Announcements of the Company required by law shall be published in the German Electronic Federal Gazette (Elektronischer Bundesanzeiger), on the website of the Company and, in addition, in an appropriate Gazette of the European Union.

(c) Article 5(2) of the EU-U.S. Extradition Agreement as set forth in Article 3(3) of the Annex to this Agreement shall govern the requirements concerning certification, authentication or legalization of the extradition request and supporting documents;

(b) Articles 5(1) and 7(1) of the EU-U.S. Extradition Agreement as set forth in Article 3(1) of the Annex to this Agreement shall govern the mode of transmission of the extradition request and supporting documents, and shall provide an alternative method for transmission of the request for extradition and supporting documents following provisional arrest;

The Government has, in order to support the companies which are about to complete the transitional restructuring and to improve the position of companies facing difficulties, prepared the Act Governing the Rescue and Restructuring Aid for Companies in Difficulty (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 110/02) which represents the legal basis for granting funds to those companies in accordance with the EU rules on granting state aid for the purposes of business, financial and human resources restructuring as the starting-point for their competitiveness in the future.

In order to improve the position and increase the competitiveness of companies in the textile, clothing, leather and footwear industries, the Government will continue till the end of 2003 to carry out the programme of adapting the Slovene textile, clothing, leather and footwear industries to the conditions of the EU internal market 2000-2003. After that period, aid will be provided for improving the position and increasing the competitiveness of companies in the above industries in the form of development incentives and pursuant to the provisions of the Act Governing the Rescue and Restructuring Aid for Companies in Difficulty (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 110/02).

A taxable person - employer - financing a pension collective benefits scheme and meeting the conditions referred to in Articles 302 to 305 of the Pension and Disability Insurance Act (Uradni list RS, No. 20/04-official consolidated text) may claim a reduction of the tax basis by the amount of the voluntary supplementary pension insurance premiums paid by him, either partly or in full, for the benefit of the employees - insured persons, to the pension scheme to the pension scheme provider with a registered office in Slovenia or in an EU Member State, in accordance with a pension scheme approved and entered in a special register in compliance with the regulations governing voluntary supplementary pension and disability insurance, for the year in which the said premiums were paid, however not exceeding the amount equalling 24% of the statutory contributions for pension and disability insurance relating to employees - insured persons, and not exceeding SIT 549,400 a year, however not exceeding the amount of the tax basis for the tax period in question.

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It should therefore be used only on the last of the IM/c, EX/c, EU/c or CO/c forms attached to an IM, EX, EU or CO document in order to show the total payable by type of tax.

Parliament shall ensure the utmost transparency of its activities, in line with the provisions of Articles 1, 3, second paragraph, 28(1) and 41(1) of the EU Treaty, Article 255 of the EC Treaty and Article 42 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

The Contracting Parties agree that documentary evidence referred to in Article 5(2) of this Memorandum of Understanding, shall include passports, visa applications, EU immigration control records, travel agency documents, or photocopies thereof.

(b) On the level of the Commission departments, security is the responsibility of one or more Local Security Officers (LSO), one or more Central Informatics Security Officers (CISO), Local Informatics Security Officers (LISO) and Local EU Classified Information Registries with one or more Registry Control Officers.

(48) In addition to the tier two assets eligible for Eurosystem monetary policy operations, the ECB may authorise National Central Banks to grant intraday credit against debt instruments which are considered eligible for intraday credit by non-participating EU central banks and which are:

From 1 January 2001, and in addition to the provisions of Paragraph 4.1, the tariff rates applied by Ukraine to exports of EC origin of products of HS chapters 50 to 56 and 58 to 63 shall not exceed the rates the EC has bound as Schedule CXL in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as contained in Appendix 7. Accordingly, for any given year of the period 2001 to 2004, the tariff rates applied by Ukraine shall not exceed the rates the EU has bound for that year.

In view of the current EU enlargement process, the EU will seek to intensify dialogue with Ukraine on the adjustment of Ukraine's visa policy with the EU through the introduction of visa requirements in accordance with EC provisions and introduction of travel documents which are sufficiently non-forgeable.

Customs declarations (single administrative documents) are the main source of statistical information on trade in goods between the EU and non-member countries.

If the Hong Kong SAR does not issue the travel document requested within 15 days of the date of the request it shall be deemed to accept use of the EU standard travel document for the purposes of readmission.

If the Hong Kong SAR does not issue the travel documents requested within 15 days of the date of the request it shall be deemed to accept use of the EU standard travel document for the purposes of readmission.

If the Macao SAR has not replied to the request by a Member State within 15 (fifteen) days, it shall be deemed to accept the use of the EU standard travel document for expulsion purposes.

Openness contributes to strengthening the principles of democracy and respect for fundamental rights as laid down in Article 6 of the EU Treaty and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

On the level of the Commission departments, security is the responsibility of one or more Local Security Officers (LSO), one or more Central Informatics Security Officers (CISO), Local Informatics Security Officers (LISO) and Local EU Classified Information Registries with one or more Registry Control Officers.

These include the principles reflected in the Charter of fundamental rights of the EU, including the following: protection of human dignity and human life, protection of personal data and privacy, as well as animals and the environment in accordance with Community law and relevant international conventions and codes of conduct, e.g. the Helsinki Declaration in its latest version, the Convention of the Council of Europe on Human Rights and Biomedicine signed in Oviedo on 4 April 1997, and the Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings signed in Paris on 12 January 1998, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Universal Declaration on the human genome and human rights adopted by UNESCO, and the relevant World Health Organisation (WHO) resolutions.