Brussels, 22/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - As proposed by Michaele Schreyer, the European Commission adopted a series of criteria on Wednesday designed to make decisions on a case-by-case basis when the full recovery of a debt is not a practically option (in other words, when "proportionality", as a general principle of law, must apply). By adopting the guidelines, the Commission is demonstrating that is has decided to act on the criticisms levelled by the European Parliament and the Court of...