Translation of "Canadian Bar Law for the Future Fund " (English → French) :

welcome the reforms made by Azerbaijani authorities in the judiciary, with a view to ensuring greater independence of judges, improving selection and appointment procedures and eliminating judicial corruption and susceptibility to the influence of the executive; acknowledge that the relevant laws, including the law on the Bar, have been adopted; encourage the authorities in charge to continue implementing legislation to combat corruption and focus on high-level corruption cases as well as to improve significantly the transparency of public expenditure and political party funding ...[+++]; emphasise the need to improve the independence, efficiency and resources of the judiciary; reiterate the importance of the court system functioning free from political interference; stress the need to establish a convincing track record of recruiting and appointing judges and state prosecutors based on the application of uniform, transparent, objective and nationally-applicable criteria and to build up an enforcement record of prosecutions and convictions against which progress can be measured; call for the unification of jurisprudence in order to ensure a predictable judicial system and public trust;

16. Stresses that the EGF should continue to fund only those active labour market measures which are additional to the measures provided for under national law in the event of mass redundancies; proposes, furthermore, that in future the allowances supported by the EGF should always be coupled with training or retraining measures also financed by the EGF, and that they should not replace allowances provided for under national or Community law or collective agreements;

Moreover, according to the case-law, although Member States have wide discretion to define what they regard as services of general economic interest, the definition of such services or tasks by a Member State can be questioned by the Commission in the event of a manifest error . In other words, although the determination of the nature and scope of an SGEI mission falls within the competence and discretionary powers of Member States, such competence is neither unlimited nor can it be exercised arbitrarily . In particular, for an activity to be considered as an SGEI, it should exhibit special characteristics as compared with ordinary economic activities . In this respect, the Commission will consider that in areas where private investors have ...[+++] already invested in a broadband network infrastructure (or are in the process of expanding further their network infrastructure) and are already providing competitive broadband services with an adequate broadband coverage, setting up a parallel competitive and publicly-funded broadband infrastructure should not be considered as an SGEI within the meaning of Article 86 of the Treaty . Where however it can be demonstrated that private investors may not be in a position to provide in the near future adequate broadband coverage to all citizens or users leaving thus a significant part of the population unconnected, a public service compensation may be granted to an undertaking entrusted with the operation of an SGEI provided that the conditions set out in paragraphs 25 to 29 are met.

N. whereas in parallel to this Communitisation of criminal law through jurisprudence, the Commission, without any mandate or any basis under the Treaties, had already begun work on a draft 'European Civil Code', which is being prepared by something called the 'Von Bar' group and is funded to the tune of EUR 4 400 000 under the Cordis programme; whereas, wherever it would doubtless make sense to establish an indicative reference framework to facilitate the comparison of national laws ...[+++] (along the lines of the 'restatements' used in the USA), preparations are instead being made under this unification project to do away with bodies of national civil law in areas as diverse as contracts, liability, the family, legal guarantees, etc.,

In its reply at the opening of the formal investigation, given the impossibility of predicting the future closing price of the OTE share, the Greek authorities formally undertook to repeal Law No 3371/2005 should the value of the 4 % stake exceed the amount of EUR 390,4 million on the day of its transfer to the pension fund and to take any other necessary measure to ensure that the value of the shares to be transferred to TAP-OTE w ...[+++]ould not exceed EUR 390,4 million.

(42) The assets transferred, i.e. nominal capital, capital reserves, the Land housing promotion fund and other claims of Wfa, as well as any future return flows from housing loans, remained earmarked for housing promotion under Article 2, Section 16(2) of the law even after their transfer to WestLB.