I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 108 together since they have been put down in identical terms.
The proposed addition to Article 171 allows the Commission to issue a reasoned opinion specifying the points on which the member state which has not complied with a court ruling must do so and specifying a time limit in which appropriate action must be taken. Failing compliance, it will be open to the Commission to take the matter again to the Court of Justice and in so doing to specify the amount of the lump sum or penalty payment to be paid by the member state concerned. The court may then impose the appropriate lump sum or penalty.
In the Intergovernmental Conference Ireland has indicated that it can agree to this proposal.