5. Insists that an amended text, as an absolute minimum, and in accordance with the Treaty requirements, should: explicitly extend its scope to all EU institutions, offices and agencies; enhance legislative transparency, whereby any use of exceptions in the legislative procedure should be a specifically reasoned exemption from the general rule of legislative transparency, and any refusal of access to documents should not go beyond the specific words that can legitimately be withheld from the public on the basis of a legal exception; delete exceptions for legal service opinions provided in the decision-making proces ...[+++]s; ensure access to documents in relation to international negotiations and agreements; clarify the relationship between transparency and data protection; include the Aarhus Convention; on the basis of the current definition, further develop and enlarge the definition of ‘document’, and not introduce any block exemptions; publish the identity of delegations in Council working documents to ensure democratic accountability; and ensure financial transparency in relation to EU funds;

2. Is concerned that even though the Court of Auditors considered the transactions underlying the College's annual accounts to be legal and regular, it also highlighted the following exceptions which should be duly noted: an irregular procurement procedure (the College directly contracted consulting services with a provider on the basis of a Commission framework contract exclusively intended for training services, the value of the contract being of EUR 96 000); a high number of breaches of the applicable administrative and financial rules as regards the expenditure for the organisation of courses and seminars and a series of commitments ...[+++] for which the legal commitments were lacking or the absence of budgetary commitments before the legal commitments; takes due account of the College's replies concerning these issues but deplores the fact that its replies do not adequately identify the specific measures taken and applied for the speedy resolution of the problems;

(17a) A uniform common set of procedural guarantees is a necessary prerequisite to ensuring a fair and effective application of measures concerning judicial cooperation in criminal matters; taking into due consideration the opinion of the European Parliament, the Council should without delay adopt a legal instrument on procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings, based upon the principle of presumption of innocence, which should include at least the authorization by the judicial authority for any restriction or deprivation of freedom, the right to a "Letter of Rights", to legal advice, to evidence, to be informed on the nature and reasons of the charges and of the grounds for suspicion, the right to access to all relevant ...[+++]documents in a language the suspect/defendant understands and to an interpreter;

(17a) A uniform common set of procedural safeguards is a necessary prerequisite to ensuring a fair and effective application of measures concerning judicial cooperation in criminal matters; taking into due consideration the opinion of the European Parliament, the Council should without delay adopt a legal instrument on procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings, based on the principle of the presumption of innocence, which should include at least the authorisation issued by the judicial authority for any restriction or deprivation of liberty, the right to a "Letter of Rights", to legal advice, to evidence, to be informed of the nature and reasons of the charges and of the grounds for suspicion, the right to access to all ...[+++] relevant documents in a language which the person concerned understands and to an interpreter;

If I can paraphrase — and Senator Joyal will forgive me if I do not do it in legal terms — this is really the updating of the legal documents that govern the corporations from the Canada Corporations Act to the Canada Business Corporations Act.

(b) identifying, where practicable, on the basis of independent, reliable and publicly accessible sources of information, data and documents, the beneficial owner and taking reasonable measures, based on differing risk situations, to verify the identity of the beneficial owner such that the institution or person is satisfied that it knows who the beneficial owner is, including, as regards legal persons, trusts and similar legal arrangements, taking risk-based reasonable measures to understand the ownership and control structure of the customer; the due diligence procedure shall be deemed to have been carried out whe ...[+++]n the power to represent the client has been ascertained, this taking the form of formal representation, duly conferred, or of legal representation of natural persons, companies, institutions and organisations of all kinds;