estate owner | land-holder | landlord | land-owner

estate owner | ground landlord | land holder | landed proprietor | landowner

estate owner | landed proprietor | landowner

landowner | land owner | property owner

gentleman farmer

advising land owners of bridge inspection | tell land owners about bridge inspection | advise land owners of bridge inspection | tell land owners about bridge repair

owner-manager | owner manager | owner/manager | business owner-manager | business owner/manager | business entrepreneur/owner/manager | entrepreneur/owner-manager | business entrepreneur | entrepreneur

satellite ground terminal [ SGT | satellite Earth terminal | Earth terminal ]

Tavern and Pub Owners' Association of Quebec Inc. [ Tavern and Pub Owner's Association of Quebec Incorporated | Tavern and Pub Owners' Association of Quebec (West Division) Inc. | Tavern and Pub Owners' Association of Quebec (West Division) Incorporated ]

The eight stakeholder associations signing the platform agreement are: CIC – The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation; COPA-COGECA – European Farmers and European Agri-cooperatives; ELO - European Landowners’ Organization; EUROPARC Federation; FACE – The European Federation of Associations for Hunting Conservation; Joint representative of Finnish and Swedish reindeer herders; IUCN – The International Union for Conservation of Nature, European Union Representative Office; and WWF – World Wide Fund for Nature, European Policy Office.

6. Takes the view that the Commission should impose the highest levels of integrity in the procurement processes for implementation of EU-funded projects, in particular by promoting greater accessibility to calls for tender for local organisations; stresses that a human rights-based approach to procurement benefits from the participation of a broader range of actors, namely those affected by the bidding process (such as associations of land-owners as well as disadvantaged groups); considers that a human rights-based approach to procurement also encourages authorities to empower disadvantaged groups to compete in procurement processes t ...[+++]hemselves and broaden the criteria against which companies are assessed in procurement processes; recalls that monitoring results of projects in cooperation with civil society and holding local authorities accountable is essential to determine whether EU funds are used appropriately; urges the Commission not to grant projects to contractors whose beneficial owners are not known, or who have a corporate structure that enables them to easily engage in transfer-pricing;

35. Notes that it is particularly important for EU shale gas operators to engage with and build strong relationships with local communities at every stage of their operations, given that the EU has a higher population density than the US and landowners in Europe do not own underground resources and so do not benefit directly from extraction as in the US; calls, in this regard, for the establishment of frameworks which are competitive for industry but at the same time allow national and local communities to benefit from shale gas resources; also calls on shale gas companies to establish responsible community practices, ensure that local ...[+++] communities benefit from shale gas development, ensure application of the ‘polluter pays’ principle, and cover the costs of any direct or indirect damage they might cause;

38. Notes that it is particularly important for EU shale gas operators to engage with and build strong relationships with local communities at every stage of their operations, given that the EU has a higher population density than the US and landowners in Europe do not own underground resources and so do not benefit directly from extraction as in the US; calls, in this regard, for the establishment of frameworks which are competitive for industry but at the same time allow national and local communities to benefit from shale gas resources; also calls on shale gas companies to establish responsible community practices, ensure that local ...[+++] communities benefit from shale gas development, ensure application of the ‘polluter pays’ principle, and cover the costs of any direct or indirect damage they might cause;