Translation of "Déséquilibre causé par la condition thermique " (French → English) :

4. Notes that, in any case, the ESM/EMF should be based on solidarity, subject to strict conditionality rules and financed, inter alia, by innovative financing tools and/or by the fines applied to Member States as the outcome of excessive deficit proceedings or of measures in relation to excessive debt or excessive imbalances if corresponding provision is included in the legislative package on economic governance currently being negotiated, and in the form required in accordance with such provision;

J. whereas, although subcontracting has many positive aspects and has allowed for increased production capacity, it is also generating some economic and social imbalances among workers and might foster a race to the bottom in working conditions, which is a matter of concern,

This may occur in particular where studies on the impact of future developments are based on unjustifiable hypotheses; or where recommended standard policy conditions contain clauses which create, to the detriment of the policyholder, a significant imbalance between the rights and obligations arising from the contract; or where groups are used or managed in such a way as to give one or more participating undertakings the means of acquiring or reinforcing a position of significant market power on the relevant market, or if these groups result in market sharing.

I shall, of course, give the Commission an opportunity to add to some of the observations that I shall be making. I would like to start by emphasising the need we all feel, at EU level, to reconcile the extraordinary development and progress that we have seen in many areas of life – not least because of the marked technological impetus over recent years, which has benefited people in all walks of life, throughout the world, in terms of well-being and improvements in living conditions – with the fact that, at the same time, there has been a substant ...[+++]ial increase in the pronounced imbalances between some regions and geopolitical areas of the world. This endangers the stability of the international system and jeopardises peace. We are all therefore duty-bound to seek to match our policies better to this objective of achieving greater stability and greater balance in the various parts of our planet.

For example, taking into account the characteristics and extent of the crisis, such measures could: - adjust market capacity to demand, particularly by means of a temporary freeze on any increases in the number of Community, bilateral or national authorizations, provided these measures could not jeopardize the suppression of quotas from 1 January 1993; COM(90) 64 - 2 - - for a given period, limit the maximum tonnage authorized for each undertaking; - issue licences to transport operators entering the market which is in a state of crisis for the first time at a rate consonant with the capacity of the market or make the issuing of such licences subject to conditions such as t ...[+++]he following: . the applicant must already have complied for a given period with the Community provisions on access to the occupation of road hauler; . over 50% of the assets of the transport undertaking in question must be financed from its own resources; . the operator must be independent of any transport undertaking already in the market in question; - make the registration of new vehicles conditional upon the operator taking out of service an amount of vehicles capacity at least equivalent to that of the new vehicles. - promote the conversion of transport undertakings, or the redeployment of their employees, to activities outside the market in question, with the provisor that these measures do not cause an imbalance elsewhere in the market; - encourage small and medium-sized undertakings to combine to reduce their logistical and management costs.

WHEREAS the people of Nunavik, in the Province of Quebec, most of whom are Inuit, are experiencing a fiscal imbalance owing to the fact that their cost of living is exorbitant compared with that of Canadians living south of the fifty-fifth parallel; WHEREAS the people of Nunavik are cut off from other Canadians geographically, economically and politically, and their living conditions are desperate and deteriorating further because of isolation and distance; WHEREAS the high cost of transportation has a direct impact on the cost of goods and services, and this seriously limits people's purchasing power; WHEREAS, on a per capita basis, ...[+++]the Inuit are the most heavily taxed people in Canada; WHEREAS the level of taxation erodes people's savings and makes it extremely difficult for small businesses to operate at a profit; WHEREAS tax relief is necessary to promote economic prosperity and social well-being in Nunavik; WHEREAS the Parliament of Canada recognizes the need to act in order to remove the economic injustice endured by the people of Nunavik; WHEREAS studies carried out by various institutions have strongly recommended changes to the tax system in order to exempt the Inuit of Nunavik from paying income tax;