Where any Water Project may, in the opinion of an Entitlement Band, reasonably be expected in a discernible way to adversely affect an Entitlement Band’s common law riparian rights, the Entitlement Band and Canada and/or Saskatchewan, as the case may be, agree to jointly review or, if applicable, jointly conduct any environmental impact assessments or other studies concerning the effects, or possible effects, of any Water Project as may be statutorily required.

Mr. Aldridge: The threat is to the treaty right of self-government, the ability to make laws in respect of the use of land, the location of the use of land and the control over the use of land.

The Working Time Directive precludes national rules which make entitlement to paid annual leave conditional on a minimum period of 10 days’ actual work

(13) The objective of this Directive, namely the modernisation of Community law on the organisation of working time and enhancing its enforceability, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States and can, therefore be better achieved at Community level; the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

When these local development agreements are concluded with a restricted category of public or semi-public bodies defined in Article L.300-4 of the town planning code (e.g. semi-public companies), these bodies may also be given the right to perform the procedures for the expropriation decided by the State of the land to be developed.

Paragraph 3 of that Article stipulates, for products listed in Annex V (manufactured tobacco among other things), how that obligation is to be carried out: Spain is required to abolish its exclusive import rights by progressively opening, from 1 January 1986, import quotas for products from the other Member States. The quota volumes and the annual rates of increase are laid down in Annex V. Article 48(3) further stipulates that the quotas in question must be opened for all operators without restriction and that goods imported under those quotas may not be subject in Spain to exclusive marketing rights at the wholesale level.