Translation of "Transactions sur matières premières " (French → English) :

‘spot commodity contract’ means a contract for the supply of a commodity traded on a spot market which is promptly delivered when the transaction is settled, and a contract for the supply of a commodity that is not a financial instrument, including a physically settled forward contract;

the extent to which orders to trade given or transactions undertaken by persons with a significant buying or selling position in a financial instrument, a related spot commodity contract, or an auctioned product based on emission allowances, lead to significant changes in the price of that financial instrument, related spot commodity contract, or auctioned product based on emission allowances;

Derivative contracts relating to commodities are also covered, while physical commodity transactions are not.

The estimated total budget required for this programme is 110 million ECU broken down as follows: RAW MATERIALS: - Primary raw materials (prospecting, mining 30 million ECU engineering and ore processing) - Secondary raw materials (recycling of non- ferrous metals and utilization of waste) 22 million ECU - Wood as a renewable raw material (wood production and utilization) 20 million ECU ADVANCED MATERIALS: 38 million ECU - Metal alloys - Technical ceramics - Composites The funds are to be used primarily for shared-cost research contracts (Community participation up to 50%) with industry, research laboratories and universities.

In this instance, in which the place of origin is considered to be the place where the goods are when the supply is effected or the transport commences, can one resolve the difficulties encountered today: - by taxable persons who carry out transactions in a Member State in which they are not established; - by the principal of an intra-Community processing operation when he supplies the goods (as raw materials or as a processed product) from the Member State in which processing has taken place; - with storage in a Member State other than that of establishment, or where goods are supplied directly from the place of storage; - with the s ...[+++]upply of goods acquired in another Member State when the transport to the final acquirer begins in that Member State, in which the taxable person is not established; - in providing a simple form of tax treatment for chain transactions, given the taxation of all the intermediary transactions in the Member State in which the goods are located.

Contents - One of the essential elements of the agreement is the respect of human rights as defined in the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris (art. 1); - Both parties agree to accord each other most-favoured-nation treatment in accordance with the GATT; - Specific quantitative restrictions are abolished for Community imports; - Concerning commercial co-operation, actions relating to exchange of commercial and economic information, customs co-operation, development of contacts and links between enterprises, adoption of arbitration for the settlement of disputes arising out of commercial and co-operation transactions and the protection ...[+++]by Albania of intellectual property rights are envisaged in the agreement; - Economic co-operation only concerns EC and not ECSC.