Traduction de «écartement de coupe » (Français → Anglais) :

The measures in this bill would streamline decision-making and improve the ability to determine up front what constitutes a complete application; and provide a strengthened authority to abandon applications where applicants do not take the steps requested to provide information and appear before a hearing, where they have not taken on their responsibilities as citizens to get the job done.

A. whereas empirical evidence shows that the economic, financial and social crisis has brought the convergence process to a halt or has even reversed it, thus aggravating disparities between regions and bringing to an end a long period during which regional disparities in GDP per head, and unemployment within the EU, had been consistently decreasing, while at the same time affecting more severely the weaker regions in the Union;

A. whereas empirical evidence shows that the economic, financial and social crisis has brought the convergence process to a halt or has even reversed it, thus aggravating disparities between regions and bringing to an end a long period during which regional disparities in GDP per head, and unemployment within the EU, had been consistently decreasing, while at the same time affecting more severely the weaker regions in the Union;

Question No. 552 Mr. Hoang Mai: With regard to tax evasion and its effects on the Canadian economy: (a) does the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) publish estimates of the tax gap caused by offshore tax avoidance, and, (i) if so, which method does the government utilize to calculate this gap, (ii) if not, why not; (b) what is the 10-year trend for (i) the number of transfer pricing audits, (ii) the budgeting for and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) staffing of auditors dealing with transfer pricing audit; (c) what is the amount of annual capital flow from Canada to the United States resulting from bilateral trade mispricing (i) per capital flow, ( ...[+++]ii) by proportion of total trade, (iii) per tax loss; (d) what is the amount of annual capital flow from Canada to the European Union resulting from bilateral trade mispricing (i) per capital flow, (ii) by proportion of total trade, (iii) per tax loss; (e) what is the amount of annual capital flow resulting from multilateral trade mispricing (i) per capital flow, (ii) by proportion of total trade, (iii) per tax loss; (f) what are the internal deadlines set by the Exchange of Information (EOI) Services (CRA) as concerns responses to EOI requests received, (i) how many EOI requests received does the CRA deal with per year, (ii) what is the 10-year trend for EOI requests received by the CRA, (iii) what is the median response time for an EOI request received by the CRA, (iv) from which jurisdiction does the CRA receive the most EOI requests, (v) from which jurisdiction does the CRA request the most EOIs; (g) does Canada collaborate with its EOI partners to ensure the EOI provisions are not restricted, and, if so, (i) with which jurisdictions, (ii) to what specific ends, (iii) have there been any changes to the CRA approach as a result of these collaborations; (h) how prevalent are bearer shares in Canada, (i) what measures exist to ensure that ownership information is available with no exceptions, (ii) are all nominees obliged to ma ...

By increasing levels of competition, the Internal Market can do much to ensure that firms are quick to adopt innovative technologies, increase quality and reduce prices for consumers, and as such the Internal Market is central to the EU's aim of enhancing its competitiveness vis-à-vis its main trading partners. However, some key economic indicators suggest that the Internal Market's impact on competition has recently slowed down. First, the growth of manufacturing trade inside the EU has begun to falter, which generally means less pressure on companies to improve their performance. This contributes to a second phenomenon which is that pr ...[+++]ices across the EU are no longer converging even though price differences between EU Member States far exceed those between different regions of the USA. Third, the EU is investing more in the rest of the world than the rest of the world is investing in the EU, a warning perhaps that it is more urgent than ever to reform the EU's general regulatory environment and kick-start its Internal Market once again.

Notwithstanding the fact that cigarettes and fine-cut tobacco intended for the rolling of cigarettes have different characteristics, they are both harmful for the health and in that sense there is little justification for a wide variation in the minimum rates applicable to these products at Community level.