The part of the socially owned capital allocated for the internal buyout was transferred to the Ordinary Shares Fund, and these shares were subject to a 25 percent discount.

This latter measure, which is a new priority, could be implemented nationally as part of specific conversion measures and would accompany and develop synergies with the quota buy-back programme.

Under these provisions, a company transfers to the Development Fund the part of the socially-owned capital as specified in the internal buyout scheme. These shares are sold at 25% discount and more than one-third of the employees must participate in the buyout.

'We concluded that Pro Plus purchased so many programs that all of them could not be broadcast on POP TV.[] As for its content, the target audience is the younger generation[] We see Gajba as a niche for younger audience, say, those who currently stick to Kanal A' said Branko Čakarmiš, the program director of Pro Plus, in September 1997.

The following paragraph is added to Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 2182/2002:"By way of derogation from Article 17(3), the 31 March 2004 deadline for the notification of projected plans for the financing of measures for which assistance has been requested under the buy-back programme for the 2003 harvest shall be postponed to 31 May 2004 and, consequently, by way of derogation from Article 17(4), the 31 May 2004 deadline shall be postponed to 30 June 2004."

The council members denied all "insinuations about bribery," but at the same meeting they endorsed the purchase of offices from a company whose director was the representative of the employers' association in the Council (Grega Repovž, "Svet drobnih povezav"/The World of Tiny Connections, in Delo's Sobotna priloga (Saturday Supplement), January 27, 2001).

Since to date the rtv Council has not adopted the document that defines the procedure, conditions and criteria for the public invitation, and since rtv Slovenia has not yet issued an annual public invitation for the purchase of works by independent producers, it will not be able to meet the requirement that programs by independent producers must account for at least 10% of the annual air time of rtv Slovenia as stipulated by Article 92 (paragraph three) of the Mass Media Act.

The quantities of groups of high-quality varieties exempt from quota buyback for the 2000 harvest are as follows:

determining the sensitive production areas and/or the groups of high-quality varieties exempt from application of the quota buyback programme in raw tobacco

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1534/2000 of 13 July 2000 determining the sensitive production areas and/or the groups of high-quality varieties exempt from application of the quota buyback programme in raw tobacco

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1578/2001 of 1 August 2001 determining the sensitive production areas and/or the groups of high-quality varieties exempt from application of the quota buyback programme in raw tobacco

the loss of rights regarding the quota buy-back programme provided for in Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92; and

It is also noted that KDB bought all Hynix bonds, even those allegedly intended for the CBO programme.

amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 laying down detailed rules for the application of the quota buy-back programme in the raw tobacco sector

Under Article 34(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the premium scheme, production quotas and the specific aid to be granted to producer groups in the raw tobacco sector (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1249/2000 (4), the Commission must determine, on the basis of proposals from the Member States, which sensitive production areas and/or groups of high-quality varieties, up to a maximum of 25 % of each Member State's guarantee threshold, are to be exempt from application of the quota buyback programme.

Whereas, pursuant to Article 34(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the premium scheme, production quotas and the specific aid to be granted to producer groups in the raw tobacco sector (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1373/1999 (4), the Commission must determine, on the basis of proposals from the Member States, which sensitive production areas and/or groups of high-quality varieties, up to a maximum of 25 % of each Member State's guarantee threshold, are to be exempt from application of the quota buyback programme;

The Fund must guarantee assistance for producers to switch production across the whole Community and must operate in collaboration with the quota buy-back programme.

the amount of the annual premium - for quantities of raw tobacco covered by the quota above 40 tonnes for which the producer has been paid under the buy-back programme.

three times the amount of the annual premium - for quantities of raw tobacco covered by the quota up to and including 10 tonnes for which the producer has been paid under the buy-back programme;

twice the amount of the annual premium - for quantities of raw tobacco covered by the quota between 10 and 40 tonnes for which the producer has been paid under the buy-back programme;

The programme should be made more attractive for small producers by modulating the buy-back prices according to the size of the production quota, in order to help them switch production.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1983/2002 of 7 November 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 laying down detailed rules for the application of the quota buy-back programme in the raw tobacco sector

The beneficiaries of the measures referred to in Article 13 shall be tobacco producers who have been participating in the buy-back programme provided for in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2075/92 since the 2002 harvest and whose quota irrevocably bought back is a quantity equal to or greater than 500 kg.

(33) Stabilisation of financial instruments or trading in own shares in buy-back programmes can be legitimate, in certain circumstances, for economic reasons and should not, therefore, in themselves be regarded as market abuse.

