153. The registration of monetary value determined by an electronic computing machine shall equal the product of the weight indication multiplied by the unit price. It is to be rounded to the nearest cent as follows:

From a dollar value standpoint, we've seen the market share of beer go from over 50% to now, just last week, being reported at 44%. Wine has basically taken up that delta, from a value standpoint, so they've gone from 25% to now 30% or 31% of the retail value of beverage alcohol sales.

(51) The Commission should adopt the draft regulatory technical standards developed by ESMA regarding the precise characteristics of trade transparency requirements, regarding the monetary, foreign exchange and financial stability policy operations and the types of the certain transactions relevant under this Regulation, regarding the detailed conditions for waivers from pre-trade transparency, regarding deferred post-trade publication arrangements, regarding the obligation to make pre-trade and post-trade data available separately, regarding the criteria for the application of the pre-trade transparency obligations for systematic intern ...[+++]alisers, regarding post-trade disclosure by investment firms, regarding the content and frequency of data requests for the provision of information for the purposes of transparency and other calculations, regarding transactions that do not contribute to the price discovery process, regarding the order data to be retained, regarding the content and specifications of transaction reports, regarding the content and specification of financial instrument reference data, regarding the types of contracts which have a direct, substantial and foreseeable effect within the Union and the cases where the trading obligation for derivatives is necessary, regarding the requirements for systems and procedures to ensure that transactions in cleared derivatives are submitted and accepted for clearing, specifying types of indirect clearing service arrangements, regarding derivatives subject to an obligation to trade on organised trading venues, regarding non-discriminatory access to a CCP and to a trading venue, regarding non-discriminatory access to and obligation to licence benchmarks, and concerning the information that the applicant third-country firm should provide to ESMA in its application for registration.

(Return tabled) Question No. 849 Hon. Stéphane Dion: With regard to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, since the beginning of Canada's participation: (a) what are the criteria (operational requirements, contractual conditions, etc) on which the government is selecting the F-35s as a replacement for the CF-18s; (b) when and by whom were those criteria determined; (c) what are the relevant studies which were conducted prior to determining those criteria, specifying the (i) dates, (ii) names of the studies, (iii) names of individuals requesting the studies, (iv) authors of the studies, (v) names of the individuals presented with the results; (d) before those criteria were determined, on the basis of what information did the government ...[+++]evaluate that the F-35 could satisfy Canada's needs; (e) since the beginning of Canada's participation in the JSF program, what were all the studies conducted that evaluated different fighter planes in relation to Canada's needs, specifying the (i) dates, (ii) names of the studies, (iii) names of individuals requesting the studies, (iv) authors of the studies, (v) studies which were used to evaluate the planes, (vi) names of the individuals who determined those criteria, (vii) planes which were considered in the study, (viii) names of the individuals presented with the results; (f) what is the operational availability of a fleet of 65 fighter jets; (g) what effect will a reduction in Canada's fleet of fighter jets have on operational capability, on Canada's ability to play its role within the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and on the distribution of fighter jets across Canada's military bases; (h) how did the government determine that Canadian Forces needed 65 planes; (i) what is the formula used to determine the number of planes Canada should buy and who is the author of that formula; (j) for each of the variables in that formula, how was the value of that variable determined, specifying by whom, based on ...

They seek to increase the protection offered by the definition of low value shipments, and to protect against the selling price being artificially lowered in order to meet the conditions of the 'low value shipments' export authorisation (AM 17), to introduce an ex-ante notification and registration requirement to the Member States and the Commission, thus raising transparency (AM 24, 34, 42, and 45), to introduce additional safeguards for export authorisation (AM 26 to 33, 41, and 44) in relation to Annexes IId (Temporary Export for Exhibition or Fair), IIf (Telecommunications), and IIg (Chemicals), to prohibit GEAs of items that could b ...[+++]e used for launching of cyber-attacks, or of any other means of politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage or espionage, to deface web pages, or to use denial-of-service attacks to take web pages down (AM 38), and to prohibit GEAs to items that can be used by governments or business to violate fundamental human rights, as defined under the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961 and in the 1989 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union which was proclaimed at Strasbourg on 12 December 2007 by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, to which Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union refers to (AM 39).

With this legislative proposal, we return once more to the experimental reduced rates of VAT for certain labour-intensive services, a scheme that was launched in 1999 with strong support from the European Parliament, and in particular from its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.