17. Is concerned that the creation of executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies may lead to a growth in the number of EU officials and contractual agents, unless posts in the relevant Commission Directorate-General are reduced to offset the increase, and to a weakening of the oversight of the EU administration; requests the Commission to explain in the 2008 PDB how posts requested in new executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies will be offset by reductions in the responsible Directorate-General; further requests the Commission to address in the 2008 PDB the issue of appropriate oversight of executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies ...[+++] so as to ensure democratic accountability; urges an improvement of the Code of Conduct on the Setting-up of Executive Agencies, in particular as regards parliamentary scrutiny of financing and staffing of the agencies;

reduce the imbalances in the European audiovisual market between high audiovisual production capacity countries and countries or regions with low audiovisual production capacity and/or a small geographic and linguistic market.

reduce the imbalances in the European audiovisual market between high audiovisual production capacity countries and countries or regions with low audiovisual production capacity and/or a small geographic and linguistic market.

For companies which do not have a credit history or a rating based on a balance sheet approach (such as certain special purpose companies or start-up companies), Member States may grant a reduction up to 15 % (25 % for SMEs) on the specific safe-harbour premium set at 3,8 % in the Commission Notice on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid in the form of guarantees (OJ C 155, 20.6.2008).

reducing the imbalances in the European audiovisual market between high production capacity countries and countries or regions with low production capacity and/or a restricted geographic and linguistic area;

Here, we have some margins of reduction and we are discussing the tariff reduction formula (At this stage of the negotiations we would think in terms of limited variations around the pivotal number defining the cut within the bands). In view of the confidentiality of the negotiations it would seem to be impossible to openly quantify the negotiating margins.