Provisions under the Social Security (Open Long-Term Benefits Scheme) Ordinance 1997 and the Social Security (Closed Long-Term Benefits Scheme) Ordinance 1996 relating to child dependency increases paid to pensioners and guardian's allowance".

Up to now the agency has obtained most of its funds through periodic long-term space plans approved by cabinet.

(ii) 'family allowances' means periodical cash benefits granted exclusively by reference to the number and, where appropriate, the age of members of the family;

* * * * The Third Periodic Report also includes a number of new or more detailed analyses - a comparison between Community regional disparities and those in the United States; - an updated and extended version of the synthetic index used to rank the regions on the basis of the severity of their social and economic problems; - regional differences in labour costs; - an analysis of regional migration and its trend; - infrastructure expenditure and endowment in the regions; - different types of region (regions lagging behind, declining industrial regions, agricultural regions, frontier regions, urban problem regions, peripheral regions and islands); - underemployment, particularly in agriculture; - forward-looking analysis of ...[+++]long-term population trends, medium-term labour force trends and job requirements in the regions; - the impact on the regions of expenditure under the European Social Fund, the EAGGF and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; - the problems of regional disparities in the context of the pursuit of convergence and cohesion; - an analysis of Community regional policy since its inception.

Those transactions which currently appear in List C are as follows : a) long-term credits (five years and more) related to commercial transactions or to the provision of services in which a resident is participating : as the current liberalization obligations already cover short- and medium- term credits, it seems logical to extend them to long-term credits, which are also involved in the free movements of goods and services; - 3 - b) acquisition by residents of foreign securities and by non- residents ...[+++] of domestic securities : the current liberaliza- tion obligations cover only securities traded on a stock exchange and provide for exceptions for the acquisition of units of unit trusts and for the acquisition by residents of foreign bonds issued on a foreign market and denominated in national currency.

Those transactions which currently appear in List C are as follows : a) long-term credits (five years and more) related to commercial transactions or to the provision of services in which a resident is participating : as the current liberalization obligations already cover short- and medium- term credits, it seems logical to extend them to long-term credits, which are also involved in the free movements of goods and services; - 3 - b) acquisition by residents of foreign securities and by non- residents ...[+++] of domestic securities : the current liberaliza- tion obligations cover only securities traded on a stock exchange and provide for exceptions for the acquisition of units of unit trusts and for the acquisition by residents of foreign bonds issued on a foreign market and denominated in national currency.