Creditors’ actual knowledge of the costs should be assessed objectively, taking into account the requirements of professional diligence.

Creditors’ actual knowledge of the costs should be assessed objectively, taking into account the requirements of professional diligence.

The specific function of the vessel traffic monitoring and ship's routing measures is to allow Member States to obtain a true knowledge of the ships using the waters under their jurisdiction and thus enable them to take more effective action against potential risks if necessary.

To improve statistics on General and Business aviation, as policy makers need to have an up-to-date knowledge of the situation to enable them to properly regulate this sector.

To better understand the mobility decision and the barriers facing an individual it is also important that the Commission further improves its factual knowledge of mobility, including data collection.

"The Union needs a cohesion policy which addresses three types of region and structural problems": (1) regions whose development is lagging very far behind, 60 % of which are in the applicant countries; (2) regions of the Fifteen which have not completed the process of real convergence (particularly in the three cohesion countries); (3) regions facing serious structural problems, such as some urban areas, areas affected by industrial conversion, rural areas dependent on agriculture and/or fishing, and areas suffering from natural or demographic handicaps (islands, mountain areas, outermost regions, etc.).To avoid funding being spread t ...[+++]oo thinly, cohesion policy should concentrate on those measures where the Community can add real value, resulting in stronger links between financial allocations, the value added by the measures and the anticipated results.