(1) The criteria for setting the price at which storage agencies buy in unprocessed dried figs and unprocessed dried grapes are laid down in Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and the conditions on which the storage agencies buy in and manage the products are laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1622/1999 of 23 July 1999 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as regards the scheme for the storage of unprocessed dried grapes and unprocessed dried figs fn.

(1) Article 2(1) and (3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1176/2000(4), lays down, respectively, the price to be paid per kilogram of animals going into the scheme provided by that Regulation, and the rate per animal at which the Community shall co-finance the purchases of the animals.

By way of derogation from Article 17(3), the 31 March 2004 deadline for the notification of projected plans for the financing of measures for which assistance has been requested under the buy-back programme for the 2003 harvest shall be postponed to 31 May 2004 and, consequently, by way of derogation from Article 17(4), the 31 May 2004 deadline shall be postponed to 30 June 2004."

The prohibitions provided for in this Directive shall not apply to trading in own shares in "buy-back" programmes or to the stabilisation of a financial instrument provided such trading is carried out in accordance with implementing measures adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17(2).

By derogation from Article 17(3), the notification deadline for the financing plans for the measures for which assistance has been applied for under the buy-back programme for the 2002 harvest shall be put back from 31 March 2003 to 31 May 2003, and, consequently, by derogation from Article 17(4), the deadline of 31 May 2003 shall be put back to 30 June 2003.

Whereas certain quantities of dried grapes and dried figs from the 1983 harvest, bought by storage agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2194/81 of 27 July 1981 laying down the general rules for the system of production aid for dried figs and dried grapes (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2057/84 (6), are still in stock;

Assistance should be provided for measures to discourage smoking, and in particular for improving public awareness of the dangers of tobacco consumption, and funding should be provided for specific measures to encourage tobacco producers to switch production, in collaboration with the quota buy-back programme, and for studies into the possibilities for encouraging producers to switch to other crops or activities.

It also needs to be noted that the amount foreseen to be spent on Hynix bonds from the start was considerable in comparison to Hynix's turnover; KRW 2,9 trillion was more than 70 % of the Hynix 2001 turnover. (77) That Hynix was not going to be able to repay this new financing became evident during the course of the programme, as its position was reviewed monthly in the context of decisions by the banks on which bonds should be purchased each month.

Article 36 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the premium scheme, production quotas and the specific aid to be granted to producer groups in the raw tobacco sector(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1501/2002(4), set the amounts to which producers were entitled whose quotas were bought under the quota buy-back programme during the 1999, 2000, 2001 and subsequent harvests.

the issuer has in place a time-scheduled "buy-back" programme;

"BUY-BACK" PROGRAMMES

"time-scheduled 'buy-back' programme" means a "buy-back" programme where the dates and quantities of securities to be traded during the time period of the programme are set out at the time of the public disclosure of the "buy-back" programme;

The "buy-back" programme must comply with the conditions laid down by Article 19(1) of Directive 77/91/EEC.

Objectives of buy-back programmes

Paragraph 1 shall apply solely to producers furnishing proof that growing contracts have been concluded in the last three years for the quotas involved in the buy-back programme.

Whereas a quota buy-back scheme should be set up with a corresponding reduction of the guarantee thresholds in order to facilitate the voluntary departure from the sector of individual producers;

Conditions for "buy-back" programmes and disclosure

In order to benefit from the exemption provided for in Article 8 of Directive 2003/6/EC, a buy-back programme must comply with Articles 4, 5 and 6 of this Regulation and the sole purpose of that buy-back programme must be to reduce the capital of an issuer (in value or in number of shares) or to meet obligations arising from any of the following:

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1823/1999 of 20 August 1999 determining the sensitive production areas and/or the groups of high-quality varieties exempt from application of the quota buyback programme in raw tobacco

From 1 July 2002, after a transitional period during which the previous buying-in arrangements are to continue to apply, Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 introduces a single buying-in scheme to replace the buying-in arrangements provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68(2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1633/98(3).

Under Article 14(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 and excluding sensitive production areas and/or groups of high-quality varieties as defined in paragraph 2, a quota buy-back programme with corresponding reduction of the guarantee thresholds referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 shall be introduced to facilitate the voluntary departure from the sector of individual producers.

Trading in own shares in "buy-back" programmes may be carried out through derivative financial instruments.

In order to prevent market abuse, the daily volume of trading in own shares in "buy-back" programmes shall be limited.

"buy-back programmes" means trading in own shares in accordance with Articles 19 to 24 of Council Directive 77/91/EEC;

Issuers having adopted "buy-back" programmes shall inform their competent authority and, wherever required, the public.

These mechanisms must record each transaction related to "buy-back" programmes, including the information specified in Article 20(1) of Directive 93/22/EEC.