Last year, the government of the Madrid Autonomous Community, with the support of all the parliamentary groups represented in the Regional Assembly and MEPs including myself, signed an agreement on employment with the Comisiones Obreras and UGT trade union organisations, with the goal of encouraging the creation of stable jobs and finding employment for particularly disadvantaged groups such as the physically and mentally handicapped, by establishing specific clauses to this effect in contracts between the Autonomous Co ...[+++]mmunity’s administration and companies putting in for public tenders.

The main provisions adapted relate to: - the conditions under which the use of ozone-enriched air may be permitted in order to separate unstable elements from natural mineral waters, - the obligation to include a statement of the analytical composition of natural mineral waters, in order to ensure that consumers are informed, - extension of the period of recognition for natural mineral waters originating in third countries in order to simplify administrative procedures, - extension of the scope of the Directive to include bottled waters labelled "spring water", - introduction of a safeguard clause ...[+++] enabling Member States to take decisions swiftly in cases of contamination of natural mineral waters, - establishment of a procedure to lay down certain detailed provisions concerning natural mineral waters, notably in respect of limits for the levels of certain constituents, labelling, analysis methods, etc.

Specifically, Term 17 guaranteed powers to various religious denominations for the administering of education in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

More specifically, the joint position contains provisions on: the recognition of refugee status; the principle of individual determination of refugee status; establishing the evidence for granting refugee status; the concept of persecution and its origins (persecution by the State: legal, administrative and police measures, prosecution; persecution by third parties); civil war and other internal or generalized armed conflicts; grounds of persecution (race, religion, nationality, political opinions, social group); relocation within the country of origin; refugees "sur place"; conscientious objection, absence without leave and des ...[+++]ertion; the cessation of refugee status and clauses excluding persons from protection under the Geneva Convention.

We find this particular proposed section of the Newfoundland Schools Act—and I know we're dealing with Term 17 here, however it's something we feel we should voice at this level—this section is particularly offensive to us in that as a religious body, now having private schools, we feel our school teachers should be exempt from the NTA.