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The Chair (Mr. Joe Fontana, (London North Centre, Lib.)): Colleagues, while we're waiting for the minister to get here, I wonder if we could move to the second part of the agenda, which is the adoption of the second report of the subcommittee on agenda and procedure, and get that out of the way if we could.

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The Commission concluded that the scale of recommended minimum fees of the Belgian Architect’s Association was in breach of EC competition rules because they could facilitate price co-ordination.

The Directive also includes rules for payment systems which are not based on netting but on gross settlement systems (where each payment order is settled individually on a real time basis as it arises during the day): The proposed Directive would also exempt payment systems from national rules giving retroactive effect to the insolvency of a participant in a payment system, such as the zero-hour rule. Such retroactive effect allows the liquidator of an insolvent institution to challenge payment orders which have already been introduced into the payment system, thus leading to the unwinding of the settlement operation. This unwinding is h ...[+++]ighly disruptive and can lead to systemic risk. The same is true for revocation of payment orders. Revocation of a large payment order in a payment system during the settlement process, could lead to systemic risk. The Directive would therefore bar revocation of payment orders after the moment contractually fixed by the payment system participants. The insolvency of a participant in a payment system, insofar as it concerned its dealings with the payment system, would be governed by the insolvency law of the country where the payment system was located, according to the proposed Directive. This would avoid conflicts of law and the ensuing legal uncertainty and thus facilitate cross-border participation in payment systems. Collateral security is pledged by the participants in a payment system in order to secure its exposures against the other participants. When collateral security is provided in a cross-border arrangement, its realisation in case of default of the pledging participant can be hindered by conflicts of law which may either weaken the collateral security or even render it unenforceable. In order to ensure collateral security can be realised immediately and in priority over all other creditors (so as not to jeopardise the liquidity of the other participants in the system, i.e. to avoid systemic risk) in the case of a defaul ...