For the purposes of transparency and investor protection, Member States should require the following principles to apply to reporting on payments to governments in accordance with Chapter 10 of Directive 2013/34/EU: materiality (any payment, whether made as a single payment or a series of related payments, need not be taken into account in the report if it is below EUR 100 000 within a financial year); government and project-by-project reporting (reporting on payments to governments should be done on a government and project-by-project basis); universality (no exemptions, for instance for issuers active in certain countries, should be ...[+++]made which have a distortive impact and allow issuers to exploit lax transparency requirements); comprehensiveness (all relevant payments to governments should be reported, in line with Chapter 10 of Directive 2013/34/EU and supporting recitals).

Big business does not create jobs; it creates dividends and clips coupons, and takes advantage of their monopoly or oligopoly positions.

Competitive markets render the supply of energy as efficient as possible and eliminate undue monopoly profits.

We are simply running out of time (1715) The Chair: It's somewhat understandable, Mrs. Chamberlain, that Eli Lilly does not want to say that they're going to stop supplying, because if they have tanks and tanks of this or whatever, or the capability of doing it, they are going to want to have the monopoly they enjoy until their supply is gone.

This has transformed a sector traditionally characterised by State monopolies into a dynamic industry ready to take full advantage of the global market.

The agreement forced SHG to supply all its electricity solely to EDF at French prices and on French conditions for resale to ENEL, preventing SHG from selling its electricity direct to ENEL or negotiating prices in line with conditions on the Italian market; this situation was not in any way justified by - 2 - exclusive rights enjoyed by the EDF monopoly.