Senator Bellemare: So, in the case of parliamentarians, it is a pay-as-you-go system, if you will, since current contributions are used to pay the current service under the plan, which includes commitments made prior to 2013.

The easiest explanation for the current diversity of systems is the relatively swift failure of the new two-year term system of chief and council elections established in 1951.

A study on the feasibility of setting up resettlement schemes in EU Member States or at EU Level, against the background of the Common European Asylum system and the goal of a Common Asylum Procedure, has been commissioned and will be released later this year.

In turn, this reduces their ability to purchase goods and services. Moreover, forgone returns caused by the FPR drive up the costs of pension benefits for Canadian employers who offer the most common type of pension plans called " defined benefit plans" .

(5) Since the quantities covered by the specific supply arrangements are limited to the supply requirements of the FOD, those arrangements do not impair the proper functioning of the internal market. In addition, the economic advantages of the specific supply arrangements should not provoke deflections of trade in the products concerned. Re-dispatching or re-exportation of those products from the FOD should therefore be prohibited. However, trade flows between the FOD are not covered by this prohibition. Nor does it apply, where processing is concerned, subject to certain conditions, to exports to third countries to promote regional trad ...[+++]e or to traditional consignments to the rest of the Community.

If you have had a period of adverse experience but your ongoing normal costs for the pension plan have not changed, you can only set the employees' contribution rates by reference to the ongoing normal costs of your pension plan.