Traduction de «multinational company » (Anglais → Français) :

76. Stresses that, on the internal market, new entrants and SMEs doing business only in one country are penalised as compared to multinational companies, which can shift profits or implement other forms of aggressive tax planning through a variety of decisions and instruments, available to them only; notes with concern that, all things being equal, the resulting lower tax liabilities leave multinationals with higher post-tax profits, and create an uneven playing field to the detriment of their competitors on the internal market, who do not have recourse to aggressive tax planning and who pay taxes in the place or places where they gener ...[+++]ate their profits; stresses that promoting harmful tax practices through the creation of a European single-member private limited liability company (SUP), the governing rules of which explicitly state that it may have two different seats – i.e., a registered office in one place and an administrative headquarters elsewhere – is the wrong approach for the EU;

Companies are increasingly adopting corporate governance standards, including transparency by signing up to global reporting schemes such as the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), in addition to voluntary guidelines for multinational companies, such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the Global Reporting Initiative, which are setting the transparency agenda.

In the future, if there were no Wheat Board to protect farmers and stand up on their behalf in regard to multinational companies, we could have the possible scenario of prices controlled by the multinationals not only for food grain but also for those involved in biofuels.

The current article in the Commission's proposal is distortive in the current form, because in this way a firm entrusted with some ancillary services by a large multinational company is forced to join a larger VAT Group that covers the multinational company and other smaller firms.

13. Notes also that the Commission highlights the role and responsibilities of multinational companies in the field of protection of human rights, and notes that many multinational companies violate the rights of children in particular – and demands at the least minimum wages, a safe working environment and, as a minimum, basic access to schools and education; welcomes that the European chocolate industry will begin the fight against child labour, but urges that this should not lead to a situation where child prostitution will be the only alternative for the children;

The fundamental aim of the European Company is to eliminate any obstacles to the mobility and functioning of companies that operate on a European scale, enabling them to merge and allowing multinational companies to extend their business activities to other countries in the European Union, thereby increasing the benefits of the Euro and the internal market.