(34) Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely clarifying and better defining the role of statutory audit regarding public-interest entities, improving the information that the statutory auditor or the audit firm provides to the audited entity, investors and other stakeholders, improving the communication channels between auditors and supervisors of public-interest entities, preventing any conflict of interest arising from the provision of non-audit services to public-interest entities, mitigating the risk of any potential conflict of interest due to the existing system whereby the auditee selects and pays the auditor or the famili ...[+++]arity threat, facilitating the switching of, and the choice of a statutory auditor or an audit firm to public-interest entities, broadening the choice of statutory auditors and audit firms for public-interest entities and improving the effectiveness, independence and consistency of the regulation and oversight of statutory auditors and audit firms providing statutory audits to public-interest entities including as regards cooperation at Union level, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of their scale, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union.

In addition to upholding a certificate of the Attorney General only where information more than minimally relates to certain national interests, it was suggested to the Committee that the Federal Court of Appeal judge performing the review under section 38.131 of the CEA should be required to weigh the public interest in disclosure against the public interest in non-disclosure, as is required when a court considers making a disclosure order under section 38.06.

8. Welcomes the Commission's commitment to clarifying how public service compensation may avoid classification as State aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) of the EC Treaty; affirms the need for the general features and principles of SGIs to be defined at Community level to avoid the possibility of their being overridden by competition rules; points out that the Commission’s explanations on this subject reflect a narrow vision of the public interest and hence of the mission of essential service provision and that the framework f ...[+++]or essential services is in need of a more comprehensive definition, with particular reference to overriding reasons of public interest, systems of mutual assistance, the special nature of the undertakings involved, and their funding in the health-care and social welfare sectors;

We can stall this bill with all sorts of objections to peripheral aspects, completely lost on a public that has grown rightly sceptical of the integrity of the political process and who will cast aspersions on the Senate for putting self-serving interests before the public interest; or we can pass this bill, which is, in essence, a good bill, and give reassurance to the Canadian people that the Senate of 2003 does indeed care about the public interest and pledges itself to govern the ethics of senators' conduct, to give vibrant witne ...[+++]ss that we are putting the public interest first.

Public authorities should be able to refuse a request for environmental information in specific and clearly defined cases. In some of those cases, the public interest served by disclosure should be weighed against the interest served by the refusal to disclose and access to the information requested should be granted if the public interest served by disclosure outweighs the specific interest protected by the non-disclosure. Within this framework, Member States should ensure that the requirements of Directive 95/46/EC [13[ of the European Parliament and of the Council on the p ...[+++]rotection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data are respected.

The public interest served by disclosure should be weighed against the interest served by the refusal to disclose and access to the information requested should be granted if the public interest served by disclosure outweighs the specific interest protected by the non-disclosure.