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… burden consumers who effectively bear the costs of such industry discounts for energy. Next to this sectoral approach on burden reductions, Member States may under the 2014 Guidelines grant reductions to individual undertakings if certain requirements are met.109 Further, the scope of the 2014 Guidelines has been broadened and now covers fourteen different series of measures, having introduced four completely new ones and deleting two of the old series which could have been declared … of support schemes of renewable energy. Therefore the Commission chose to apply a special set of conditions when assessing state aid that compensates for the financing of support to energy from renewable sources.119 In total, there are four distinct requirements that need to be fulfilled. They are enumerated in Points (185) through (191) of the 2014 Guidelines. The first requirement mandates that it must be proven that higher costs only ensued to the beneficiary of aid due to the support through … the draft will be adopted, since this might render the EEG-reform again incompatible with EU state aid rules. The EEG-reform is expected to enter into force on 1 August 2014. 131 However, the Commission conceded that the newly introduced restrictive requirements for the surcharge reductions would only have to be implemented by January 2019.132 In order to comply with EU state aid rules, the EEG-reform will introduce changes concerning surcharge reductions for EIUs. According to the draft, around …
… Restructuring Communication aims to show how the Commission will assess aid for the restructuring of banks during the financial crisis. 52 Hereby the principles of the other Communications are complemented. 53 The Communication basically sets out the requirements for a bank´s restructuring plan. Those conditions were in line with the measures taken in Commerzbank, as 48 Ibid, Section 5.5, para 37. 49 Boudghene/Maes, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2012, p. 1 (p. 10). 50 Ibid, Section … under the Restructuring Communication were highly criticized for going far beyond the goal of preventing distortion. 54 ING even commenced proceedings against the Commission´s decision of 18 November 2009 for being out of proportion and exceeding the requirements of restructuring. 55 54 Doleys, European Integration, Vol 34, No. 6, September 2012, p. 549 (561). 55 CEPS Task Force Report, p. 48 et seq. 12 I. Case Studies The practical application of the Communications will be demonstrated by means of … prohibition of new acquisitions. 70 The case of Commerzbank was a quasi-forerunner of the Restructuring Communication. The Communication had been issued shortly after the Commission´s approval of the restructuring plan in May 2009. The strict requirements imposed on Commerzbank by the Commission lead to great uncertainty of market actors who were thus awaiting clarification on the conditions accompanying the approval of a restructuring plan. 71 The Restructuring Communication then laid down …
… 28 4: Structure. The paper will be structured in the following way: After this introductory chapter, the second chapter will provide the reader with an overview of the EU legislation and policy on state aid. The reader will be acquainted with the requirements of the ‘test’ that is utilised by the Commission to establish a finding of state aid that could be incompatible with the internal market. The chapter will introduce the adoption of the Temporary Framework that was specifically designed to … had the biggest banking sectors, the top three being the United Kingdom, France and Germany distributing about 60% of the aid. 92 Despite the fact that the Commission took over 300 approval Decisions, in some of which it imposed strict restructuring requirements upon the recipients of the aid and the magnitude of the financial stakes, there have been relatively few – four – appeals to the European Union Courts, leaving the legal basis of Article 107 (3) (B) TFEU relatively untested. 93 Moreover, … two issues raised by these ‘early exits’. Firstly the possibility that an early exit will grant an extra advantage and secondly that early repayment will actually diminish the amount of aid granted, thereby warranting a reduction in the restructuring requirements imposed by the Commission. This second issue has, until now, not resulted in any decisional practice. 101 3: ING: A First Judicial Review of an ‘Early Exit’ The possibility that an early repayment of a capital injection received by ING …
