Translation of "offre spéciale à prix réduit " (French → English) :

Prohibitions laid down in Annex I target specific promotional practices such as bait advertising (point 5), special offers (point 7), prize promotions (point 19), prize competitions (point 31), and use of the word ‘free’ (point 20).

Sabine from Germany found an advert in a magazine offering a special promotion: "Fly to Barcelona for just €1!" But when she tried to book the flight online the prices were much higher.

The move is intended to enable pharma producers to significantly increase supplies of medicines at lower, so-called 'tiered' prices, to 76 developing countries, while keeping higher prices for the same items in the EU.

1. During the period referred to in Article 38(1), in order to ensure adequate supplies to Community refineries as referred to in Article 7(4), a reduced rate of duty, hereinafter called "special duty", shall be levied on imports of raw cane sugar, hereinafter called "special preferential sugar", originating in the States referred to in Article 35 and other States with whom agreements have been concluded, and subject to the conditions laid down therein, in particular the minimum purchase price to be paid by refiners.

The government is fully justified in taking immediate action on these imports since, first, the history of trade negotiations clearly indicates that such products would be covered by 0404.9; second, the U.S. has already challenged the coverage of these tariff lines and lost at the NAFTA panel; third, government policy is to support supply management and dairy products, which are being undermined by these imports; fourth, imports of these products are strictly designed to circumvent Canada's border measures in an effort to find lower-cost alternatives to domestic supplies of butter fat, even though ice cream products themselves are not ...[+++] competing with imports; fifth, the cost of butter fat in Canada has not increased since prior to the imports of these blends; and last, consumers did not benefit from the imports of lower-cost butter fat as evidenced by the fact that the consumer price index for ice cream has increased by 4.3% since January 1995, even though imports of butter oil/sugar blends have increased by 488% during this period. Domestic butter fat costs did not change.

The government is fully justified in taking immediate action on these imports since, first, the history of trade negotiations clearly indicates that such products would be covered by 0404.9; second, the U.S. has already challenged the coverage of these tariff lines and lost at the NAFTA panel; third, government policy is to support supply management and dairy products, which are being undermined by these imports; fourth, imports of these products are strictly designed to circumvent Canada's border measures in an effort to find lower-cost alternatives to domestic supplies of butter fat, even though ice cream products themselves are not ...[+++] competing with imports; fifth, the cost of butter fat in Canada has not increased since prior to the imports of these blends; and last, consumers did not benefit from the imports of lower-cost butter fat as evidenced by the fact that the consumer price index for ice cream has increased by 4.3% since January 1995, even though imports of butter oil/sugar blends have increased by 488% during this period. Domestic butter fat costs did not change.