Translation of "cours des intérêts " (French → English) :

In the situation where a Member State declares that it did not bear any interest costs because it did not have agricultural products in public storage during the reference period, the Commission shall fix that rate on the basis of the average reference interest rates during the reference period referred to in the first paragraph of this point plus one percentage point.

I am prepared to disclose my financial interests and other commitments to the President of the Court and make them public.

15. Recalls, in relation to declarations of members' financial interests, that, in compliance with the Court of Auditors' Code of Conduct, Court of Auditors' members communicate a declaration of their financial interests to the President of the Court of Auditors, who keeps those declarations under confidential custody, and ensures that those declarations are not published; reconfirms its position that in the interests of transparency, declarations of financial interests of members of all Union institutions should be accessible on the Internet via a public register, and calls ...[+++] upon the Court of Auditors to take the necessary steps in this respect and to adapt and base its rules on ‘financial interest’ on the new draft Code of conduct for Commissioners, where applicable;

It was therefore laid down, by way of derogation for the 2007 and 2008 financial years, that, if the average interest rate borne by a Member State in the course of the third month following the reference period used by the Commission for determining the uniform interest rate is more than twice the uniform interest rate, the Commission may, in financing the interest costs incurred by that Member State, cover the amount which corresponds to the interest rate borne by this Member State minus the uniform rate of interest.

The following parameters were taken into account: importance for the budgetary authority and other institutions (in particular the European Parliament, the Council and the European Court of Auditors), the European Court of Auditors' audit findings and recommendations, the findings of the Commission inspection and the action taken on its observations, sensitivity/importance for the Member States and possible interest shown by the media, presumed impact on own resources, number of cases of fraud or irregularities detected, time elapsed since last Commission inspection and specific information from other sources.

The change in the value of the principal outstanding between the beginning and the end of a particular accounting period due to the movement in the relevant index is treated as interest accruing in that period, in addition to any interest due for payment in that period.