Traduction de «Entente d'achat et de vente » (Français → Anglais) :

(12) ‘cartel’ means two or more horizontal competitors coordinating their behaviour within a market to earn rents above those possible under normal competition, or coordinating their behaviour within a market to exclude undertakings operating under normal market conditions from gaining market share, through practices such as, inter alia, the fixing or coordination of purchase or selling prices or other trading conditions, abusive licensing practices, the allocation of production or sales quotas, the sharing of markets and customers, including bid-rigging, restrictions of imports or exports [...]or anti-competitive actions against other c ...[+++]ompetitors;

Given the differences between the processes for the purchase or sale of residential immovable property in the Member States, there is scope for creditors or credit intermediaries to seek to receive payments in advance from consumers on the understanding that such payments could help to secure the conclusion of a credit agreement or the purchase or sale of an immovable property, and for such practices to be misused in particular where consumers are unfamiliar with the requirements and usual practice in that Member State.

Given the differences between the processes for the purchase or sale of residential immovable property in the Member States, there is scope for creditors or credit intermediaries to seek to receive payments in advance from consumers on the understanding that such payments could help to secure the conclusion of a credit agreement or the purchase or sale of an immovable property, and for such practices to be misused in particular where consumers are unfamiliar with the requirements and usual practice in that Member State.

4. Recalls that, operating through non-transparent processes, arms purchases have contributed significantly to the over-indebtedness of some countries, including a number of Member States; insists, therefore, that there should be greater transparency with respect to the purchase and sale of arms and that information on the intra-Community arms trade should continue to be included in the EU annual report;

(e)‘intermediary activities’ means any activity to arrange purchase and sale or supply of scheduled substances carried out by any natural or legal person who aims to obtain agreement between two parties or to do so through acting on behalf of at least one of these parties without taking these substances into its possession or taking control of the carrying out of such transaction; this definition shall also include any activity carried out by any natural or legal person established in the ►M1 Union ◄ involving purchase and sale or supply of scheduled substanc ...[+++]es without these substances being introduced into the ►M1 customs territory of the Union ◄

Since the acquisition or disposal of financial instruments necessarily involves a prior decision to acquire or dispose taken by the person who undertakes one or other of these operations, the carrying out of this acquisition or disposal does not constitute in itself the use of inside information.