Traduction de «Projet de loi interdépendant » (Français → Anglais) :

J. whereas the draft law governing trade unions would violate the right to organise and would severely limit the rights of independent trade unions, including existing unions; whereas the draft law sets an unreasonably high minimum threshold for the number of workers who must join before a union can be formed (20 %); whereas the draft law gives sweeping powers to Labour Ministry officials as regards the approval of strikes and the suspension of union registration on flimsy grounds and without due ...[+++]process; whereas the draft law excludes domestic workers from the right to unionise, makes union leaders subject to literacy requirements which discriminate against women and non-nationals, prohibits contacts with NGOs, and sets ineffectively low fines for employers who violate labour law;

I. whereas it is expected that the country will lose USD 600-700 million in development projects annually once the law has been passed; whereas LANGO would place restrictions on budgets, which would threaten the capacity of international NGOs to run cost-effective projects;

A. whereas the Anti-Homosexuality Bill tabled by private Member David Bahati MP on 25 September 2009 before the Ugandan Parliament foresees the punishment of homosexual acts by imprisonment between seven years and life as well as the death penalty; whereas the Bill foresees the punishment of a failure to disclose a child's or patient's homosexuality by up to three years‘ imprisonment; whereas the Bill is still under consideration,

Group No. 1 Mr. Bernier (Bonaventure Gaspé Îles-de-la-Madeleine Pabok), seconded by Mr. Godin (Châteauguay), moved Motion No. 1, That Bill C-27 be amended by adding after line 10 on page 3 the following new clause: ``1.1 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 2: 2.1 The objectives of this Act include the implementation of the Agreement, in accordance with which, in order to conserve and manage straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks, coastal States and States fishing on the high seas shall, in giving effect to their duty to cooperate in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982: (a) adopt measures to ensure long-term sustainability of straddling fish stocks and ...[+++]highly migratory fish stocks and promote the objective of their optimum utilization; (b) ensure that such measures are based on the best scientific evidence available and are designed to maintain or restore stocks at levels capable of producing maximum sustainable yield, as qualified by relevant environmental and economic factors, including the special requirements of developing States, and taking into account fishing patterns, the interdependence of stocks and any generally recommended international minimum standards, whether subregional, regional or global; (c) apply the precautionary approach in accordance with article 6 of the Agreement; (d) assess the impacts of fishing, other human activities and environmental factors on target stocks and species belonging to the same ecosystem or dependent upon or associated with the target stocks; (e) adopt, where necessary, conservation and management measures for species belonging to the same ecosystem or dependent on or associated with the target stocks, with a view to maintaining or restoring populations of such species above levels at which their reproduction may become seriously threatened; (f) minimize pollution, waste, discards, catch by lost or abandoned gear, catch of non-ta ...

The draft Law simply reproduces the provisions contained in Decree-Law No 14 of 21 January 1992, which was not converted into law by the Italian Parliament and in respect of which the Commission initiated the Article 93(2) procedure by decision of 21 June 1992 (OJ No C 240 of 19 September 1992). Today's decision thus extends the decision taken in June (see IP(92) 514) against the draft Law in question.

We have four recommendations, as follows: First, the EFC recommends that the bill be defeated by the Senate as it is hasty and ill-conceived; second, that if rights, benefits and obligations are to be extended to non-marital relationships, they ought rather to be based on economic and social interdependence rather than some form of sexual intimacy; third, that the cohabitation period be three years, rather than one year; and fourth, that the definition of marriage added to Bill C-23 be made justiciable.