Other amendments include requiring calling service providers to keep copies of scripts and recordings for three years instead of one; allowing the Chief Electoral Officer and the Commissioner of Canada Elections to exchange information and documents; allowing the commissioner to publicly disclose information about investigations where it is in the public interest; increasing the spending limit for elections, with a longer writ period than the 37-day period; adding a clear prohibition against a third-party unable to show a link to Canada incurring more than $500 in an election; clarifying the intent of giving the commissioner the unrestricted ability to ...[+++]begin investigations by removing the bill's proposed evidence threshold before the commissioner may begin an investigation; clarifying the intent of having no limitation period for offences under the Canada Elections Act that require intent; making the term of the Chief Electoral Officer non-renewable; clarifying that all those who apply for a special ballot and vote at the office of the returning officer must prove their identity and residence, as they would at a polling station, thereby closing a potential loophole; and clarifying that the annual report of the Director of Public Prosecutions must contain a section prepared by the Commissioner of Canada Elections through which the commissioner would report on the activities of his office, without providing information about specific investigations.

5. Has already addressed the problematic of high carry-overs, the subsequent professional activities of the former Executive Director, the missing Declarations of Interests by a number of experts involved in the evaluation of medicinal products also mentioned in the Internal Audit Service follow-up report and the overdue decision by the Management Board to reform the payment system for services provided by Member States' authorities in its first opinion to the responsible committee; is of the opinion that the EMA ...[+++] has already made significant efforts to strengthen its internal procedures to assure the independence of its experts and its staff and has asked to be informed twice a year about the improved implementation of the measures taken in this regard;

Since 2000, I have been executive director of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB), responsible for financial stability and oversight of financial infrastructures and payments systems.

· Executive Director of the National Bank of Belgium, in charge of Financial Stability and Oversight of Financial Infrastructures and payments systems

Peter Praet was appointed executive director of the National Bank of Belgium in 2000 and is responsible for financial stability and oversight of financial infrastructures and payments systems.

E. whereas after the presidential elections there are increasing worrying signs of erosion of democracy and pluralism with regard, in particular, to the treatment of some NGOs and individual complaints by journalists about pressure from their editors or owners of their media outlets to cover or not cover certain events, as well as increased and politically motivated activity of Ukraine’s Security Service and political misuse of administrative and judicial system resources; whereas the head of the Kiyv office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, who had just presented a critical report on Yanukovich’s first 100 days in ...[+++]government, was stopped with no reasons in July at the Kyiv airport for 8 hours and allowed to enter Ukraine only after the intervention of the German embassy,