The fact that the activity is temporary should not mean that the provider may not equip itself with some forms of infrastructure in the Member State where the service is provided, such as an office, chambers or consulting rooms, in so far as such infrastructure is necessary for the purposes of providing the service in question.

58. Regrets that the Bureau's decision of 13 December 2004 changes the content of Article 14(5) and (7) point (d) of the Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members (as established by the Bureau's decision of 9 February 2004) in such a way that the provisions concerning the contractual and social security obligations of assistants and persons working under service contracts once again show a lack of clarity; calls upon the Bureau to revise the text adopted on 13 December 2004;

Department for Social Development, Northern Ireland Social Security Agency, Network Support Branch, Overseas Benefits Unit, Block 2, Stormont Estate, Belfast BT4 3SJ.

Its intent is to change the name of the Act back to its original name, that is the Unemployment Insurance Act; to specify certain payments that are excluded from earnings; to allow benefits to continue while a claimant is on training to improve employability; to cancel the waiting period; to include dependent contractors; to alter the duration of benefits; to change the added benefits respecting local unemployment; to provide additional benefits for permanent layoff; to create a separate unemployment insurance trust fund to replace the present employment insurance account, which is a part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund; to replace the present Commission with an independent commission to be the trustee of the fund and the administ ...[+++]rator of the Act; to remove the different status of re-entrants and new entrants; to place the burden of proof on the Commission to prove “arm's length” status and “just cause for leaving a job”; to ensure that every office and telephone access has an HRDC representative available.

Some of the provisions of the German Law on Patent Agents (Patentanwaltsordnung) are incompatible with the principles of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services (Articles 43 and 49 of the EC Treaty): these provisions concern the requirements for practising as a patent agent (with regard to nationality, domicile and the opening of offices), and the requirement that agents established in other Member States be represented by a patent agent established in Germany in their dealings with the Patents Office.

As noted by the International Bureau of WIPO, perhaps one of the most significant contributions of the WCT and the WPPT is their recognition of the rights of authors, performers and phonogram producers to authorize the online transmission of their works, fixed performances and phonograms, as the case may be.21 The WCT and WPPT provide that authors, performers and producers of phonograms must be granted exclusive rights to authorize the making available of their works, performances fixed on phonograms and phonograms, respectively, by wire or wireless means, in such a way that members of the public may access those works, performances and ...[+++]phonograms from a place and at a time individually chosen by the members of the public (that is, interactive, on-demand services).