As the allocation of spectrum to specific technologies or services is an exception to the principles of technology and service neutrality and reduces the freedom to choose the service provided or technology used, any proposal for such allocation should be transparent and subject to public consultation.

The process of slot allocation has been improved through a number of new or modified provisions, such as a new definition of what constitutes a series of slots, further strengthening of the use-it-or-lose-it provisions, the possibility for air carriers to re-time slots before allocation to optimise schedules, and more leeway for Member States to introduce local rules and guidelines at congested airports to improve the efficient use of scarce capacity.

We're not arguing with the concept, but the wording in the bill would make that not only not a qualification to have citizenship at birth, but a disqualification to having citizenship at birth.

The EU has transposed the IATA rules on slot allocation into Community law and guarantees that EU airports treat all airlines fairly, EU and non-EU alike, and Japanese carriers have benefited from this approach in insisting that the Japanese authorities respect their commitment to transparent and fair slot allocation the European Commission is defending an important principle.

We have fostered the creation of a grain car allocation policy group representing the grain companies, the railways, the Canadian Wheat Board and farmers, to set policy principles for how railway rolling stock is to be distributed in the service of grain across western Canada.

In 1993, a Government White Paper prepared by the Minister of Justice recommended attributing criminal liability to corporations for the acts and omissions of any of its “representatives” while acting under the corporation’s express, implied or apparent authority (20) Like the Law Reform Commission’s report six years earlier, the White Paper recommended expanding the basis for attribution of crimes to corporations beyond the common law concept of the corporate “directing mind”: the White Paper defined a corporation’s “representatives” as including not only its directors and officers but also its employees and agents.