Antoine Toussaint, Chief Executive Officer of Société Générale Expressbank, added: “We are glad to be working together with the EIB on this project tailored to the vast and important SME sector.

Ian Pearce, the Chief Executive Officer of Xstrata Nickel, one of those great Canadian companies the NDP does not want to support and does not think Canadians should be employed by, said that as a Canadian-based company with operations and projects around the world, it applauds the government’s efforts to combat corruption and bribery. It said that as part of the Xstrata Group, it is committed to the highest standards of personal and professional ethical behaviour and has a policy of zero tolerance towards any form of bribery or fraud.

Points out that only 3 % of major companies are chaired by a woman; stresses, therefore, the example of Norway, which since 2003 has successfully applied a quota policy to ensure parity on the management boards of companies, with this example now being followed by Spain and France; calls on the Member States to take effective measures, such as quotas, to ensure greater representation for women in major listed companies and on the management boards of companies in general, especially those with public participation;

Therefore, SGA costs and profit were established on the basis of the weighted average of SGA costs and profit from three North American producers, which were found to be amongst the largest companies in the fertilisers sector, with regard to their North American sales of the same general category of products (nitrogen fertilisers).

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