1. The ELTIF manager may set up a professional ELTIF with no participation for retail investors or he may decide to set up an ELTIF where retail, professional and semi-professional investors can participate.

(4a) 'professional ELTIF' means an ELTIF eligible to be marketed only to professional and semi-professional investors;

11. Notes that numerous good practices can be found in the various Member States, demonstrating the excellent results achieved by cooperative enterprises in terms of growth, employment, survival rates and business start-ups, such as the single payment system (‘pago único’) in Spain and the Marcora Law in Italy – which help finance the establishment of new cooperatives through unemployment benefits – and the ‘employment and business cooperatives’ created in France, Sweden and Belgium; points, moreover, to groups of individual cooperatives that can voluntarily form large business groups covering sectors such as industry, agriculture, distribution, finance, R & D and high-level education; observes that the cooperative society, modelled, for ...[+++]example, on the British trust company, can also be an efficient model for good governance of professional or semi-professional sports organisations, which at the same time facilitates close involvement of the principal stakeholders – the supporters – in the management of a club (whether professional or not); calls on the Commission to look at these good practices in depth and consider including them in the framing of business-friendly EU policies;

We are, honourable senators, in an era that is not of the classic military time frame where grand armies of professionals or semi-professionals face each other on the battlefield and discerned, through the use of humanitarian law and the law of armed combat, the appropriate procedures and methodologies in conducting that terrible exercise of war and combat.

We're a national organization representing over 100 professional, semi-professional, amateur, and youth orchestras from coast to coast.

At the higher levels—and I'm talking about approximately 40 orchestras all across the country in communities like St. John's, Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston, Thunder Bay, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Kelowna, Vancouver, and Victoria—Canada's semi-professional and professional orchestras perform for over 2.2 million Canadians each year.