has also come under fire from the country's international creditors for failing to implement long overdue structural reforms.

The changes, which include streamlining of loss-making public utilities, ending profligate practices in the health service and opening up scores of Greece's notoriously "closed" professions, are seen as crucial in liberalising the European Union's least competitive economy.

While a record number of reforms have been passed by the Greek parliament over the past year, few have been implemented despite unprecedented pressure from international organisations such as the IMF and EU.

Tax evasion has also played a major role in revenue shortfalls. Although Athens recently announced draconian legislation penalising tax dodgers, it has been slammed for inadequately addressing the problem.

Instead, analysts say, there is a growing sense of paralysis with the the government besetof movement of the surface of the photoconductor. The conductive elastic blade is held in contact with the photoconductor and is supplied with a voltage having a polarity opposite that of the cleaning roller.
Residual toner on the surface of the photoconductor has a wide distribution of polarized particles thereon, and therefore the residual toner, which is charged to the same polarity as the cleaning roller, cannot be removed only with a cleaning member to which a voltage of one polarity is applied. However, with the above-described electrostatic cleaning unit, residual toner remaining on the surface of the photoconductor even after the transfer operation receives a charge from the elastic blade when passing a portion where the cleaning blade contacts the photoconductor. Thus, the charged state of the toner