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This is a kind of survey paper which gives an account, mostly without proofs, of results obtained in the author's Ph.D.\ thesis on the local classification of bi-Hamiltonian structures. After the necessary preliminaries about Poisson-Nijenhuis manifolds \((M,\Lambda,N)\) and the notion of regularity of a point with respect to \(N\), there are two sections about symplectic Poisson-Nijenhuis structures. In the first one, fundamental results about their decomposition are discussed, which come from the factorization of the characteristic polynomial of \(N\). In the second one, we get a thorough analysis of the resulting classification of the local normal forms of \((\Lambda,N)\), whereby the manifold \(M\) can be real or complex. Sections 5 and 6 follow a fairly similar pattern for the case of an odd dimensional Poisson-Nijenhuis manifold satisfying a maximal rank condition. More precisely, Section 5 tells us about the symplectification of the structure by adding an extra dimension. Section 6 then uses this symplectification and the preceding results to arrive at a normal form classification for the odd dimensional case by passing to the quotient. In the final section, the author determines the local model of the hierarchy of Poisson tensors generated by the recursion operator \(N\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00032].