6. Commends the setting-up by the EIB and ten of the EDFI partners of European Financing Partners S.A. and calls on the EIB to strive for more Community-funded projects with other development finance institutions and, in particular, to consider risk-sharing models involving the taking on of a first-loss tranche;

6. Commends the setting-up by the EIB and ten of the EDFI partners of European Financing Partners S.A. and calls on the EIB to strive for more Community-funded projects with other development finance institutions and, in particular, to consider risk-sharing models involving the taking on of a first-loss tranche;

The licensee must be able to serve the after market for his own products, including independent service organisations that service and repair the products produced by him.

32. Recognises that whilst only 2% of transatlantic trade causes disputes between the two parties, solutions should be expedited in accordance with obligations under WTO rules and a means found to work more closely and effectively together to manage potentially divisive trade disputes, such as the ongoing steel dispute and the foreign sales corporation tax; calls on the Commission to enhance the early-warning mechanism and to evaluate the creation of a formalised inter partes procedure which could help to solve trade disputes bilaterally before opening the existing multilateral WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure;

Multi-level Direct Selling companies are thus prevented from developing a truly pan-European sales and marketing strategy because of the numerous disparities among national laws throughout the EU.

It was verified on the spot that the commissions paid to Japan for the domestic sales constituted mere internal transfers of cash, since the participation of the Japanese related companies in domestic sales could not be established.