31. Reiterates its conviction that small hydropower dams are more sustainable and economically viable than large hydropower; in particular, stresses that decentralised, small-scale options (micro hydro, home-scale solar electric systems, wind and biomass systems) based on local renewable resources are more appropriate in rural areas far away from centralised supply networks;

There was little transparency as to how the food mail system worked, and at the moment of truth, when the customer bought the subsidized product, there was no clear indication of the subsidy this despite the fact that Canada Post executed the food mail program as it was intended and structured.

We've been around since 1989, and the food mail system has been pretty much the raison d'être of the company.

1. Points out that a system in which approximately 70% of the Union's revenue do not originate in own resources but come directly from the national budgets through the GNI resource, and 15% come from a resource such as the percentage of the VAT rate which cannot be regarded (on account of the way in which it is determined) as being in every respect an EU own resource, departs from the provisions and the spirit of the Treaty of Rome; points out that the very existence of the European Union has brought about an increase in intra-Community trade and an increase in the Member States' "wealth", for which reason the EU is fully entitled to eq ...[+++]uip itself with a system of genuine own resources instead of one fed by national contributions;

1. Points out that a system in which approximately 70% of the Union's revenue do not originate in own resources but come directly from the national budgets through the GNI resource, and 15% come from a resource such as the percentage of the VAT rate which cannot be regarded (on account of the way in which it is determined) as being in every respect an EU own resource, departs from the provisions and the spirit of the Treaty of Rome; points out that the very existence of the European Union has brought about an increase in intra-Community trade and an increase in the Member States' "wealth", for which reason the EU is fully entitled to eq ...[+++]uip itself with a system of genuine own resources instead of one fed by national contributions;

Its distribution system in France was organized in such a way that the sale to car manufacturers of carburettors intended for fitting both as original equipment and as replacements was kept separate from the sale to its own distributors of carburettors intended for the replacement market. In the latter case, parts were sold through the group's French subsidiary, Magneti Marelli Distribution, while in the former, car manufacturers were supplied direct from its Solex and Weber factories, which sold them replacement carburettors on far b ...[+++]etter terms.