Agreement among the Government of Canada, Governments of Member States of the European Space Agency, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the United States of America concerning cooperation on the Civil International Space Station

Agreement among the Government of the United States of America, Governments of Member States of the European Space Agency, the Government of Japan, and the Government of Canada on Cooperation in the Detailed Design, Development, Operation, and Utilisation of the Permanently Manned Civil Space Station

Agreement Relating to the Exchange of Information on Weather Modifications Activities [ Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America Relating to the Exchange of Information on Weather Modifications Activities ]

Agreement relating to the Exchange of Information on Weather Modification Activities [ Agreement between Canada and the United States of America relating to the exchange of information on weather modification activities ]

Americas Section - United States, Caribbean, Central and South America

The EU Party, having examined the relevant legislation of each of the Republics of CA Party considers that this legislation, by providing protection periods of at least five years for pharmaceutical products and ten years for agricultural chemical products, affords a satisfactory level of protection that corresponds to the relevant international obligations entered to by the Republics of the CA Party including Article 39 of the WTO TRIPS Agreement, Article 15.10 of The Dominican Republic - Central America - United States Free Trade Agreement and for Panama Article 15.10 of the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement.

On 15 November 1995 the United States was granted a renewal of that waiver to 30 September 2005, and again on 29 May 2009 to 31 December 2014, to the extent necessary to permit the United States to provide duty-free treatment for imports of eligible products originating in beneficiary Central American and Caribbean countries and territories (‘beneficiary countries’) designated pursuant to the provisions of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 as amended by the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Expansion Act of 1990 and by ...[+++] the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act, the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006, the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2008 (‘existing waiver’).

Following the negotiations between the United States of America and several other countries, including all Member States, on bilateral automatic exchange agreements to implement the United States' Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (commonly known as ‘FATCA’), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was mandated by the G20 to build on these agreements to develop a single global standard for automatic exchange of tax information.

30. Strongly urges the EU institutions and the Member States to implement the recommendations contained in its resolution of 14 February 2007 on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners ; welcomes in this context the statement by the US President-Elect on closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and bringing the inmates to trial; calls on Member States to declare their readiness to jointly find solutions for remaining inmates;