Traduction de «mine à effet dirigé » (Français → Anglais) :

To that end, it shall investigate serious matters relating to the discharge of professional duties constituting a dereliction of the obligations of officials and other servants of the Union liable to result in disciplinary or, as the case may be, criminal proceedings, or an equivalent failure to discharge obligations on the part of members of institutions and bodies, heads of offices and agencies or staff members of institutions, bodies, offices or agencies not subject to the Staff Regulations (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘officials, other servants, members of institutions or bodies, heads of offices or agencies, or staff members’).

To that end, it shall investigate serious matters relating to the discharge of professional duties constituting a dereliction of the obligations of officials and other servants of the Union liable to result in disciplinary or, as the case may be, criminal proceedings, or an equivalent failure to discharge obligations on the part of members of institutions and bodies, heads of offices and agencies or staff members of institutions, bodies, offices or agencies not subject to the Staff Regulations (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘officials, other servants, members of institutions or bodies, heads of offices or agencies, or staff members’).

The category of managers in Italian law is, indeed, very broad and even includes workers not entrusted with particular management powers in the context of the undertaking and defined as managers only in that they possesses a high level of professional qualifications.

From this alone, one cannot infer however that therefore the value of Olympias should be evaluated at EUR 5,5 million negative. This is because, in principle, owning a mine also confers an option value: the owner can operate the mine when times are good (gold prices are high enough) and choose not to operate when times are bad (gold prices are not high enough).

The Commission states that, in a situation similar to SNCM’s relating to the company Les Mines de Salsignes, a sub-branch of BRGM (public company of an industrial and commercial nature) (173), the commercial division of the Court of Cassation ordered BGRM and its subsidiaries, as de facto directors, to pay the entirety of the shortfall in assets jointly and severally with the other directors of the company Les Mines de Salsignes (174). The portion of the social debts chargeable to the company Coframines and BGRM and therefore, ultimately, to the State, was 73,6 %.

Although life saving and human security elements are the core targets of mine actions, the socio-economic impact of antipersonnel landmines (APL) on populations and their negative effects on efforts to reduce poverty and instability cannot be ignored.