Translation of "agent principal de l'information " (French → English) :

Witnesses: From the Department of Finance: Gérard Lalonde, Senior Chief, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch; Lise Potvin, Senior Chief, Employment and Investment; Davine Roach, Chief, Pensions, Resources, Trusts and Insurance; Robert Dubrule, Senior Tax Policy Officer, Tax Policy Division, Pensions, Resources, Trusts and Insurance; Wallace Conway, Chief, Corporate Reorganization & Capital Gains; Grant Nash, Tax Policy Officer, Tax Policy Branch, Business & Property; James R. Greene, Tax Policy Officer, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch; Catherine Cloutier, Senior Tax Policy Officer, General Legal Services Division; Sanjeev Sivarulrasa, Tax Policy Officer, Corporate and International ...[+++] Tax.

3. Articles 7, 13 and 14 shall not apply to the activities of a natural or legal person where, acting as an authorised primary dealer pursuant to an agreement with a sovereign issuer, it is dealing as principal in a financial instrument in relation to primary or secondary market operations relating to the sovereign debt.

‘authorised primary dealer’ means a natural or legal person who has signed an agreement with a sovereign issuer or who has been formally recognised as a primary dealer by or on behalf of a sovereign issuer and who, in accordance with that agreement or recognition, has committed to dealing as principal in connection with primary and secondary market operations relating to debt issued by that issuer;

‘market making activities’ means the activities of an investment firm, a credit institution, a third-country entity, or a firm as referred to in point (l) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2004/39/EC, which is a member of a trading venue or of a market in a third country, the legal and supervisory framework of which has been declared equivalent by the Commission pursuant to Article 17(2) where it deals as principal in a financial instrument, whether traded on or outside a trading venue, in any of the following capacities:

This means that a law enforcement officer in one Member State of the Union who needs information in order to carry out his duties can obtain it from another Member State and that the law enforcement authorities in the Member State that holds this information will make it available for the declared purpose, taking account of the needs of investigations pending in that Member State.

6. The Authorising Officer shall be informed in writing by any member of staff involved in the financial management and control of transactions who considers that a decision he or she is required by his or her superior to apply or to agree to is irregular or contrary to the principles of sound financial management or the professional rules he or she is required to observe. If he or she fails to take action, the member of staff shal ...[+++]l inform in writing the panel referred to in Article 22(3).