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1. Anti-foreign sentiment is often stoked by the Chinese government in order to bolster cheap nationalism.
2. Wider and more effective use of ICT and the establishment of a seamless Single Market in electronic communication services will bolster the future competitiveness of European businesses.
3. To bolster the financial resources of Member States thus facilitating the rapid start-up of operational programmes in a crisis context, it is necessary to amend the provisions concerning pre-financing.
4. The Commission would like to point out that the Dutch authorities have also submitted several sensitivity analyses and business scenarios [98] to bolster the robustness of GNA’s business plan further.
5. By reducing the incentive for Alcoa to seek sources of supply other than those offered by the incumbent operator, the compensatory payments may, to a certain extent, have had a negative influence on competition in the retail market to the detriment of all electricity consumers, insofar as they tended to bolster the financial position of the incumbent.
6. The situation prevailing in the Sardinian market, due in part to its isolation, the limited interconnection capacity with mainland Italy and the unfavourable competitive conditions, appeared to warrant, on an exceptional basis, the approval of an operating aid in the form of a preferential tariff for a transitional phasing-out period of around two years [115], in exchange for the adoption of measures to bolster competition in the Sardinian market by way of the establishment of a virtual power plant or VPP [116].
7. In a letter dated 19 January 2007 (hereinafter ‘the 2007 letter’), the staff of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition explored the idea of transitional measures for the phasing-out of the tariff in Sardinia. The situation prevailing in the Sardinian market, due in part to its isolation, the limited interconnection capacity with mainland Italy and the unfavourable competitive conditions, appeared to warrant, on an exceptional basis, the approval of an operating aid in the form of a preferential tariff for a transitional phasing-out period of around two years [115], in exchange for the adoption of measures to bolster competition in the Sardinian market by way of the establishment of a virtual power plant or VPP [116].