Translation of "Temps de réalisation planifié " (French → English) :

Minister, you said that funding was allocated, but how much money goes back to the government because people didn't have the time to carry out the projects they had planned?

If they receive the money too late, they don't have time to carry out the projects they had planned and they have to return that money to the government.

Given the significant time necessary to plan and then execute such projects, it is important that the Community invest in such infrastructure immediately so that it may, in particular, accelerate the development of projects of particular importance to the security of energy supply within the Community.

Mr. Chair, just to reinforce what my colleague has said, one of the biggest lessons learned was to have early communication and notification—this is what we heard from our medical community and from the provinces and territories—so that they could plan ahead and know how long to plan for.

At the same time, Member States should have sufficient time to undertake the necessary work.

a Commission communication would be published in the Official Journal at the end of January announcing a future cut in the Community quota so that beet growers could plan and organise their sowing and the subsequent harvest in good time; the Council Regulation on the sugar reform would then be officially adopted as an "A" item, probably at the next meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 20 February; once the Council Regulation had been adopted, the management committee on sugar would propose applying a quota cut at the end of February.