The installations included in the NIMs by these Member States have been found eligible for free allocation and no inconsistencies with regard to the preliminary total annual amounts of emission allowances allocated free of charge proposed by each of these Member States could be detected.

This limit is composed of two elements referred to in points (a) and (b) of Article 10a(5) of Directive 2003/87/EC, each of which has been determined by the Commission on the basis of the quantities determined pursuant to Articles 9 and 9a of Directive 2003/87/EC, data publicly available in the Union registry and information provided by Member States, in particular with regard to the share of emissions from electricity generators and other installations not eligible for free allocation referred to in Article 10a(3) of Directive 2003/87/EC as well as verified emissions in the period from 2005 to 2007 from installations only included in th ...[+++]e EU ETS from 2013 onwards, where available, taking into account the latest scientific data with regard to the global warming potential of greenhouse gases.

First, the Commission examined the eligibility of installations for free allocation, the division of installations into subinstallations and their boundaries.

In the fall of 2003, the Committee undertook a study on matters relating to quota allocations and benefits to northern fishers.

(2) The second strand of policy followed by Member States refers to the possibility to combine the receipt of the benefit entitlement with earnings from work (labour supply channel) by allowing the following: (i) combination of part-time or full-time job with partial unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance (Spain, Ireland, Portugal) or with a wide range of other social benefit schemes such as normal and specific unemployment benefits, RMI, lone-parent allowance, ASS and disabled adult allowance (France); and (ii) incentives to start-up business or to encourage self-employment by allowing to receive the unemployment benefit in a ...[+++]lump sum payment (Spain).

The counterpart funds in the five recipient cities have enabled the requirements of the least-well-off to be met. In Moscow, 2.2 million elderly people and needy families have received 150 roubles a month for six months while 10 000 pensioners have been offered free meals and a million schoolchildren given 450 roubles for food during the holidays. In St Petersburg, 2 million people (pensioners, single mothers and large families) have been awarded special allowances totalling 1.5 billion roubles. - 3 - Meals at a cost of 40 million roubles have been made available to 40 000 citizens in Saratov with the same sum going on supplementary bene ...[+++]fits for 70 000 inhabitants of Nizhny-Novgorod. In Chelyabinsk the money has opened the way for purchase of consumer goods for target groups.