1. No later than 12 months after the date of the application pursuant to Article 8(1) the Member State shall present an interim report to the Commission on the implementation of the financial contribution, including on the funding, timing and type of actions already carried out and on the rate of reintegration into employment or new activities achieved 12 months after the date of the application.

- the EGF application form and the template for the final report on the execution of a contribution from the EGF should clearly recall the obligation on the EGF coordinator and the Member State to provide data on employment outcomes of beneficiaries twelve months after the implementation of the measures, and data regarding the employment rate in the last 12 months, since the implementation of the EGF in the area concerned, in order to have a broader view of the EGF´s impact.

(b) subject to point (c), a countercyclical buffer rate for a third country shall apply 12 months after the date on which a change in the buffer rate was announced by the relevant third country authority, irrespective of whether that authority requires institutions incorporated in that third country to apply the change within a shorter period, if the effect of that decision is to increase the buffer rate;

D. whereas for the inflation rate criterion, two different definitions of 'price stability' are being used; whereas the ECB has clarified that, in the pursuit of price stability, it aims to maintain inflation rates below but close to 2% over the medium term while in their convergence reports, the ECB and the Commission use a reference value calculated as the average inflation rate over the previous 12 months in the three best-performing Member States plus 1,5 percentage points, on the basis of the Protocol on the convergence criteria referred to in Article 121(1) of the EC Treaty, which assumes that best performance in terms of price s ...[+++]tability means, in practice, the lowest possible inflation,

The uniform interest rate shall correspond to the average of the three-month and 12-month forward Euribor rates, recorded in the six months preceding the notification from the Member States provided for in paragraph 2 of this point, with a weighting of one third and two thirds respectively.

5. The individual reference fat content referred to in paragraph 1 shall be adjusted, where appropriate, upon the entry into force of this Regulation and thereafter, at the beginning of each twelve-month period as necessary, so that, for each Member State, the weighted average of the individual representative fat contents does not exceed by more than 0,1 gram per kg the reference fat content set in Annex II.