Translation of "chaîne de franchise " (French → English) :

3. Recalls that Bangladesh benefits from duty-free and quota-free access to the EU market under the ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) scheme of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), in the framework of the incentivisation of responsible management of supply chains involving developing countries; emphasises, therefore, that Bangladesh is bound to ensure the effective implementation of a number of core UN/ILO conventions relating to human rights and labour rights under the EBA scheme;

10. Asks the Commission to monitor the implementation of the accord and related initiatives; takes the view that if unsatisfactory progress is made, the European Union should consider what further measures could be taken to help facilitate action, including the possibility of specific trade restrictions, for example through the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) – through which Bangladesh currently receives duty-free and quota-free access to the EU market under the ‘Everything But Arms’ scheme – in order to create incentives for the responsible management of supply chains involving developing countries;

This exemption shall apply to micro-enterprises which sell foodstuffs and not to supermarkets or franchised supermarket chains.

These regulations can restrict the ownership structure of professional services companies, the scope for collaboration with other professions and, in some cases, the opening of branches, franchises or chains.

(10) Whereas the powers conferred on the Commission by Regulation No 19/65/EEC do not allow it to conduct a reform of the rules currently in force which would cover all types of vertical agreements; whereas the scope of Article 1(1)(a) and (2)(b) thereof should consequently be broadened to cover all agreements caught by Article 81(1) of the Treaty which are entered into by two or more undertakings, each operating, for the purposes of the agreement, at a different level of the production or distribution chain and which relate to the conditions under which the parties may purchase, sell or resell certain goods or services (vertical agreem ...[+++]ents), including exclusive distribution agreements, exclusive purchasing agreements, franchising agreements and selective distribution agreements, or any combination of these, and certain non-reciprocal vertical agreements entered into between competing undertakings, as well as vertical agreements between an association of small and medium-sized retailers and its members or between such an association and its suppliers;

Despite the closure of over 1,000 rural area post offices Canada Post is the largest franchise chain in Canada.