(a) any municipality, province, municipal or provincial board, commission, corporation or other authority that levies and collects a real property tax or a frontage or area tax pursuant to an Act of the legislature of a province, (b) any council of a band within the meaning of the Indian Act that levies and collects a real property tax or a frontage or area tax pursuant to an Act of Parliament, (c) any band within the meaning of the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act, chapter 18 of the Statutes of Canada, 1984, that levies and collects a tax on interests in Category IA land or Category IA-N land as defined in that Act, (d) the Council within t ...[+++]he meaning of the Sechelt Indian Band Self-Government Act, chapter 27 of the Statutes of Canada, 1986, if it levies and collects a real property tax or a frontage or area tax in respect of Sechelt lands, as defined in that Act, (e) a first nation named in Schedule II to the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act, if it levies and collects a real property tax or a frontage or area tax in respect of settlement land, as defined in that Act, or in respect of lands in which an interest is transferred or recognized under section 21 of that Act, or (f) the Nisga'a Nation or a Nisga'a Village, as defined in the Nisga'a Final Agreement given effect by the Nisga'a Final Agreement Act, if it levies and collects a real property tax or a frontage or area tax in respect of Nisga'a Lands, as defined in that Agreement.

(19g) In order to avoid social dumping, a railway undertaking should only be able to provide rail transport services if it complies with collective agreements or national laws laying down standards within the Member State in which it intends to act.

(19g) In order to avoid social dumping, a railway undertaking should only be able to provide rail transport services if it complies with representative collective agreements or national laws laying down standards within the Member State in which it intends to act.

European transnational company agreements are generally not national collective agreements in the traditional sense, concluded at national level between trade unions and employers or the latter’s federations, acting within a national legal framework which also incorporates collective measures.

2. Any Union act should cover companies or group of companies, both privately and publicly owned, in accordance with Union and national law and/or collective agreements.

3. Emphasises that, on the other hand, following a complaint from users, the Commission's Directorate-General for Competition intervened by instituting a procedure against CISAC (International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers), which includes 24 European collecting societies amongst its members; points out that the effect of the decision taken in this regard will be to preclude all attempts by the parties concerned to act together in order to find appropriate solutions – such as, for instance, a system for the clearing of rights at the European level – and to leave the way open to an oligopoly of a number of large col ...[+++]lecting societies linked by exclusive agreements to publishers belonging to the worldwide repertoire; believes that the result will be a restriction of choice and the extinction of small collecting societies to the detriment of minority cultures;