Translation of "convention de syndicalisation des entreprises " (French → English) :

4. Provided that an adequate level of protection is provided for temporary agency workers, Member States in which there is either no system in law for declaring collective agreements universally applicable or no such system in law or practice for extending their provisions to all similar undertakings in a certain sector or geographical area, may, after consulting the social partners at national level and on the basis of an agreement concluded by them, establish arrangements concerning the basic working and employment conditions which derogate from the principle established in paragraph 1.

At the same time and at the request of Air Canada, CCRA reviewed the flight attendants' collective agreement with Air Canada and issued a `non-binding' opinion with regard to the number of insurable hours to be considered.

5. Where an undertaking carrying on the activities referred to in the Annex to Directive 73/239/EEC has financial, commercial or administrative links with an assurance undertaking carrying on the activities covered by this Directive, the competent authorities of the Member States within whose territories the head offices of those undertakings are situated shall ensure that the accounts of the undertakings in question are not distorted by agreements between these undertakings or by any arrangement which could affect the apportionment of expenses and income.

Since that time negotiations for the conclusion of new treaties or the revision of existing ones have been entered into with almost 75 countries.

The Commission proposes that a Code of Conduct be adopted to ensure more effective and more uniform implementation of the 1990 Arbitration Convention by Member States to eliminate double taxation of enterprises carrying out intergroup operations.

We are calling upon the government, in light of what is at stake, the billions of dollars involved—big bucks here—and in light of the fact that most often it is companies who make use of tax conventions, and they can afford top notch lawyers and tax experts, to have enough resources, civil servants to do a good job, a very good one, of following up on the application of these international treaties.