Translation of "barème des points d'évaluation " (French → English) :

6. For lumps sums, standard scale of unit costs and flat rate financing, the no-profit and the co-financing rules laid down in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall be reasonably ensured at the time of their determination or at the stage of the evaluation of the grant application.

81. Considers the demographic challenge a key factor for the future staff and budgetary evolution; invites the Commission to assess moderating factors, such as a rise of the weekly working time and pensions qualification age; sees the need to review the payment schemes for junior staff at AD 5 entry level for specialised vocations to ensure the competitiveness of the Union as an employer;

C. whereas the interim measures represent a quantitative increase in controls: introduction of a maximum guaranteed quantity by Member State (see paragraph 12 of the Court's observations), additional conditions for the approval of mills, quality control of olive oil, obligation on growers to keep records, imposition of a scale of penalties, specific on-the-spot checks, control coverage between 1 and 10 % of the growers" declarations, additional cursory checks on mills and in-depth cross-checks for suppliers and consignees (paragraph 13 of the Court's observations),

But I have a somewhat more positive spin than you, because I would argue that, flawed as it is in many ways, our immigration system is superior to that of the U.S. from an economic point of view, in that we have our points system.

But I'm suggesting we might build on our strengths, because we already have this points system and we're trying to improve it by changing the structure of that points system.

Approximately 60% of our immigrants are economic immigrants chosen for their skills and 40% family, whereas in the U.S. I think it's about 90% family and they don't have a points system.