the amount, the average maturity, the pricing formula, the maximum number of instalments, the availability period of the Union financial assistance and the other detailed rules needed for the implementation of the assistance;

extend certain disclosure requirements contained in the existing Recommendation to improve shareholder oversight of remuneration policies; ensure that shareholders, in particular institutional investors, attend general meetings where appropriate and make considered use of their votes regarding directors´ remuneration; provide that non-executives should not receive share options as part of their remuneration to avoid conflict of interests; strengthen the role and operation of the remuneration committee through new principles on (i) the composition of remuneration committees; (ii) the obligation for the members of the remuneration comm ...[+++]ittee to be present at the general meeting where the remuneration policy is discussed in order to provide explanations to shareholders; (iii) avoiding conflicts of remuneration consultants.

Hon. John G. Bryden: The honourable senator's reference to hockey players in comparison to others reminded me of a cocktail party I attended where the conversation came around to the scandalous remuneration of the presidents of banks, and so on.

The implementing rules shall include a specific procedure for the selection of experts, to be paid on the basis of a fixed amount, for assisting the institutions, in particular in evaluating proposals and grant applications or tenders for procurement, and for providing technical assistance in the follow-up to, and final evaluation of, projects financed by the budget’.

France has shown that as from 1988 the remuneration paid by SFMI-Chronopost for the assistance covers all the costs incurred by the Post Office, plus a contribution by way of interest on its equity capital.

We've seen the conversion of millions of permanent and well-paid jobs to precarious, low-wage, part-time, and contract employment.