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In very exceptional circumstances, if and to the extent compliance with a provision of this Directive is incompatible with compliance with the law to which the non-EU AIFM or the non-EU AIF marketed in the Union is subject, it should be possible for the non-EU AIFM to be exempted from compliance with the relevant provision of this Directive if it can demonstrate that: it is impossible to combine compliance with a provision of this Directive with compliance with a mandatory provision in the law to which the non-EU AIFM or the non- EU AIF marketed in the Union is subject; the law to which the non-EU AIFM or the non-EU AIF is subject provides for an equivalent rule having th ...[+++]e same regulatory purpose and offering the same level of protection to the investors of the relevant AIF; and the non-EU AIFM or the non-EU AIF complies with that equivalent rule.

Member countries must reject bids from companies that are not located in any EU member country or in a country with which the EU has a reciprocity agreement. In addition, a minimum of 50% of the product's value must be manufactured within the European Union.

In June 2005, the G8 Finance Ministers, meeting in London, UK, noted the progress the European Union has made towards the 0.39 % ODA target agreed at Barcelona; the announcements by France and the UK of timetables to reach 0.7 % ODA by 2012 and 2013 respectively; and the recent EU agreement to reach 0.7 % ODA by 2015 with an interim target of 0.56 % ODA by 2010 - a doubling of EU ODA between 2004 and 2010.

Second, a medium-sized country, such as Canada, is at a decided disadvantage in dealing with a large bloc of countries, like the EU. Moreover, the EU's economic and political leverage will grow in relation to that of Canada as the Union absorbs up to 13 more countries.

The Spanish put great pressure on the president of the EU council France at the time in the name of EU solidarity. That is a very important point for EU countries.