Translation of "autorisation d'opérer " (French → English) :

22a'. operator' means the entity appointed by the licensee or by the licensing authority to conduct offshore oil and gas operations, including planning and executing a well operation or managing and controlling the functions of a production operation;

3a. The licensing procedures for offshore oil and gas operations relating to the same licensed area shall be organised in such a way that information collected pursuant to exploration can be considered by the Member State prior to production operations being commenced.

1. Member States shall ensure that decisions on granting or transferring of licences for offshore oil and gas operations shall take into account the capability of applicant to meet the requirements for operations within the framework of the licence as required by the relevant provisions of Union law, in particular this Directive.

2. If, on production of the evidence required under paragraph 1, the payment service user continues to deny having authorised the payment transaction, he shall provide factual information or elements to allow the presumption that he could not have authorised the payment transaction and that he did not act fraudulently or with gross negligence with regard to the obligations incumbent upon him under Article 46(b).

12. Notes that for years the Chinese banking system has been growing rapidly; that this has been accompanied by a gradual opening of the banking and financial sector to foreign interests; that this is taking place in accordance with the basic principles of the WTO Agreement and the transitional periods granted to China when it joined the WTO; that many Chinese commercial banks have already been authorised to work with foreign lenders; that, finally, more than 400 international banks and financial institutions have opened branches or representations in China; calls on China to continue this process, further to relax the remaining restrictions on foreign banks as regards customer transactions, areas of business and regional activities an ...[+++]d ultimately to dismantle them altogether in order to create greater scope for development for foreign banks or banks with foreign capital participation; calls on China, furthermore, to allow all foreign or mixed banks to conduct customer transactions in the Renminbi, and, in the near future to lift all restrictions on Renminbi transactions by foreign banks throughout China; calls on China, furthermore, in addition to relaxing market access rules for foreign or mixed banks implemented introduced so far, also to relax controls on external financial institutions and, in this connection, to reduce the capital requirements for the establishment of foreign financial institutions from the present excessively high level so as to allow these undertakings effective market access;

3. However, a Member State may determine the minimum categories of transactions and the organ which shall give the authorisation which must feature in the statutes of SCEs registered in its territory and/or provide that, under the two-tier system, the supervisory organ may itself determine which categories of transactions are to be subject to authorisation.