Translation of "double opinion " (French → English) :

137. Recognises that new technologies provide unprecedented opportunities to participate in public life, express opinions, gain access to information about human rights and make violations of human rights known to the rest of the world; is concerned that states are using increasingly sophisticated techniques, such as dual-use technologies, to censor information and monitor activities on the internet, and that harassment, persecution and even detention and imprisonment of people using the internet to exercise the right to freedom of opinion and expression have occurred in a number of countries;

142. Recognises that new technologies provide unprecedented opportunities to participate in public life, express opinions, gain access to information about human rights and make violations of human rights known to the rest of the world; is concerned that states are using increasingly sophisticated techniques, such as dual-use technologies, to censor information and monitor activities on the internet, and that harassment, persecution and even detention and imprisonment of people using the internet to exercise the right to freedom of opinion and expression have occurred in a number of countries;

1. Recalls that the Internet has become an indispensable tool for promoting democratic initiatives, political debate, digital literacy and the dissemination of knowledge; reiterates that access to the Internet both guarantees and depends upon the exercise of a number of key fundamental rights including, but not limited to, respect for private life, data protection, freedom of expression, speech and association, freedom of the press, political expression and participation, non-discrimination, education and cultural and linguistic diversity; underlines that institutions and stakeholders at all levels therefore have a general responsibility to assist in ensuring that everyone can exercise their right to participate in the information society ...[+++], including an emphasis on the elderly, who face more problems in familiarising themselves with the new technologies, simultaneously attacking the twin challenges of e-illiteracy and democratic exclusion in the electronic age;

Unlike the example of incorporated companies, the inclusion of internationally active partnerships and other tax-transparent or hybrid entities within the scope of the scheme could, for instance, lead to diverging opinions on the correct application of existing double-taxation treaties, especially when the partners are residents of other Member States other than that in which the partnership is located.

Appended to this report is the official opposition's dissenting opinion on the policy of double bunking.

She saw the Committee as fulfilling a two-fold role: expressing the views of those in daily contact with events at local and regional level so that the work of the Community could take these events more fully into account and ensuring that such people were made more aware and kept better informed about what the Community was doing and the implications of its work for them.