This appropriation is intended to cover expenditure on transport costs, the payment of daily mission allowances and the ancillary or exceptional expenses incurred in the performance of a mission, including ancillary costs relating to tickets and reservations.

As regards flight time limitation, the issues dealt with include the maximum daily flight period for crew members, detailed provisions on rest and on standby, and provisions regarding record keeping of flight duty, duty and rest periods.

It has for instance undertaken to put in place, from 1st July 2004, an optional daily balancing service which will even out all or some of the customer's imbalance resulting from its transport contract as part of the offer of access to storage for third parties; in January 2005 it will offer the possibility of booking daily transport capacity; it will develop the recently established secondary market in transport capacity; and it will reduce the capacity reservations done by the trading division of Gaz de France until another method of capacity allocation in the event of congestion has not been introduced with the agreement of CRE.

concerns raised by the Financial Controller regarding reimbursements for participation at external meetings, travel reimbursements and daily allowances;

concerns raised by the Financial Controller regarding reimbursements for participation at external meetings, travel reimbursements and daily allowances;

At the beginning of April, due to lack of food stocks, the State authorities reduced the individual daily ration distributed by the Public Distribution Service, which is the only source of food provision to 14 million North Koreans, to 150 grams of rice per day.