diff --git a/eu/euproposal.cls b/eu/euproposal.cls
index 700799a..b80eaca 100644
--- a/eu/euproposal.cls
+++ b/eu/euproposal.cls
@@ -158,7 +158,8 @@
 \define@key{mst}{wdeliv}{\gdef\mst@wdeliv{#1}}
 \define@key{mst}{wverif}{\gdef\mst@wverif{#1}}
 \newcommand\milestonetable[1][]{%
-\IfFileExists{\jobname.delivs}{% to avoid errros
+\IfFileExists{./\jobname.deliverables}{% to avoid errros
+\message{euproposal.cls: Generating Milestones Table}%
 \def\mst@caption{Milestones, Deliverables, and Verification}%
 \def\mst@wname{2.5cm}\def\mst@wdeliv{7cm}\def\mst@wverif{4cm}
 \setkeys{mst}{#1}%
@@ -186,7 +187,9 @@
 \mst@lines
 \end{tabular}
 \caption{\mst@caption\ ($^\ast$\miles@legend)}\label{tab:milestonetable}
-\end{table}}}
+\end{table}}
+{\ClassWarning{not formatting mile stones table yet, deliverables are
+  still missing; generate\jobname.deliverables\ to get it!}}}
 \newcommand\miles@legend@name{Name}
 \newcommand\miles@legend@mo{Mo}
 \newcommand\miles@legend@verif{Means of Verif.}
diff --git a/eu/euproposal.dtx b/eu/euproposal.dtx
index c3f28fe..202dd97 100644
--- a/eu/euproposal.dtx
+++ b/eu/euproposal.dtx
@@ -537,14 +537,16 @@
 % \end{macro}
 % 
 % \begin{macro}{milestonetable}
-% here we do the work. 
+% here we do the work, but only if the file |\jobname.deliverables| exists to make sure
+% that the deliverables macros are really defined.
 %    \begin{macrocode}
 \define@key{mst}{caption}{\gdef\mst@caption{#1}}
 \define@key{mst}{wname}{\gdef\mst@wname{#1}}
 \define@key{mst}{wdeliv}{\gdef\mst@wdeliv{#1}}
 \define@key{mst}{wverif}{\gdef\mst@wverif{#1}}
 \newcommand\milestonetable[1][]{%
-\IfFileExists{\jobname.delivs}{% to avoid errros
+\IfFileExists{./\jobname.deliverables}{% to avoid errros
+\message{euproposal.cls: Generating Milestones Table}%
 \def\mst@caption{Milestones, Deliverables, and Verification}%
 \def\mst@wname{2.5cm}\def\mst@wdeliv{7cm}\def\mst@wverif{4cm}
 \setkeys{mst}{#1}%
@@ -572,7 +574,9 @@
 \mst@lines
 \end{tabular}
 \caption{\mst@caption\ ($^\ast$\miles@legend)}\label{tab:milestonetable}
-\end{table}}}
+\end{table}}
+{\ClassWarning{not formatting mile stones table yet, deliverables are
+  still missing; generate\jobname.deliverables\ to get it!}}}
 %    \end{macrocode}
 % now the multilinguality support 
 %    \begin{macrocode}
diff --git a/eu/euproposal.pdf b/eu/euproposal.pdf
index 9132f47..bfad174 100644
Binary files a/eu/euproposal.pdf and b/eu/euproposal.pdf differ
diff --git a/examples/eu/strep/Makefile b/examples/eu/strep/Makefile
index 0fcde12..6efd499 100644
--- a/examples/eu/strep/Makefile
+++ b/examples/eu/strep/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ TBIB.pdf 	= $(TBIB:%.tex=%.pdf)         	  # PDFs to be produced
 TBIB.aux 	= $(TBIB:%.tex=%.aux)             # their aux files.
 PDATA 		= $(PROPOSAL:%.tex=%.pdata)       # the proposal project data
 SRC = $(filter-out $(TARGET),$(shell ls *.tex))   # included files
-PDFLATEX = pdflatex -interaction batchmode -file-line-error
+PDFLATEX = pdflatex -interaction scrollmode -file-line-error
 PROPCLS.dir = $(PROP.dir)/base
 PROPETC.dir = $(PROP.dir)/etc
 EUPROPCLS.dir = $(PROP.dir)/eu