companies under Luxembourg law known as “société anonyme”, “société en commandite par actions”, “société à responsabilité limitée”, “société coopérative”, “société coopérative organisée comme une société anonyme”, “association d'assurances mutuelles”, “association d'épargne-pension”, “entreprise de nature commerciale, industrielle ou minière de l'Etat, des communes, des syndicats de communes, des établissements publics et des autres personnes morales de droit public”, and other companies constituted under Luxembourg law subject to Luxembourg corporate tax;

(4f) In order to prevent the flight of capital from the European Union, the application of this agreement is conditional upon the adoption and implementation by the dependent or associated territories of the Member States mentioned in the Feira European Council Decision of 19 and 20 June 2000, as well as the United States of America, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino, respectively, of measures which conform with or are equivalent to those contained in Directive 2003/48/EC or in the present agreement on the taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments.

(i) companies under Luxembourg law known as "société anonyme", "société en commandite par actions", "société à responsabilité limitée", "société coopérative", "société coopérative organisée comme une société anonyme", "association d'assurances mutuelles", "association d'épargne-pension", "entreprise de nature commerciale, industrielle ou minière de l'Etat, des communes, des syndicats de communes, des établissements publics et des autres personnes morales de droit public", and other companies constituted under Luxembourg law subject to Luxembourg corporate tax;

Employees with a stake in the outside capital of the enterprise (lenders) receive interest at a higher rate than the country’s usual savings interest rate; the enterprise pays less than the interest charged for long-term outside capital (thus the bank margin is divided between the enterprise and participating employees).

35. Notes that the Helsinki European Council did not adopt the tax package owing to a lack of adequate progress on the two components of the package, i.e. the simultaneous adoption of directives on the taxation of savings and on company taxation; points out that there is no reason to kill off fair tax competition in the European Union and that the priority must be to eliminate the distortions which do exist and are actually disrupting the single market, that the competitiveness of European financial markets on a world scale must be preserved, and the geographical coverage of the directive on the taxation of savings should be extended to dependent or associate territori ...[+++]es where Member States have special responsibilities and to non-Community countries likely to attract capital from the European Union;

(4) Sections 36 to 46 of the North Rhine-Westphalian law on savings banks (Gesetz über die Sparkassen sowie über die Girozentrale und Sparkassen- und Giroverbände).