In that connection, Akzo and Akcros themselves accept that no uniform tendency can be established in the legal systems of the Member States towards the assimilation of in-house lawyers and lawyers in private practice.

Akzo and Akcros add that the employed lawyer concerned in this case is subject to a code of conduct and to the supervision of the Netherlands Bar.

E. whereas the Tunisian Parliament adopted in early May a law establishing a law school (Institut supérieur des avocats), as provided for in the funding agreement, without taking into account the results of consultations with the association of barristers, and noting the executive’s consequent control over the training and selection of future Tunisian lawyers; recalling the more or less systematic harassment of Tunisian lawyers working to achieve an independent judiciary and the detention, for more than a year, of Maître Abbou, a la ...[+++]wyer; noting with interest that despite numerous requests to be allowed to visit, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers has not received an invitation from the Tunisian Government,

E. whereas, in this connection, the law establishing a Higher Institute for Lawyers, as provided for under the agreement, was adopted by the Tunisian Parliament without any account being taken of the outcome of the consultations with the Lawyers' Association, and whereas this will give the government control over the training and selection of Tunisian lawyers in the future; whereas Tunisian lawyers working for the independence of the judiciary have been systematically harassed and whereas the lawyer Mr Abbou has been detained for more than one year now; noting with interest that, in spite of several requests for a visit, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawye ...[+++]rs has still not received an invitation from the Tunisian Government,

E. whereas the law creating a Higher Institute for Lawyers, envisaged in that convention, was adopted by the Tunisian Parliament at the beginning of May 2006 without the outcome of the consultations with the Lawyers' Association having been taken into account, and noting that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers has still not received an invitation from the Tunisian Government,

E. whereas the law creating a Higher Institute for Lawyers, envisaged in the convention, was adopted by the Tunisian Parliament at the beginning of May, but noting that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers has still not received an invitation from the Tunisian Government,