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1. The effect of the measure is only to lengthen the period over which it can do so.
2. Moreover, it is clear that in express services railways become more of a competitive tool as traction distances lengthen (speed becoming an increasingly critical factor).”
3. Dexia shall reduce the proportion of short-term funding in its balance sheet and shall lengthen the average maturity of its long-term funding.
4. Where aid is granted to adapt to newly introduced standards at Community level, Member States should not be able to lengthen the adaptation period for farmers by delaying implementation of such rules.
5. Since this product would have to be sourced outside the Community, this would lengthen the supply chain and deteriorate the Community's capability to respond in the event of an outbreak of this disease.
6. ‘The pensions measure’: placing GBP 850 million in an ‘escrow account’ which will lengthen the period over which Royal Mail needs to address the current deficit in its pension fund and will therefore reduce the contributions it makes in the initial years of the period;