Furthermore, a requirement that the court first seised has implicitly or expressly recognised its jurisdiction by a judgment which has become final would deprive of all their effectiveness the rules laid down by EU law intended to resolve situations of lis pendens and would increase the risk of parallel proceedings, which EU law specifically seeks to avoid.

31. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to examine the possibilities of simplifying and standardising VAT rules in the context of crossborder online transactions; points out that the existing European VAT framework is a barrier to the development of new digital services, and that encouraging companies to develop and offer new Europe-wide online services should be a priority in the revision of the VAT rules; considers that digitally distributed cultural, journalistic or creative content should be subject to the same VAT rate as the equivalent product in a physical format or offered offline, in order to avoid market distortion; ...[+++] calls on the Commission and the Member States to seize the opportunity offered by the 2015 changes to the VAT rules in order to create and extend a ‘European One-Stop Shop’ for e-commerce, at least for SMEs;

25. Calls on the Commission, as part of the intended simplification of the state aid rules, to introduce greater flexibility and transparency in the monitoring of over-compensation and in particular to improve measures to prevent over-compensation; suggests, to this end, that, in the case of multiannual contracts, checks for over-compensation should be carried out only at the end of the contractual period and in any event at intervals of no more than three years and that transparent criteria should be set for the calculation of compensation payments for SGEI, as this would result in significant time and cost savings for both service pro ...[+++]viders and the public authorities;

In short, the rules of democracy are not to be changed unless all citizens in a society agree, to ensure that the rules of democracy, the electoral rules, the rules on electoral funding, the election procedures and the rules on electoral boundaries are the result of consensus and a transparent and impartial process.

WORKER INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION The Council held a discussion on the Commission communication on worker information and consultation and on the following points in particular: - the advisability of making the "European company", the "European association", the "European co-operative society" and the "European mutual society" subject to Community rules on worker information and consultation at national level in addition to the existing Directive on European Works Councils; - the desirability of rules for worker participation in the organs of those entities; - the desirability of a mandatory link between the regulations concerning th ...[+++]e four entities and the relevant rules on worker information, consultation and, where appropriate, participation; - the advisability of setting up a high-level study group to provide a more thorough knowledge of national systems and draw up recommendations for future action.

It seems that RCMP management is disturbed by this Federal Court of Appeal's decision since it means, according to some people, that the other rules of Treasury Board would also apply to the RCMP and its law enforcement officers, namely those concerning pay equity, the enforcement of official languages laws and working conditions, except the right to form a union.