Source text: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Money
Market Funds, pages 1–6.


VOCABULARY

1 Read the text and explain the meaning of these words and collocations in context:

joint declaration (p.1)

                           entities (p.4)

codecision procedure

                           exposure

dossier

                           on the demand side

conciliation

                           assets

compromise amendment

                           to redeem

provisional agreement (p.3)

                           to trigger

substantially

                           a redemption request

transmission (p.4)



2 Complete the missing prepositions:

1.      They have been working on the proposal ____ the regulation of the European Parliament.

2.      The fines are imposed pursuant ____ Article 323.

3.      This resolution needs to be submitted ____ the committee by the 20 June.

4.      All applications shall be unanimously approved ____ the plenary.

5.      Regarding migration, the Commission calls ____ all parties to sustain progress and make
further progress.

6.      The President was urged to forward his position ____ the Council.


3 Complete the table:

Noun

       Adjective

decline



       difficult


       resilient

support


excess



CONNECTORS

1 Write your own sentences using these connective devices:

thereof, whereas, in turn, due to, depending on, therefore, in particular


2 What are the possible meanings of whereas? What is its meaning in the text?


3 Explain the meaning of hereinafter in the sentence:

Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set out. (p.3)



READING Whenever possible, answer in complete sentences.

1 What are the main points of the introduction?

2 What is the purpose of the information presented on page 3?

3 Think of proper titles for the first 6 individual paragraphs.