35. Welcomes the expansion of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information (GFTEI) and sees it as a promising step that all 87 countries in the GFTEI have agreed to adopt the OECD standard on tax information sharing; urges the TEC to ensure that the EU and the US show their common global leadership by ensuring that the necessary incentives, including sanctions, are in place in March 2010, and to quickly implement, with all parties, a programme of peer review to assess progress, but deems that this framework must be reinforced to co ...[+++]mbat tax evasion and avoidance; stresses that automatic information should be the standard in all transnational tax matters;

The government, for a time, also considered taking this step, and it appeared as a regulation in the Canada Gazette, but then, at the urging of manufacturers, it was put in abeyance.

The assistance is to: (a) encourage and develop economic and social cross-border relations: - accompanying measures to support partnerships between companies, - measures by public authorities to promote and provide structures for the exchange of technological know-how; (b) consolidate and diversify training and research potential: - training linked to industry and traditional trades (metalworking/construction, carpentry, slating and tiling), - joint training in environmental skills required for the management and maintenance of the natural heritage and the preservation of the environment; (c) improve the attractiveness of and living conditions within the area: - laying out walks, - cooperati ...[+++]on on measures to provide tourist information, develop tourist activities and promote tourism, - joint measures to preserve the environment; (d) set up an international technical team to assist the launching and implementation of the measures adopted.

Thus it is expected that an important impetus will be provided to private sector led initiatives for the creation of European information infrastructures; INVITES the Member States to supply the necessary impulse to launch general interest applications in cooperation with the private sector and with regional and local authorities; NOTES the initiatives the Commission intends to take in order - to give the necessary impetus to contribute in the context of existing activities to specific projects such as those mentioned in the report ...[+++]of the BANGEMANN group; - to encourage the implementation of an environment stimulating new forms of private sector led partnerships, involving where appropriate Member States, regions and towns, for general interest applications; - to present to the Parliament and the Council a Communication further to the Green Paper on media pluralism; NOTES that the Commission is taking account of social and cultural aspects of the information society and welcomes its intention to give priority, in parallel with and complementary to the process of liberalization, to initiatives in the following areas: employment and work environment as well as social, cultural and language aspects; INVITES the Commission and the Member States to stimulate public debate on the ways to maximize the benefits of the information society; VI CALLS UPON all competent Council compositions to pursue where necessary the areas of applications agreed to in general by the European Council and to adopt as soon as possible the necessary regulatory and legal measures; WELCOMES the holding of the forthcoming G7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society and INVITES the Commission to do the necessary preparatory work in cooperation with the Member States; INVITES THE COMMISSION to submit a report in time to enable the European Council in Essen (9 and 10 December 1994) to assess the progress made".