Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, all the measures necessary for recovery, in accordance with Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2008/723/EC of 18 July 2007 on State aid C 37/05 (ex NN 11/04) implemented by Greece — tax-exempt reserve fund, of the aid held unlawful and incompatible with the internal market, excepting the aid referred to in Article 1(2) and Articles 2 and 3 of that decision, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 4 to 6 of that decision;

The report also reflected other concerns: taking account of other indicators than GDP to determine eligibility for Structural Fund assistance; improve the consistency of employment policy, the common agricultural policy, environmental policy, transport policy and economic policy with a view to sustainable regional development; increasing the administrative capacity of the applicant countries; defining the more flexible methods of implementing assistance with a view to gradual decentralisation of the management of the Funds, subject to effecti ...[+++]ve and rigorous monitoring; raising the assistance for regional competitiveness; allowing the regions to implement their own development strategies; introducing the principle "one programme - one Fund", by giving more responsibility to the regions for implementation.

(4) Whereas a common approach allowing Member States to take joint measures to attain the same objective is a sine qua non for regulating capacity; whereas to this end the scrapping funds introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 1101/89 in the Member States with inland waterways should be maintained, but under a new designation, and should administer this "old-for-new" rule; whereas the surplus funds from the industry's contributions to structural improvement schemes conducted up until 28 April 1999 should be placed in a ...[+++]reserve fund attached to the abovementioned funds;

The new Member States shall, in five equal six-monthly instalments falling due on the dates indicated in Article 6 (1), contribute towards the reserve fund, the additional reserves and those provisions equivalent to reserves, and to the amount still to be appropriated to the reserves and provisions corresponding to the balance of the profit and loss account, as at 31 December of the year prior to accession, as stated in the Bank's approved balance sheet, the amounts corresponding to the following percentages of the reserves and provisions:

During the Committee's hearings, concerns were expressed about the proposed fund, including that cash trading would destroy the CWB pooling system and have a negative impact on the domestic feed market, that the federal government should continue guaranteeing adjustments to initial payments, and that the contingency fund would be just another check-off imposed on farmers.

At the close of its discussions the Council adopted the following conclusions: "THE COUNCIL - REITERATES that in its Resolution of 7 February 1994 it invited the Commission to propose, before 1 July 1994, the measures necessary for the realization of the objectives identified, with a view to implementing without delay a Community policy on postal services, and in particular measures relating to universal service, services which can be reserved, and standardization; - NOTES that on 26 July 1995 the Commission accordingly adopted an overall approach consisting of the abovementioned draft Notice and a proposal for a Directive based on Arti ...[+++]cle 100a, providing for a harmonized framework for the postal sector; - EMPHASIZES that the relevant Council bodies began the technical discussions without delay and that today the Council had an initial policy debate on the proposal for a Directive and a debate on the draft Notice; - AGREES to continue active discussion of the proposal for a Directive in order to arrive at an agreed common position under the auspices of the Italian Presidency; - OBSERVES that the Notice envisaged by the Commission is not in itself binding but is a document in which it announces the guidelines it intends to follow in applying the Treaty's competition rules to the postal sector; - REQUESTS the Commission, in any follow-up to its draft Notice, to take the utmost account of the Council's comments, especially on the need to ensure, for the sake of transparency and legal certainty, that: - the definitions and concepts used in the Notice, in the proposal for a Directive or in other relevant Community provisions are consistent with one another; - the notice is published in the Official Journal at the same time as the Directive and in any case before the end of 1996; - EMPHASIZES that these conclusions are without prejudice to the positions of the Member States on the form and content of the Commission Notice".