(91a) In order to ensure the necessary input and better involvement of Member States when the Commission exercises its implementing powers with a regard to this Regulation in certain particularly sensitive policy areas relating to the ESI Funds and in order to strengthen the Member States' role in adopting uniform conditions in such areas or other executive measures with substantial implications or with a potentially significant impact on either the national economy, the national budget or on the proper functioning of the public administration of the Member States, the implementing acts relating to the methodology for providing information on the support for climate change objectives, the arrangements to ensure a consistent approach for det ...[+++]ermining in the performance framework the milestones and targets for each priority and for assessing the attainment of the milestones and targets, the nomenclature, based on which the categories of intervention are to be defined concerning the priority axis in operational programmes, the technical characteristics of information and communication measures for the operation and instructions for creating the emblem and the definition of its standard colours, the model to be used when submitting the financial data to the Commission for monitoring purposes as well as the models for payment applications and for the accounts, the format for notification of the refusal by the Commission of any financial contribution to a major project, the terms and conditions of the electronic data exchange to be established for official exchanges of information between the Member States and the Commission, including the information concerning Member States' responsibilities, the model for the report and the opinion of the independent audit body in connection with the designation procedures of the managing authorities and, where appropriate, of the certifying authorities, the technical specifications of the management and control system, the detailed arr ...

27. Is surprised that there are as yet no European-level tax incentives for cooperation and pooling; takes note of the call by the December 2013 Council for such arrangements to be explored, and finds it regrettable that, a year on, discussions have not yet produced any tangible measures in this regard; notes that the Belgian Government already grants VAT exemptions, on an ad hoc basis, to the preparatory phases of certain EDA projects, e.g. for satellite communications; believes that such exemptions should be applied as a matter of course and should be extended to infrastructure and to specific capability-related programmes, ta ...[+++]king as a model the existing mechanism within NATO or the existing EU mechanism for civilian research infrastructures; calls for the development of any other incentive that could encourage capability cooperation between Europeans;

38. Is surprised that there are as yet no EU-level tax incentives for cooperation and pooling; takes note of the call by the December 2013 Council for such arrangements to be explored, and finds it regrettable that, a year on, discussions have not yet produced any tangible measures in this regard; notes that the Belgian Government already grants VAT exemptions, on an ad hoc basis, for the preparatory phases of certain EDA projects (for example for satellite communications); believes that such exemptions should be applied systematically and extended to infrastructure and specific capability-related programmes, taking as a ...[+++]model the existing NATO mechanism or the existing EU mechanism for civilian research infrastructure; calls for the development of any other incentives that could encourage cooperation between European stakeholders;

(56) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission as regards the template for the structured survey on end recipients, the frequency of reporting of irregularities and the reporting format to be used, the terms and conditions for the electronic data exchange system for management and control, the technical specifications of recording and data-storing in relation to the management and control system, the model for the management declaration, t ...[+++]he models for the audit strategy, audit opinion and control report, the model for the report and opinion of the independent audit body and description of the functions and procedures in place for the management authority and, where appropriate, the certifying authority, the model for payment applications, and the model for accounts .

18. Considers it imperative to establish common protocols/models, harmonised and tested in sampling strategies, and to lay down data collection and processing procedures and the format in which information is to be communicated, these being essential in order to make fisheries data comparable and interoperable; notes that the DCF model could be used for that purpose;

develop common intelligence models and share intelligence using those models, taking into consideration the legal obligations of partners and relevant domestic and international provisions on data protection and confidentiality,