The main initial purpose of these guidelines was to facilitate the transition from a specific to a general competition regime for maritime transport after the repeal in 2006 of an exemption of antitrust rules for liner conferences (i.e. agreements between liner shipping companies on prices and other conditions of carriage) (see IP/06/1249 and MEMO/06/344). This objective has now been achieved.

Brussels, 28 March 2012 - The European Commission has fined 14 international groups of companies a total of € 169 million for participating in the period 2002-2007 in four distinct cartels aimed at fixing prices and other trading conditions for international air freight forwarding services, in breach of EU antitrust rules.

5. Is convinced of the need to promote room for dialogue so that, in a peaceful way and in the context of democratic institutions and constitutional order, Bolivia may manage to overcome the crisis, and also calls for moderation, so as to make way for constructive dialogue between all sectors of the population, in order to create a climate of trust and understanding that is sufficient and necessary to lead the country towards peaceful transition;

5. Is convinced of the need to promote room for dialogue so that, in a peaceful way and in the context of democratic institutions and constitutional order, Bolivia may manage to overcome the crisis, and also calls for moderation, so as to make way for constructive dialogue between all sectors of the population, in order to create a climate of trust and understanding that is sufficient and necessary to lead the country towards peaceful transition;

Honourable senators, typically, justification for additional twelfths relates to the season, for example construction season, or legal and quasi-legal obligations as, for example, the governments pays grants in lieu of paying property taxes and interim payments that are typically due in the spring, payment schedules under contract or transfer payment agreements such as the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, where the payments are often made early in the fiscal year under financing agreements with the bands, and for department vote netting their revenues to provide bridge funding as revenues are received after c ...[+++]osts have been incurred.

This would be a better bridge between the WTO and the International Labour Organisation, a better bridge between the WTO and the UN environmental program, in order to do the same kinds of things that were done on the TRIPS agreement, where a bridge was built between the various intellectual property protection agreements that exist, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and the WTO, using the WTO as a vehicle for increasing transparency and increasing the enforceability of those international agreements.