46. Notes that resource rents should always be seen as an intermediary means to increase domestic revenue; points out that success in taxation of resources often brings advances in direct taxes, such as corporate income taxes, and non-tax revenues, such as royalty fees;

New Intellectual Property (IP) rules were established stipulating sharing the profits from IP rights between companies involved and the KIC legal entity.

7. Calls on the local Moroccan authorities – the evidence of socio-economic development noted by the Ad hoc Delegation when it visited Laâyoune on 27 January 2009 notwithstanding and given that the region’s level of development is still below the Moroccan national average – to take into consideration the demands for an improvement in the socioeconomic conditions of the Sahrawis, who believe that they do not receive a fair share of the profits from their region’s natural resources;

114. Stresses the importance of establishing PCD focal points also in developing countries to improve information exchanges, inter alia on issues beyond EU competences, such as the socially-inclusive use of resource rents or taxation and remittances, and the impact of the so-called ‘brain drain’ on countries of origin; calls on the Commission to mainstream social policy in the work of the EEAS; believes it is essential also for middle-income countries to commit an increasing proportion of their revenue to social purposes, notably by developing taxation systems and social protection;

9. Points out that foreign investment is an essential element for the economic development of both regions and stresses that European undertakings with investments in CAN should be expected to apply the same standards as regards working conditions and investment as are complied with in the European Union, and that the legal security of investors should be guaranteed on the basis of international private law and with full respect for the principle of national sovereignty over natural resources; it is important that the greater part of the benefit of the national natural resources goes ...[+++] to the State and through the State to the realisation of the MDGs.

These will allow a fair rebalancing of the costs borne by individuals and society, and the benefits drawn by each person, while at the same time providing universities with additional funds.