Translation of "empêchement d'agir " (French → English) :

The sponsor’s obligation to act in the best interest of all investors does not prevent the sponsor from being a principal.

This could, for example, include preventing unauthorised access to electronic communications networks and malicious code distribution and stopping ‘denial of service’ attacks and damage to computer and electronic communication systems.

We all know that NAFTA leaves the government with its hands tied, because it prevents the government from acting in the interest of the public and allows private businesses to act.

3. Where the Community institution or body is unable, despite exercising due diligence, to act in accordance with paragraph 2, it shall inform the non-governmental organisation which made the request as soon as possible and at the latest within the period mentioned in that paragraph, of the reasons for its failure to act and when it intends to do so.

(40) Both existing and emerging disparities in Member States' legislation and case-law concerning liability of service providers acting as intermediaries prevent the smooth functioning of the internal market, in particular by impairing the development of cross-border services and producing distortions of competition; service providers have a duty to act, under certain circumstances, with a view to preventing or stopping illegal activities; this Directive should constitute the appropriate basis for the development of rapid and reliable procedures for removing and disabling access to illegal information; such mechanisms could be developed on the basis of voluntary agreements between all parties concerned and should be encouraged by Member ...[+++]States; it is in the interest of all parties involved in the provision of information society services to adopt and implement such procedures; the provisions of this Directive relating to liability should not preclude the development and effective operation, by the different interested parties, of technical systems of protection and identification and of technical surveillance instruments made possible by digital technology within the limits laid down by Directives 95/46/EC and 97/66/EC.

Whereas the structure of regulated markets must continue to be governed by national law, without thereby forming an obstacle to the liberalization of access to the regulated markets of host Member States for investment firms authorized to provide the services concerned in their home Member States; whereas, pursuant to that principle, the law of the Federal Republic of Germany and the law of the Netherlands govern the activities Kursmakler and hoekmannen respectively so as to ensure that they do not exercise their functions in parallel with other functions; whereas it should be noted that Kursmakler and hoekmannen may not provide servic ...[+++]es in other Member States; whereas no one, whatever his home Member State, may claim to act as a Kursmakler or a hoekman without being subject to the same rules on incompatibility as result from the status of Kursmakler or hoekman;