Examples of using Outstanding commitments in English and their translations into Portuguese
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In March 2001 there were 187 outstanding commitments.
The reduction of outstanding commitments to a normal level by December 2003;
The Commission has made a considerable effort to reduce the volume of outstanding commitments.
It states that the increase in outstanding commitments has never been as high.
Outstanding commitments remain the biggest problem with the EU budget.
Breakdown of dormant sleeping commitments(TRO): Projects with outstanding commitments of over €1 million.
In the spring outstanding commitments under the Structural Funds reached EUR 80 billion.
Projects which have been dormant since before 1999(old outstanding commitments) are not included in this table.
At the same time outstanding commitments have skyrocketed and at present are reaching the EUR 126 billion mark.
The current level of spending involves only a limited reduction in the level of outstanding commitments.
For Sapard and ISPA, the outstanding commitments totalled more than EUR 4 billion.
The Commission maintains its view that the n+ 2 rule will stabilise the level of outstanding commitments.
At the end of 2002, a considerable amount of outstanding commitments had been accumulated for all three programmes.
External action received increased payment appropriations in order to help clear outstanding commitments.
We have had enormous problems with outstanding commitments that have accumulated in our general external aid.
Outstanding commitments now amount to around EUR 107 billion, or more than the EU's total budget for one year.
It is true,as the rapporteur rightly pointed out, that many outstanding commitments still remained to be paid at the end of 1999.
However, of the outstanding commitments at the end of 2002, less than 12% related to years earlier than 2000.
A consequence of all this is that the SCR today has over EUR 21 billion in outstanding commitments awaiting payments.
Outstanding commitments now stand at more than EUR 90 billion, or almost the equivalent of the budget for three years.
As a consequence of the systematic over-estimation of expenditure, outstanding commitments in respect of the Structural Funds have increased.
A growing stock of outstanding commitments is a normal feature of multi-annual programming such as that in the structural funds.
This compares with an increase of 6,7% for payments andreflects the concentration on closing outstanding commitments.
In line with the objective of reducing outstanding commitments, the payment appropriations for this heading are 3.8% up on 2002.
In 2004, the accelerated implementation allowed seven out of the fifteen Member States to decrease their outstanding commitments in absolute terms.
The total level of outstanding commitments should therefore always be seen in the light of the remaining time span for execution of the remaining payments.
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The Commission also provides an annual report on the evolution of outstanding commitments(RAL) and the successful efforts to eliminate“abnormal RAL”.
Outstanding commitments are a composite phenomenon: some are physiological whereas others are pathological, and it is on the latter that action needs to be taken.
In the area of financial management,the Commission has made good progress in reducing outstanding commitments and funds to be recovered.