… 11 Article 2 Replacement exam ................................................................................. 11 Article 3 Flexible bachelor’s programme ................................................................. 12 Article 3a Procedure and requirements of the flexible programme ............................. 12 Article 3b Composition of the flexible bachelor’s programme in Arts and Culture and Cultuurwetenschappen … who completes a final work in the BSc Global Studies programme, the procedure above equally applies to final works completed under this programme. Appropriate arrangements shall be made at the programme level to accommodate the transdisciplinary requirements in the final works. 6 The provisions and rules for first and second graders of final work are listed in the policy document ‘Position on final work at FASoS’ which is available on the FASoS staff intranet. Furthermore, the annually … student who exhibits outstanding skills in performance in the tutorial group meetings will be rewarded with a plus 0.5 (meaning the final grade will be increased by half a point). The student whose quality of participation does not meet the minimum requirements of the PBL skills will be given a minus 0.5 (meaning the final grade being decreased by half a point). During semester 1 of course year 1, the minus is only given for negative behaviour in PBL sessions and excludes weak performance and …
… patent laws be broadly interpreted to identify “AI as inventor”; or third, whether the AI-generated inventions be protected through a new sui generis right. The Study identified that whereas the first two policy options did not impact the current requirements for patentability, the third policy option could be designed in several ways. For example, the new right may have similar requirements as patentability, albeit with a stricter standard for the “inventive step”, and a shorter duration of protection. The results of the Consultation suggest that the current policy, that is the identification of a human inventor on the UK …
… health issues etc., art. 32 below) which lead to substantial study delays, may request special exam arrangements from the Board of Examiners. The arrangements requested must present a (partial) solution to the hardship and must be necessary, both requirements need to be proved by the student. 2. The student is required to prove the hardship as well as the causal link between hardship and study delay, see also art. 32. 3. The hardship has to be communicated in a timely manner, meaning the … appropriate exercise of this authority and the quality of examination, the Board of Examiners of Examiners establishes rules with regard to the construction of the exam (component), the correction process and publication of the results. Article 24: Requirements for the construction of the assessment (component) 1. The assessment (component) takes place in one of the forms approved in the EER. 2. With regard to the assessment (component), a description exists from which at least the elements … of the questions, the distribution of the questions over the course content, the relation between easy, average and difficult questions and the feasibility of the expected detail in the available time. 5. In case of an oral assessment (component), the requirements of paragraph 4 apply accordingly. The questions/statements/cases that may be raised during the oral examination are prepared in advance. A summary grading information is agreed in advance with the second examiner present at the oral …
… health issues etc., art. 32 below) which lead to substantial study delays, may request special exam arrangements from the Board of Examiners. The arrangements requested must present a (partial) solution to the hardship and must be necessary, both requirements need to be proved by the student. 2. The student is required to prove the hardship as well as the causal link between hardship and study delay, see also art. 32. 3. The hardship has to be communicated in a timely manner, meaning the … appropriate exercise of this authority and the quality of examination, the Board of Examiners of Examiners establishes rules with regard to the construction of the exam (component), the correction process and publication of the results. Article 24: Requirements for the construction of the assessment (component) 1. The assessment (component) takes place in one of the forms approved in the EER. 2. With regard to the assessment (component), a description exists from which at least the elements … of the questions, the distribution of the questions over the course content, the relation between easy, average and difficult questions and the feasibility of the expected detail in the available time. 5. In case of an oral assessment (component), the requirements of paragraph 4 apply accordingly. The questions/statements/cases that may be raised during the oral examination are prepared in advance. A summary grading information is agreed in advance with the second examiner present at the oral …
… 3.6.2). The council recommends including this exception in the Rules & Regulations. R. Rennenberg refers to the Examination Committee for this issue as they deal with the Rules & Guidelines. Article 2.4 of the OER Master of Medicine contains the requirements for admission to the GEZP internship. When asked, R. Rennenberg explains, that the GEZP internship is an aptitude test while the WESP internship is more of a data point for the student, so there are no requirements for admission to the WESP internship. Following the curriculum revision in the OER ITM, an appropriate solution will be sought if a student does not meet the transition requirements as defined in the OER after year 1. When asked, R. Rennenberg indicates that students in years 2 and 3 still need to be looked at, but this will be tailor-made in any case. It is not expected that large numbers of students will be …