(i) an entity that is licensed or otherwise authorized under the laws of Canada or of a province to carry on the fidelity or surety class of insurance business in Canada and that is recommended to the Treasury Board by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions as an entity whose bonds may be accepted by the Government of Canada,

2. Endorses the Council's decision to develop a temporary international mechanism for direct aid to the Palestinian people, on behalf of the Quartet and so as to avoid a major humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories; however, asks the Commission to ensure, in the negotiations it is leading, the transparency of the mechanism, in order to prevent any fraud or deviation of the funds, as well as ensuring the visibility of the aid, the needs it will cover and the way it will be deployed, as elements to which the European Parliament will pay special attention before giving, as one of the two arms of the budgetary authority, its approval to any unblocking of financial assistance ...[+++];

Whereas, however, Article 7 (2) (c) of Directive 73/239/EEC provides that 'pending further coordination, which must be implemented within four years of notification of this Directive, the Federal Republic of Germany may maintain the provision prohibiting the simultaneous undertaking in its territory of health insurance, credit and suretyship insurance or insurance in respect of recourse against third parties and legal defence, either with one another or with other classes';

Whereas the various laws contain different rules as to the simultaneous undertaking of health insurance, credit and suretyship insurance and insurance in respect of recourse against third parties and legal defence, whether with one another or with other classes of insurance ; whereas continuance of this divergence after the abolition of restrictions on the right of establishment in classes other than life assurance would mean that obstacles to establishment would continue to exist ; whereas a solution to this problem must be provide ...[+++]d in subsequent coordination to be effected within a relatively short period of time;

(c) Pending further coordination, which must be implemented within four years of notification of this Directive, the Federal Republic of Germany may maintain the provision prohibiting the simultaneous undertaking in its territory of health insurance, credit and suretyship insurance or insurance in respect of recourse against third parties and legal defence, either with one another or with other classes.