A person undertaking another activity at the same time (e.g. studies or self-employment) can rely on his EU status as a worker, even if the second activity is performed in another Member State[33].

The EESC welcomed the green paper on shadow banking (18), considering it an important step towards dealing with existing problems, emphasising, among other things, that there should be no such thing as ‘shadow’ activities and that these activities should be subject to the same regulatory and prudential requirements as the financial system as a whole.

This parallel activity will also be based on the compilation and analysis of the ISS09 findings and will be pursued through workshops and bibliometric analysis during the course of 2010 and 2011.

The Forum will ensure the links with parallel and complementary activities in the domain of intelligent transport systems like Cars21, the European Road Safety Action Programme in particular the European Road Safety Charter[14], the “Intelligent Transport Systems for logistics and intermodality” initiative announced in the Community Lisbon Programme and, in the field of the environment, the European Climate Change Programme working group on light vehicles[15].

5. Where a payment institution provides any of the payment services listed in the Annex and, at the same time, is engaged in other business activities, the competent authorities may require the establishment of a separate entity for the payment services business, where the non-payment services activities of the payment institution impair or are likely to impair either the financial soundness of the payment institution or the ability of the competent authorities to monitor the payment institution's compliance with all obligations laid down by this Directive.

A method for an "auto learning class" was initiated as a side-activity of the KELTIC project (Spain) by a group of professionals in 2001 to be completed in 2002.