Traduction de «être exempté de prendre le service » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Member States may exempt payment service providers situated in their territory from the obligations set out in Article 5, as regards transfers of funds to organisations carrying out activities for non-profit charitable, religious, cultural, educational, social, scientific or fraternal purposes, provided that those organisations are subject to reporting and external audit requirements or supervision by a public authority or self-regulatory body recognised under national law and that those transfers of funds are limited to a maximum amount of EUR 150 per transfer and take place exclusively within the territory of that Member State.

The Conservative position that the use of the notwithstanding clause is not required to legislate a traditional definition is also supported by law professor, Alan Brudner, of the University of Toronto, who, by the way, is not a Conservative Party supporter.

19. Is of the opinion that the threshold for exempting public service compensation from notification requirements should be high enough to ensure sufficient flexibility and minimum administrative burden, without unnecessarily distorting competition; agrees in principle to the references suggested by the Commission, i.e. the standard definition of an SME and the threshold for compensation;

20. Is of the opinion that the threshold for exempting public service compensation from notification requirements should be high enough to ensure sufficient flexibility and minimum administrative burden, without unnecessarily distorting competition; agrees in principle to the references suggested by the Commission, i.e. the standard definition of an SME and the threshold for compensation;

By this decision, which certifies that there are no grounds for action in respect of DSD's statutes and guarantee agreements and which exempts the service agreements, the Commission has, for the first time, defined two fundamental principles of its competition policy for the waste disposal sector.

The Commission recently adopted decisions not to oppose exemption for the Joint Operational Service Agreement and the West Coast/Mediterranean Agreement and accordingly allowed both agreements to benefit from the group exemption for liner shipping consortia. The two agreements will be exempt until 21 April 2000.