(c) particular personal property (other than property that was acquired, manufactured or produced by the charity for the purpose of making a supply by way of sale of the property and property supplied by way of lease, licence or similar arrangement in conjunction with an exempt supply by way of lease, licence or similar arrangement by the charity of real property) where, immediately before the time tax would first become payable in respect of the supply of the particular property if it were a taxable supply, that property is used (otherwise than in making the supply) in commercial activities of the charity or, in the case of capital prop ...[+++]erty, primarily in such activities;

We may now wonder whether the EU has taken account of the proposals, and the speech by the Commissioner encourages us in this.

The advisory role is very well accomplished, but we have not yet found a way to achieve true convergence in Europe.

It uses lots of high-sounding words that give the impression that the EU is professional, well organised and has properly-maintained financial records. All I can say to that is ‘phooey’.

Employment held up quite well and the rise in the unemployment rate remained limited (an increase of 0,5% to a rate of 8,9%) due to intensified labour market adjustments.

– (FI) Mr President, Commissioner, firstly I would like to thank the rapporteur for having reliably compiled all our views producing an excellent piece of work.