1. By way of derogation from point (b) of Article 35(1) and without prejudice to any international agreement referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, Union or Member State law may provide for the competent authorities referred to in point (7)(a) of Article 3, in individual and specific cases, to transfer personal data directly to recipients established in third countries only if the other provisions of this Directive are complied with and all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

In particular, unique identifiers which allow for the indirect identification of a person should be treated as personal data within the meaning of that Directive.

The guidance provided by the Handbook is focused on marriages of convenience within the meaning of Directive 2004/38/EC[4] (“the Directive”) as marriages contracted for the sole purpose of enjoying the right of free movement and residence under the Directive that someone would not have otherwise.

Every department has an obligation to implement the Official Languages Act.

Because we so profoundly understand this country's unique vocation as a land of protection for victims of persecution, of ethnic cleansing, of violence, because we understand that from the united empire loyalists to the black slaves who came north through the underground railroad to the victims who fled communist totalitarian states throughout the 20th century, because it was a Conservative government that opened the doors to the Vietnamese-Indochinese refugees in 1979, because we understand that this is in our DNA as a country, this government is increasing the number of convention ...[+++] refugees we accept from around the world by 20%, and we are increasing at a time of fiscal restraint.

Mr. Alex Shepherd: As legislators, it would be nice if we had some more empirical information, because we're led to believe that this flow is all one way and it's becoming very significant such that we have to change our tax laws and so forth to try to compensate for it.