7. Notes that Finland is planning seven types of measures for redundant workers covered by this application: (i) coaching measures and other preparatory measures, (ii) employment and business services, (iii) training, (iv) pay subsidies, (v) start-up grants, (vi) steering towards entrepreneurship and services for new entrepreneurs, and (vii) allowances for travel, overnight and removal costs;

75. Believes that in times of increasing financial difficulties for numerous Europeans and ongoing austerity policies, Parliament should show an example of restraint by reducing its travel costs; asks the Bureau to create conditions for making savings of 5% in all kind of travel expenditure including delegations of committees and interparliamentary delegations in full respect of the Statute for Members and its implementing measures; believes that a reduction in business flights by Members of Parliament would help to achieve such savings; requests that 15% of the travel appropriations be placed in reserve pending a report by the Secretary General of Parliament to be delivered to the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets by 31 March 2012; c ...[+++]alls for such a report to examine the feasibility of measures to ensure the utmost efficiency of Members' travel with a view to making recommendations for potential budgetary savings by considering all proposals and resolutions which Parliament has already adopted on this question, by presenting proposals to reduce its number of business class flights, encouraging the purchase of economy / flexi-economy class airfares, ensuring a proper treatment of the Frequent Flyer Points and revising the rules of the Members' Registry opening hours, in particular on Fridays; expects that the appropriations for the travels are reduced in 2012 and in the following years till the end of the legislature; suggests that savings in institutional visits have to take into account the primacy of pluralism over proportionality when defining the delegations' composition;

The performance reward schemes used by British Airways to calculate travel agents' commissions constitutes an abuse of the dominant position held by British Airways on the United Kingdom market for air travel agency services.

Recommendation 3, Travel Agent Commissions. The dominant carrier/owner link its travel agent commission system to sales volume alone and not tie it in any way to travel agent loyalty.

Information that he could not or would not provide the committee included: his bonus and the bonus of other executives; their travel policies; the total cost to the taxpayers of CBC's trip to Sochi, Russia, whether or not they flew business class; and finally, with regard to his own expenses, why the CBC failed to report the ineligible expenses when they discovered them, why it was hidden from the taxpayers and why they only started talking about it when Sun Media broke the story.

Recommendation 3, Travel Agent Commissions. The dominant carrier/owner link its travel agent commission system to sales volume alone and not tie it in any way to travel agent loyalty.