G. whereas a new facilitator, Abdoulaye Bathily, was appointed by the UN Secretary‑General as a replacement for Said Djinnit, the UN special envoy to the Great Lakes region, who has stepped down from his role as facilitator of the political dialogue between the ruling party and those who do not want Pierre Nkurunziza to stand for a third term; whereas the ruling party is refusing to take part in the political dialogue which has resumed under the aegis of the new facilitator and the ‘facilitation’ group consisting of representatives of the UN, the African Union (AU), the EAC and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICG ...[+++]LR);

1. Air carriers operating or intending to operate at a schedules facilitated or coordinated airport belonging to the network shall submit to the schedules facilitator or coordinator all relevant information requested by them. If this information changes, the air carriers shall inform the schedules facilitator and the coordinator as soon as possible.

to that end, the coordinator or schedules facilitator, whether as a natural or legal person, must not have been employed by, or worked regularly with, the airport managing body or a service provider or airline operating at or from the airport in question during the two years preceding his/her/its appointment and during the two years from the cessation of his/her/its duties as a coordinator or schedules facilitator; [Am. 35]

16. Reiterates continuous previous recommendations of the EP to enhance transparency in EIB's selection of financial intermediaries and the way ‘global loans’ are allocated, and insists on the need for action to be taken to put these into affect; stresses the need for clearer conditions and stricter lending effectiveness criteria; encourages the EIB to elaborate without delay new, coherent and effective instruments for a better supervision of the financial intermediaries collaborating with the EIB in supporting SMEs in Europe before the end of 2012;

4. Within local Schengen cooperation, information shall be exchanged on the performance of the accredited commercial intermediaries concerning irregularities detected and refusal of applications submitted by commercial intermediaries, and on detected forms of travel document fraud and failure to carry out scheduled trips.

It is therefore appropriate for intermediation in insurance and intermediation in financial services to be treated in the same way, including intermediation by an agent who has neither a contractual relationship nor any other direct contact with any of the parties to an insurance or financial transaction to whose conclusion the agent has contributed. In such cases the tax exemption should uniformly cover all activities that are typical of an insurance or financial services agent, including all activities preparatory and subsequent to concluding a contract.