On the European level one can think of Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi and even beyond Europe, changing from a po-sition in the government to the central bank is not unusual, recent examples are the Governor of the Bank of Canada and his Deputy, Mark Carney and Tiff Macklem.

11. Notes, not without concern, that the Commission submitted to the Council a proposal for modifying the negotiating directives authorising the Commission to negotiate with Canada on investment without waiting for Parliament to adopt its position on the future EU investment policy in general; calls on the Commission to take fully into account the conclusion of the European Parliament on this subject in its negotiations on investment with Canada; considers that, given the highly developed legal systems of Canada and the EU, a state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism and the use of local judicial remedies are the most appropriate too ...[+++]ls to address investment disputes; calls on the Commission to ensure that a potential investor-to-state dispute settlement mechanism does not inhibit future legislation in sensitive policy areas, such as environmental legislation, and is embedded in broader requirements as outlined in Parliament's resolution on future European international investment policy;

10. Notes, not without concern, that the Commission submitted to the Council a proposal for modifying the negotiating directives authorising the Commission to negotiate with Canada on investment without waiting for Parliament to adopt its position on the future EU investment policy in general; calls on the Commission to take fully into account the conclusion of the European Parliament on this subject in its negotiations on investment with Canada; considers that, given the highly developed legal systems of Canada and the EU, a state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism and the use of local judicial remedies are the most appropriate too ...[+++]ls to address investment disputes; calls on the Commission to ensure that a potential investor-to-state dispute settlement mechanism does not inhibit future legislation in sensitive policy areas, such as environmental legislation, and is embedded in broader requirements as outlined in Parliament's resolution on future European international investment policy;

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Family and Labour Studies Division of Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the Econometrics and Statistical Support to Antifraud (ESAF) Unit, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the Support to the European Research Area (SERA) Unit, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have to be regarded as bodies fulfilling the required conditions and should therefore be added to the list of agencies, organisations and institutions referred to in Article 3(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 831/2002.

· the Canadian “commitments” (cited in a generic way in the Article 2 (1) of the agreement and detailed in the annex of the Commission Decision – art. 29, 30 and 31) create rights of access, rectification and opposition to EU citizens who are not present in Canada for the passenger and bind the Canada administration instead of being simple administrative declarations, as is the case for the US undertakings.

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