Translation of "Propriété étrangère de terres " (French → English) :

foreign ownership [ non-resident ownership ]

common | common land | commonage

Federal-Provincial Committee on Foreign Ownership of Land

estate tenure | freehold land

Difficulties have been reported, for example, with regard to the treatment of the expatriate personnel of foreign companies, the granting of import licences, foreign ownership and the repatriation of profits.

7. Barriers to trade in services and foreign direct investment such as unjustified foreign ownership caps, joint venture obligations and discriminatory treatment.

16. Calls for a concentrated EU effort against land-grabbing through the promotion of adequate safeguards to prevent it in the countries concerned and among EU and other European companies present in those countries; calls for an assessment of the impact of EU trade policy on land-grabbing, the implementation of the global Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, and the adoption of binding guidelines for preventing land- grabbing; calls on the EU to commit, in line with the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, to ...[+++]a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology as a means of guaranteeing the right to food;

29. Urges the negotiators to avoid the adverse impacts of farm land acquisition (such as expropriation of small farmers and unsustainable use of land and water) by recognising the right of the people to ownership of farmland and other vital natural resources and by adopting guiding principles in this line;