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10. Recalls that the 28 EU Member States are still the world’s number two when it comes to both defence spending and arms exports; believes that this fact shows that the EU Member States and the Union still play a key role in global arms sales and defence procurement; considers a combined annual defence spending of 190 billion EUR an enormous amount of tax payer’s money; also recalls that numerous recent studies showed that the main problem lies in the fact that in many of the 28 EU Member States defence budgets are being spent in ...[+++]a very inefficient way leading to long delays, higher costs and in many cases to helicopters, fighter jets and other technology being not operational although brand new; stresses the need to deeply restructure the relationships between national defence administrations and defence industries and to introduce strict qualitative criteria for the output of procurement projects;

Thus, since the total cumulative sum of the daily rates for the lump-sum fine as at 16 October 2014 exceeds the minimum lump sum determined for Portugal, the Commission proposes that that Member State be required to pay the daily rate of the lump-sum fine, that is to say EUR 2 244 per day starting from the date of delivery of the Court’s judgment in Case C-530/07 and until the date of delivery of the judgment in accordance with Article 260 TFEU, or until the date on which the Portuguese Republic complies with the first of the Court’s ...[+++]judgments, if that date is earlier.

7. Calls for a collective ban on the sale of arms to Russia and urges its implementation until the situation in eastern Ukraine has normalised; recalls that, according to criterion 4 of the Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP of 8 December 2008 defining common rules governing control of exports of military technology and equipment, the EU Member States should not issue an export licence in cases where there is a clear risk for the preservation of regional peace, security and stability and that the intended recipient would use the exported military technology or equipment aggressively against another country or to assert a territorial ...[+++]claim by force; welcomes the fact that several Member States have already applied this rule; deplores, however, the absence up to now of a collective EU decision;

Where more than one agricultural holding carry out the investment for the production of energy from renewable sources with the aim to serve their own energy needs or for the production of biofuels on holdings, the annual average consumption is accumulated to the amount equivalent to the average annual consumption of all beneficiaries.