Traduction de «Admission au droit de vote » (Français → Anglais) :

Notes that there are significant discrepancies for Union citizens living in a Member State other than their own with respect to voting rights in national parliamentary elections in their Member State of origin; deplores the fact that many Union citizens thus find themselves disenfranchised both in their Member State of origin and in their adopted Member State; urges Member States to cooperate in order to enable voters residing outside their Member State of origin to exercise their full electoral rights in their Member State of residence, by providing a sufficient number of polling stations covering all the territory and by facilitating ...[+++] easier registration of voters; calls on the Member States also to adopt the necessary legal provisions to guarantee the right to vote for all Union citizens transiting a Member State other than their Member State of origin when national parliamentary elections are being held;

Thanks to them, Canadian women gradually obtained access to rights and privileges that had previously been denied to them, such as the right to vote, the right to occupy positions of trust and responsibility — such as the right to be named senators — and the right to participate more actively in the life of their communities and their country.

any restrictions on voting rights, such as limitations of the voting rights of holders of a given percentage or number of votes, deadlines for exercising voting rights, or systems whereby, with the company’s cooperation, the financial rights attaching to securities are separated from the holding of securities;

4. Where, following a bid, the offeror holds 75 % or more of the capital carrying voting rights, no restrictions on the transfer of securities or on voting rights referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 nor any extraordinary rights of shareholders concerning the appointment or removal of board members provided for in the articles of association of the offeree company shall apply; multiple-vote securities shall carry only one vote each at the first general meeting of shareholders following closure of the bid, called by the offeror in order to amend the articles of association or to remove or appoint board members.

(b) it has not exercised the voting rights attaching to its participating interest in respect of the appointment of a member of a subsidiary undertaking's administrative, management or supervisory bodies during the financial year or the five preceding financial years or, where the exercise of voting rights was necessary for the operation of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of the subsidiary undertaking, no shareholder in or member of the parent undertaking with majority voting rights or member of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of that undertaking or of a member thereof with majority voting rights ...[+++] is a member of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of the subsidiary undertaking and the members of those bodies so appointed have fulfilled their functions without any interference or influence on the part of the parent undertaking or of any of its subsidiary undertakings;

It is foreseen that the EEA Agreement will be quickly extended to the specific programmes of the EC's 4th Framework Programme (1994- 1998) through the "EEA Joint Committee" established in the Agreement. 3. This cooperation implies: a) the same rights and obligations between EEA-EFTA and EU participants in all phases of research projects belonging to the non-nuclear specific programmes of the 3rd Framework Programme, i.e.: - the EEA-EFTA participants will also receive EC funding; - to be eligible, any project proposed by one or more EEA- EFTA participants should include at least one EU participant. - the project leader may come from an ...[+++]EEA-EFTA country; 3 b) the full participation of EEA-EFTA representatives in programme committees, except for voting rights; c) the association of EEA-EFTA representatives with the work of the Joint Research Centre's Board of Governors and of consultative bodies such as CREST, IRDAC and CODEST; d) a financial contribution of the EEA-EFTA countries, (proportional to their GDP) to the specific programmes concerned.