A foreign person or a company in which foreign participation ensures a majority in adopting decisions or blocks the adoption of decisions, directly or through other companies with foreign participation, is to obtain a permission for: (i)distribution of weapons, munitions or military equipment; (ii)banking or insurance activities, or participation in banking or insurance companies; (iii)prospecting, development or extraction of natural resources from the territorial sea, continental shelf or the exclusive economic zone; (iv)acquisition of participation which ensures a majority in adopting decisions or blocks the adoption of decisions in a ...[+++] company engaged in any of the activities specified in (i), (ii) and (iii) above.With respect to banking and insurance referred to in (ii) and (iv), the criteria for authorisation or permission are prudential and are consistent with the obligation of Articles XVI and XVII of the GATS.

| PL: authorisation of the establishment of a company with foreign equity is required in the case of: establishment of company, purchase or acquiring of shares or stocks in an existing company; extending of the activity of the company when the scope of activity embraces at least one of the following areas:management of seaports and airports,dealing in real estate or acting as intermediary in real estate transactions,supply to defence industry that is not covered by other licensing requirements,wholesale trade in imported consumer goods,provision of legal advisory services.establishment of a joint-venture company with a foreign equity in which the Polish Par ...[+++]ty is a State legal person and is contributing non-pecuniary assets as initial capital,arranging a contract, that includes right to use of state property for more than six months or decides on acquiring of such property.SI: for financial services, authorisation is issued by the authorities indicated in sector specific commitments and according to conditions indicated in sector specific commitments.

PL: Authorisation of the establishment of a company with foreign equity is required in the case of establishment of company, purchase or acquiring of shares or stocks in an existing company; extending of the activity of the company when the scope of activity embraces at least one of the following areas:management of seaports and airports,dealing in real estate or acting as intermediary in real estate transactions,supply to defence industry that is not covered by other licensing requirements,wholesale trade in imported consumer goods,provision of legal advisory services,establishment of a joint-venture company with a foreign equity in which the Polish party ...[+++]is a State legal person and is contributing non-pecuniary assets as initial capital,arranging a contract, that includes right to use of State property for more than six months or decides on acquisition of such property.SI: For financial services, authorisation is issued by the authorities indicated in sector specific commitments and according to conditions indicated in sector specific commitments.

The Commission has also made its position on registration clear to the PCAOB via its comment letter to the draft rules and by the participation at the PCAOB Roundtable on the registration of foreign audit firms in Washington.

the price for SFP was determined at the end of a large-scale tendering procedure, in which the largest actors in the audiovisual sector (58 French and foreign companies) were invited to take part and the most favourable bid was accepted.

As an exception to this general principle, the European company (SE) Regulation and Directive rules should apply if at least one of the merging companies has an average number of employees in the six months before the publication of the draft terms of the cross-border merger that exceeds 500 and is operating under an employee participation system, or where the national law applicable to the company resulting from the cross-border merger does not provide for at least the same level of participation as operated in the relevant merging companies, measured by reference to the proportion of members of the administrative or of the supervisory ...[+++]organ or their committees or of the management group, which covers the profit units of the company, subject to employee representation, or provide for employees of establishments of the company resulting from the cross-border merger and situated in other Member States the same entitlement to exercise participation rights as is enjoyed by those employees employed in the Member State where the registered office of the company resulting from the cross-border merger is situated.