Traduction de «Le Centre parlementaire » (Français → Anglais) :

Recognizing the importance of our respective legislatures in furthering transatlantic integration, we encourage legislators on both sides of the Atlantic (including the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue) to meet regularly, notably to discuss economic policy issues and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on their potential transatlantic impact.

The idea of a Legislative Council was central to the separation of the powers in the European democracy, central to Parliamentary control of the Council, central to the public character of European lawmaking and to the idea of its proximity to the citizen – yet it was disposed of at the first sitting!

The statute is important, but it must also include Members’ prerogatives; in other words, it must not be a statute centred solely on the financial side of being a Member of Parliament.

– (IT) Mr President, I wish to denounce the unacceptable behaviour of Mr Schmid, who was acting President this morning, who during the debate allowed some left-wing Members to make really personal attacks on Members of the Italian centre-right and in particular the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, as well as involving President Fontaine by accusing her somehow of blocking in an evidently improper manner the request to waive Mr Berlusconi’s parliamentary immunity.

The preceding paragraph shall also apply to members of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement, to the arbitrators who may be appointed under the Agreement, to members of the consultative bodies of the economic and social sectors which may be set up, to the officials and employees of these institutions, and also to the members of the agencies of the European Investment Bank and its staff, and to the staff of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise and the Centre for the Development of Agriculture.

Group No. 4 Mr. Harper (Calgary West), seconded by Mr. Silye (Calgary-Centre), moved Motion No. 39, That Bill C-85, in Clause 20, be amended by adding after line 38, on page 19, the following: `` ``beneficiary" means the spouse or child of a deceased former member; ``outside income deduction" means the same amount or percentage that, pursuant to the Income Tax Act would be deducted in a year from a payment to the former member or beneficiary under the Old Age Security Act, in respect of other personal or household income received, if the former member or beneficiary was entitled to receive such a payment during th ...[+++]e year in question (2) From the amount payable to a former member or beneficiary in each year under this Act shall be deducted an outside income deduction calculated in accordance with this section (3) The Governor in Council may make regulations (a) defining the other personal and household income to be taken into account for the purposes of this section, which is to be equivalent to that taken into account in calculating a deduction under the Old Age Security Act; (b) requiring a former member to report an estimate of other income for every year before the commencement of the year and to report the actual amount of other income after the end of the year; (c) providing for the amount to be deducted under this section to be deducted in instalments from periodic payments to a former member or a beneficiary under this Act. 59. 2 (1) In this section," .