Translation of "groupement des dépenses " (French → English) :

front-loaded spending

EU expenditure [ Community expenditure | EC budgetary expenditure | European Union expenditure ]

budgetary expenditure

operational expenditure (EU) [ EC operational expenditure | intervention credit ]

International Group of National Associations of Agrochemical Manufacturers | International Group of National Pesticide Manufacturers' Associations | GIFAP [Abbr.]

Insurers' Advisory Organization Inc. [ Insurers' Advisory Organization (1989) Inc. | Insurers' Advisory Organization of Canada | Canadian Underwriters' Association | Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association ]

Association of the European Manufacturers of Technical Ceramics for Electronic, Electrical, Mechanical and Other Applications [ Association of the EEC Manufacturers of Technical Ceramics for Electronic, Electrical, Mechanical and Other Applications | ECC Group of Producers of Mineral Insulating Material for Electrotechnical Use ]

public expenditure | government expenditure | government expenses | national expenditure

23. Deplores, in this context, that the review of the Athena mechanism, which was due to be carried out by the end of 2014, has produced only very limited results, such as the organisation of a form of pre-financing of certain costs to speed up deployment; regrets that the Council did not reach an agreement on the inclusion of funding for the cost of the strategic deployment of EU battlegroups in the list of common costs systematically borne by Athena, only adopting instead a renewable decision for a two-year period; calls on the next European Council on Defence to consider a further expansion of the common costs eligible under Athena, ...[+++] such as the automatic financing of expenditure on CSDP operational and mission deployment (infrastructure for the accommodation of forces, expenses relating to the establishment of points of entry for troops into theatres of operations and security stocks of food and fuel where necessary);

The VAT Directive exempts from VAT services that cost sharing groups can supply to their members under the following conditions: the members' activities should be exempted from VAT, the shared services should be directly necessary to the members' activities, the group should claim exact reimbursement of each member's share of the joint expenses and finally, such exemption should not cause distortions of competition.

Aids which are granted to producer groups or associations to cover expenses which are not linked to start-up costs, such as investments or promotion activities, will be assessed in accordance with the rules governing such aids.

4. The aid must not be paid in respect of costs incurred after the fifth year, or paid following the seventh year after recognition of the producer organisation. This is without prejudice to grant aid towards eligible expenses limited to and resulting from a year-on-year increase in turnover of a beneficiary of at least 30 % where this is due to the accession of new members and/or the coverage of new products.