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The Commission limited Mindo’s joint and several liability to 10% of its turnover for the most recent business year, given that, at the time of adoption of the Decision (in 2005), it maintained no links with the former group of which Dimon Inc. was the ultimate parent company (in accordance with Article 23(2) of Regulation No 1/2003)

U. recalling that, as stated by Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini in a speech to the European Parliament on 21 June 2005, an estimated number of at least 700-900 women die each year from intimate partner violence in the 15 old Member States and this number is likely to be underestimated,

I would remind the Commissioner and the House that the figures show clearly that the 10 new Member States produced more potatoes that the 15 old Member States as recently as 1999, with around 1 400 000 hectares of potatoes grown in the old Member States as opposed to 1 600 000 hectares in the new Member States.

21. In the light of the new figures received by the Commission, considers that the amount of payment appropriations should be increased well above the level proposed in the 2004 PDB, if outstanding commitments are to be significantly reduced; retains the option, therefore, of amending the relevant proposals during the current budgetary procedure; stresses that reduction of old commitments should continue and possibly be accelerated in 2005;

In all previous enlargements of the Union, the basis for recruitment of officials from incoming Member States was produced by a mixture of negotiation, comparisons between old and new Member States and, occasionally, reference to objective criteria such as population and sometimes - GDP.

As the sole arbiter of proposed mergers and concentrations between companies which have an aggregate worldwide turnover in excess of ECU 5 billion and individual turnover of ECU 250 million in Europe, of at least two of the companies concerned, the European Commission invites governments and companies, before 31 March 1996, to a wide ranging debate centred, essentially, on the three following themes: - a reduction in the thresholds which give exclusive control to the Commission being ECU 2 billion for worldwide sales (in place of ECU 5 billion) and ECU 100 million (instead of ECU 250 million).; - should such a reduction not be achieved, exclusive control for the Commission for those mergers which fall between "the old and the new threshold ...[+++]s" and which have to be notified to several national competition authorities; this approach would save both time and money; - a series of options giving answer to the criticisms formulated, not only by the business world, but equally by certain Member States, as regards cooperative joint venture operations which do not fall under the rules of the Merger Regulation but under the "general" rules regarding competition policy (in particular Article 85 of the Treaty).