The Corte di Cassazione (Court of Cassation, Italy), hearing the case on appeal, has asked the Court of Justice whether the Framework Agreement applies to maritime labour and whether it permits national legislation which (i) provides that fixed-term employment contracts have to specify the duration of the contract (but not its termination date), (ii) considers that the mere indication of the voyage(s) to be made constitutes objective justification and (iii) provides for the conversion of successive fixed-term contracts into an employment relationship of indefinite duration where a worker has been employed continuously for a period exceed ...[+++]ing one year (the employment relationship being deemed continuous when the time elapsing between contracts is less than or equal to 60 days).

respecting contractual freedom with regard to interruptible supply contracts and with regard to long-term contracts provided that they are compatible with Community law and consistent with Community policies;

Member States or, where a Member State has so provided, the regulatory authority, should encourage the development of interruptible supply contracts.

29". energy efficiency/demand-side management" means a global or integrated approach aimed at influencing the amount and timing of electricity consumption in order to reduce primary energy consumption and peak loads by giving precedence to investments in energy efficiency measures, or other measures, such as interruptible supply contracts, over investments to increase generation capacity, if the former are the most effective and economical option, taking into account the positive environmental impact of reduced energy consumption and the security of supply and distribution cost aspects related to it;

This code contains a body of rules and solutions based on the laws of members of the European Union and Switzerland and covers the areas of contractual formation, content and form, contractual interpretation and effect, execution and non-execution of a contract, cessation and extinction, other contractual anomalies and remedies.

A treaty is basically a contract, an agreement between sovereign powers. And the sovereign power in Canada is Her Majesty in right of Canada, which is the federal government.