This amendment seeks to establish a legal basis on international cooperation to contribute to solving current situations such as e.g. where exporters in third countries and in the EU are obliged to apply controls to transfers of dual-use items in the single market (when third countries' laws impose re-export rules within the single market of dual-use items imported), to allow for mutual recognition of export authorisations and therefore to greatly facilitate joint industrial projects or research projects in particular with third countries members of international export control regimes or listed in the current GEA, and to allow for the adoption of EU-wide specific ...[+++] export control rules that would be applicable to the technologies developed in the EU in the context of EU-financed international programmes involving third countries and would also cover access through intangible means to those technologies.

15. Recalls the need to avoid double standards of rights amongst different categories of workers and to safeguard particularly the rights of seasonal workers and paid trainees, who are more vulnerable to abuse;

15. Recalls the need to avoid double standards of rights amongst different categories of workers and to safeguard particularly the rights of seasonal workers and paid trainees, who are more vulnerable to abuse;

Roads or other infrastructure is either non-existent or in very poor condition. After my visit I predicted dire consequences from the neglect, absence of preventive diplomacy and the will to actively prevent or resolve the conflict and the double standards applied by the international community in that region.

We are right to question the logic of this. Bill C-18 intends to correct that double standard.

The uniform parliamentary allowance, equal to the average of current national parliamentary allowances, is envisaged only for new Members in order to avoid personal difficulties and, since 'acquired rights' must be safeguarded, transitional arrangements will actually allow current Members who are re-elected in 1999 to retain their current national allowance where this is higher than the average: this is a dual salary scale!