by raising the ceilings in question over the next five marketing years.