4. Invites President Medvedev to match the deed to the word and to guarantee the adoption of the necessary reforms of the political system, and expects that the new Russian President will be ready to take them forward, including the much needed simplification of rules governing the registration of political parties; calls for a serious commitment to also address the problems of media freedom and freedom of assembly and expression; reiterates the EU's readiness to cooperate with Russia, including in the framework provided by the Partnership for Modernisation, to improve respect for human and fundamental rights in which connection a key ...[+++]issue is the release of political prisoners, and the effectiveness of an independent rule-of-law system in Russia;

It said that the government was making a commitment to fix the fiscal imbalance, that this fall—the fall is advancing and the winter is fast approaching now—the Prime Minister would call a conference with the premiers of Quebec and the provinces to deal with the fiscal imbalance.

Perhaps the most debatable point is the discrimination it makes among developing countries between least developed and slightly more developed ones; this is an arbitrary division and therefore one that introduces injustice, something that in the medium term we should overcome.

(130) The object of the Treaty in creating the concept of concerted practice in addition to that of agreement is to forestall the possibility of undertakings evading the application of competition rules by colluding in an anti-competitive manner falling short of an agreement by (for example) informing each other in advance of the attitude each intends to adopt, so that each may regulate its commercial conduct in the knowledge that its competitors will behave in the same way: judgment of the Court of Justice of 14 July 1972 in Case 48/69, Imperial Chemical Industries v. Commission (12).

As to development prospects, the report says that the two and a half years covered by the report is insufficient to permit the formation of a reliable overall judgment/.-- ------------------ * COM(86)365 - 2 - The report therefore judges it both premature and inappropriate to propose new measures at this point and prefers to reaffirm the principles set out in the Recommendation : freedom of choice for older workers through measures aimed at making the retirement age more flexible and facilitating a gradual transition from working to non-working life, and the introduction of a flexible retirement system which might have a beneficial impact on employment in the sense that early retirements would free jobs, would be likely to solve the problem ...[+++] of equal treatment of men and women as regards retirement age, and provide an answer to the demographic imbalances between the working and non-working population.

As to development prospects, the report says that the two and a half years covered by the report is insufficient to permit the formation of a reliable overall judgment/.-- ------------------ * COM(86)365 - 2 - The report therefore judges it both premature and inappropriate to propose new measures at this point and prefers to reaffirm the principles set out in the Recommendation : freedom of choice for older workers through measures aimed at making the retirement age more flexible and facilitating a gradual transition from working to non-working life, and the introduction of a flexible retirement system which might have a beneficial impact on employment in the sense that early retirements would free jobs, would be likely to solve the problem ...[+++] of equal treatment of men and women as regards retirement age, and provide an answer to the demographic imbalances between the working and non-working population.