Translation of "conclusion d'une convention " (French → English) :

17. Emphasises that Community law has to respect the principle of non discrimination; emphasises further that the Community legislator has to ensure that no obstacles are created either to collective agreements, for example, those implementing the principle of equal pay for equal work for all workers in the workplace, regardless of their nationality or that of their employer, in the place where the service is provided, or to industrial action in support of such an agreement which is in accordance with national laws or practice;

To date, six years after its establishment, the Naples II Convention has been ratified by only 10 Member States (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom).

Member States in which there is no statutory system ensuring the conclusion of collective agreements or agreements concluded between the two sides of industry at national or regional level, on the matters covered by this Directive, or those Member States in which there is a specific legislative framework for this purpose and within the limits thereof, may, in accordance with national legislation and/or practice, allow derogations from Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 16 by way of collective agreements or agreements concluded between the two sides of industry at the appropriate collective level.

The social partners ensure the promotion of equal treatment, specifically by monitoring practices in the workplace, producing codes of conducts and concluding collective agreements.

14. Advocates the conclusion of regional conventions (including in connection with cross-border cooperation), along the lines of the Alpine Convention, so as to establish and speed up the cooperation in solving specific regional and cross-border problems and thus to give a practical example for realisation of the idea of a Europe of the regions;

Twenty-nine months after signature and ratification by the Greek Parliament of the transfer document for the Thessaloniki underground, negotiations are continuing for the conclusion of loan agreements; moreover the Commission representative told the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions on 9 July that in view of the risk that the transfer agreement would be declared void, written authorisation for extending the negotiations had been given twice and that the matter remained in suspension as the financial agreements between the contractor and the lenders had not been finalised and the works themselves therefore ...[+++] could not begin.