Where appropriate the Commission shall seek all the information it deems necessary and attempt to check this information with the shipowners, agents, shippers, freight forwarders, conferences, associations and other organizations, provided that the undertakings or organizations concerned give their consent.

Whereas certain obligations should also attached to the exemption; whereas in this respect users must at all times be in a position to acquaint themselves with the rates and conditions of carriage applied by members of the conference, since in the case of inland transports organized by shippers, the latter continue to be subject to Regulation (EEC) N° 1017/68; whereas provision should be made that awards given at arbitration and recommendations made by conciliators and accepted by the parties be notified forthwith to the Commission in order to enable it to verify that conferences are not thereby exempted from the conditions provided fo ...[+++]r in the Regulation and thus do not infringe the provisions of Articles 85 and 86;

Senator Bosa: Are any of your members connected with the longshoring and shipper organizations which comprise the British Columbia Maritime Employees Association, or any other employee association in ports other than on the west coast?