This reform seeks to prevent the long delays in clearance decisions, which have been criticised frequently by the Court of Auditors.

A clearance decision occurs depending on the TE access description (matrix.)

Appeals panels and lawyers have used it to deal with security clearance decisions, and it has also been proven useful to Employee Assistance Counselors.

Amendments 3, 4 and 5 are all reducing the 36month period used in clearance of accounts to determine the expenses which can be the subject of a clearance decision.

In its reports of investigation reviewing security clearance decisions, CRI classifies a negative action taken by a responsible management official as a "unfavorable personnel security determination" (USPD) and then applies title 5 standards to its review.

The Court of First Instance annuls the Commission's clearance decision of the merger of Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann Music Group to form Sony BMG forcing the Commission to re-assess the merger.

Financial corrections to agricultural payments, such as those deriving from the Commission's annual clearance decisions in the framework of the balancing procedure, relate to large sums, which the Member States have to repay to the Community budget as corrections or financial penalties because of their failure to establish adequate control systems.

Later testimony from Gonzales and others confirmed that Ashcroft did not seem disoriented, but in fact seemed lucid enough to describe to Card and Gonzales, in great detail, the basis of the Department's legal arguments, and even to complain about clearance decisions by the President relative to the TSP.