Witnesses: From the Department of Finance: Gérard Lalonde, Senior Chief, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch; Lise Potvin, Senior Chief, Employment and Investment; Davine Roach, Chief, Pensions, Resources, Trusts and Insurance; Robert Dubrule, Senior Tax Policy Officer, Tax Policy Division, Pensions, Resources, Trusts and Insurance; Wallace Conway, Chief, Corporate Reorganization & Capital Gains; Grant Nash, Tax Policy Officer, Tax Policy Branch, Business & Property; James R. Greene, Tax Policy Officer, Tax Legislation Division, Tax Policy Branch; Catherine Cloutier, Senior Tax Policy Officer, General Legal Services Divisi ...[+++]on; Sanjeev Sivarulrasa, Tax Policy Officer, Corporate and International Tax.

3. Articles 7, 13 and 14 shall not apply to the activities of a natural or legal person where, acting as an authorised primary dealer pursuant to an agreement with a sovereign issuer, it is dealing as principal in a financial instrument in relation to primary or secondary market operations relating to the sovereign debt.

‘authorised primary dealer’ means a natural or legal person who has signed an agreement with a sovereign issuer or who has been formally recognised as a primary dealer by or on behalf of a sovereign issuer and who, in accordance with that agreement or recognition, has committed to dealing as principal in connection with primary and secondary market operations relating to debt issued by that issuer;

‘market making activities’ means the activities of an investment firm, a credit institution, a third-country entity, or a firm as referred to in point (l) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2004/39/EC, which is a member of a trading venue or of a market in a third country, the legal and supervisory framework of which has been declared equivalent by the Commission pursuant to Article 17(2) where it deals as principal in a financial instrument, whether traded on or outside a trading venue, in any of the following capacities:

Action for annulment — Council Decision 2011/866/EU of 19 December 2011 concerning the Commission’s proposal for a Council Regulation adjusting with effect from 1 July 2011 the remuneration and pension of the officials and other servants of the European Union and the correction coefficients applied thereto OJ 2011 L 341, p. 54) — Non-compliance with method for annual adjustment of the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Union — Refusal to adjust correction coefficients relating to places of employment — Misuse of power — Infringement of Articles 64 and 65 of the Staff Regulations and Articles 1, 3 and 10 of Annex XI to the Staff Regulations — Infringement of the ...[+++]principle ‘patere legem quam ipse fecisti’ — Infringement of the principle of equal treatment — Insufficient statement of reasons

be familiar with the principles of marketing, publicity and public relations, including transport services, sales promotion and the preparation of customer files, etc.;