alternative risk transfer

Other Risk Transfer Mechanisms | ORTM [Abbr.]

That authorisation shall be granted for the activity concerned only if adequate restrictions are imposed to ensure that the presence of the plants, plant products or other objects concerned does not cause an unacceptable risk of the spread of a Union quarantine pest or pest subject to the measures adopted pursuant to Article 30(1), taking into account the identity, biology and means of dispersal of the pests concerned, the activity envisaged, the interaction with the environment and other relevant factors relating ...[+++] to the pest risk posed by those plants, plant products or other objects.

69. Stresses that these investigations shed light on only a very limited sample of some typical practices which affect the taxable profit allocated to some MNCs’ subsidiaries through transfer pricing; is concerned that the current resources of the Commission’s competent services may limit its ability to handle a significantly larger number of cases and to carry out systematic checks in order to ascertain whether further practices, other than those based on transfer pricing, in the area ...[+++] of corporate taxation might be in conflict with state aid law;

In order not to impair the efficiency of payment systems, and in order to balance the risk of driving transactions underground as a result of overly strict identification requirements against the potential terrorist threat posed by small transfers of funds, the obligation to check whether information on the payer or the payee is accurate should, in the case of transfers of funds where verification has not yet taken place, be imposed only in respect of individual transfers of funds that exceed EUR 1 000, unless the transfer appears to be linked to other transfers of funds which together would exceed EUR 1 000, the funds have been received ...[+++] or paid out in cash or in anonymous electronic money, or where there are reasonable grounds for suspecting money laundering or terrorist financing.

A facility for debt ('Debt facility') and a facility for equity ('Equity facility') will help overcome such problems by improving the financing and risk profiles of the RI activities concerned. This, in turn, will ease access by firms and other beneficiaries to loans, guarantees and other forms of risk finance; promote early-stage investment and the development of existing and new venture capital funds; improve knowledge transfer and the market in intellectual property; attract funds to the venture capital market; and, overall, he ...[+++]lp catalyse the passage from the conception, development and demonstration of new products and services to their commercialisation.