2. Underlines that collective management has been recognised and sanctioned as a valid form of rights management by the EC legislator since 1992; notes that Directive 92/100/EEC expressly gives authors and performers the possibility to entrust the administration of their unwaivable right to receive equitable remuneration for rental to collecting societies representing them; points out that Directive 93/83/EEC provides for mandatory collective management for cable retransmission rights and that Directive 2001/84/EC expressly refers t ...[+++]o the possibility for Member States to provide for compulsory or optional collective management of the right for authors of an original work of art to receive royalties; considers that these directives constitute part of the acquis communautaire;

2. Underlines that collective management has been recognised and sanctioned as a valid form of rights management by the EC legislator since 1992; notes that Directive 92/100/EEC expressly gives authors and performers the possibility to entrust the administration of their unwaivable right to receive equitable remuneration for rental to collecting societies representing them; points out that Directive 93/83/EEC provides for mandatory collective management for cable retransmission rights and that Directive 2001/84/EC expressly refers t ...[+++]o the possibility for Member States to provide for compulsory or optional collective management of the right for authors of an original work of art to receive royalties; considers that these directives constitute part of the acquis communautaire;

Discussions included the procedures to be followed during the interim period when not all Member States have ratified the 1999 Protocol extending the Convention (of which the application ended on 31 December 1999), the starting point of the three-year period, which is the deadline to present a case to a competent authority (Art. 6.1), the starting point of the two-year period foreseen for the mutual agreement procedure, i.e. the first phase provided for in the Arbitration Convention, (Art. 7.1), proceedings during this mutual agreement procedure (expediting the procedure, suspension of tax collection ...[+++], interest charges and refunds, transparency and taxpayer participation), proceedings of the arbitration i.e. after the MAP the second phase of the Arbitration Convention (Art. 7 to 11) and the interaction of the mutual agreement procedure and arbitration with administrative and judicial appeals (Art. 7.3)

2. Underlines that collective management has been recognised and sanctioned as a valid form of rights management by the EC legislator since 1992; notes that Directive 92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992 on rental and lending rights and certain neighbouring rights expressly gives authors and performers the possibility to entrust the administration of their unwaivable right to receive equitable remuneration for rental to collecting societies representing them; points out that Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on satellite broadcasti ...[+++]ng and cable retransmission provides for mandatory collective management for cable retransmission rights and that Directive 2001/84/EC on resale right expressly refers to the possibility for Member States to provide for compulsory or optional collective management of the right for authors of an original work of art to receive royalties; whereas these directives constitute the acquis communautaire;

Whereas administrative cooperation should be established between Member States as regards their national treasures, in close liaison with their cooperation in the field of stolen works of art and involving in particular the recording, with Interpol and other qualified bodies issuing similar lists, of lost, stolen or illegally removed cultural objects forming part of their national treasures and their public collections;

(b) Seven hundred and twelve works were purchased to be displayed in the headquarters and regional offices throughout the department of Indians Affairs and Northern Development, as well as in travelling exhibitions and two native art collections, the Alberta collection and the Indian Art Collection Vault.