Translation of "general exclusions sectorial committee " (English → French) :

To the Committee’s knowledge, no other federal parliamentary committee has written a report devoted exclusively to rural poverty, although rural poverty has emerged as a theme in some more general studies of poverty such as the 1971 Special Senate Committee on Poverty’s report, Poverty in Canada (the Croll Committee report).

– (PT) Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, as draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism on the White Paper on services of general interest, my position, and that of the committee, has been to advocate the complete exclusion of services of general interest (SGIs) from the scope of the directive on internal market services, in accordance with the idea that each Member State has the exclusive competence to defin ...[+++]e, fund, evaluate and monitor these services, as confirmed by Parliament.

The committee's concern was that the Aviation Safety Agency's general political independence, for the issues involved are exclusively of a technical nature, in which decisions are to be taken by authoritative experts and specialists rather than by politicians in Parliament or the Council. It was also important to guarantee the Agency's autonomy, meaning that the Executive Director really is the head of the authority and, at the same time, that the Mana ...[+++]gement Board is in a position to lay down appropriate guidelines for the Agency and influence the way in which it works.

As to whether the power of the Internal Economy Committee is limited to the adoption and administration of general policies, to the exclusion of decisions relating to individual senators, I know of no such limitation.

There is also a need to harmonize, strengthen and practise enforcement rules on an EU level; - Exhaustion of Rights: Except in certain limited cases, an intellectual property right holder should retain full control over the importation and further distribution of products incorporating its intellectual property rights; - Digitization is a copying method and should in principle be treated the same as any other method of copying; - Private copying: it is vital that unlicensed copying for commercial purposes should be clearly forbidden; - Technical protection: it is not appropriate the Committee says to require right owners or manufactu ...[+++]rers to follow any particular regime of technical protection but, if one is followed, then it should be unlawful to assist in circumventing it; - Digital broadcasting: there should be no distinction between analogue and digital broadcasts; - Digital dissemination or transmission right: transmission should be covered by the exclusive rights of the right holder, including the exclusive right to make works available to the general public; - Moral rights: the ease with which digital works can be altered implies strong moral rights.

As to whether the power of the Internal Economy Committee is limited to the adoption and administration of general policies, to the exclusion of decisions relating to individual Senators, I know of no such limitation.