2.2 The Participants will jointly determine, where appropriate, to provide information about forthcoming bid opportunities and proposed contracts in a timescale that will enable interested companies to obtain copies of the tender documents necessary for the preparation and submission of their bids.

The Director-General may, acting in an ex officio capacity, offer good offices, conciliation or mediation with the view to assisting Members to settle a dispute.

j) endeavour, at the request of one of the parties concerned, by using his good offices, to settle disputes between them arising from the interpretation or application of the Convention;

In a conflict where no Protecting Powers are appointed the Director-General may lend good offices or act by any other form of conciliation or mediation, with a view to settling the disagreement.

(3) For works orders awarded by a concessionaire that is not a public client, the deadline for receipt of applications for participation shall be at least 37 days from the day of submitting a request for publication of the public tender notice in the official journal of the Republic of Slovenia and/or the European Union, while the deadline for receipt of bids shall be at least 40 days from the day of submitting a request for the publication of a public tender notice in the official journal of the Republic of Slovenia and/or the European Union or a call for bids.

In dispute settlement cases involving a least-developed country Member, where a satisfactory solution has not been found in the course of consultations the Director-General or the Chairman of the DSB shall, upon request by a least-developed country Member offer their good offices, conciliation and mediation with a view to assisting the parties to settle the dispute, before a request for a panel is made.

Member States shall ensure that systems of telecommunications services operated via a gateway on their territory, which for the lawful interception of the communications of a subject present in another Member State are not directly accessible on the territory of the latter, may be made directly accessible for the lawful interception by that Member State through the intermediary of a designated service provider present on its territory.

In the case referred to in paragraph 1, the competent authorities of a Member State shall be entitled, for the purposes of a criminal investigation and in accordance with applicable national law and provided that the subject of the interception is present in that Member State, to carry out the interception through the intermediary of a designated service provider present on its territory without involving the Member State on whose territory the gateway is located.

electronic signatures relating to tenders, requests to participate and the forwarding of plans and projects comply with national provisions adopted pursuant to Directive 1999/93/EC;

such vacancies are for the recruitment of homogeneous groups of seasonal workers of whom at least one named member has been offered a vacancy;

electronic signatures relating to tenders, requests to participate and applications for qualification as well as to the forwarding of plans and projects comply with national provisions adopted pursuant to Directive 1999/93/EC(1);

(1) In the dissemination of technical specifications to tenderers and candidates and the selection of suppliers or service providers and in connection with the award of public contracts the contractor may require the protection of confidential information which it makes available to them.

To be able to perform their functions satisfactorily, supervisory authorities should at all times be able to require the parties to a bid to provide information concerning themselves and should cooperate and supply information in an efficient and effective manner, without delay, to other authorities supervising capital markets.

whereas the Commission should be empowered to extend the time limit for the transmission of offers in appropriate circumstances;

Whereas for administrative reasons it is necessary to fix a time limit for the submission of applications for compensation by producers to the competent authorities in order to be admissible, as well as the time limits for the transmission of offers and their acceptance;

The Commission may decide in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 16 to authorise the transmission of offers of compensation to producers whose circumstances are such as to satisfy the requirements for establishing the liability of the Community, but who have not obtained compensation pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 2187/93 or under the preceding provisions of this Regulation.

It must be received by the competent authority not later than three months following the date of transmission of the offer in order to be binding.

Failure to accept the offer within three months of its transmission shall mean that it shall not be binding in the future on the Community institutions concerned.

by no more than 10 days, the application shall remain valid and the period of 21 days for notifying the particulars specified in paragraph 5 shall run with effect from the new closing date for the submission of tenders,

Provision and transfer of financial information, and financial data processing and related software by suppliers of other financial services.

Although commercial negotiation is the preferred method for reaching agreement on technical and pricing issues for local loop access, experience shows that in most of the cases regulatory intervention is necessary due to imbalance in the negotiation power between the new entrant and the notified operator, and lack of other alternatives.

Whereas the experience of the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 2187/93 has shown the advisability of providing for a power to authorise the transmission of compensation offers to producers who fail to comply with certain conditions set out in the arrangements fixed in the Regulation, but whose circumstances nevertheless satisfy the conditions laid down in the judgments of the Court of Justice or Court of First Instance with regard to the liability of the Community,

A system vendor shall make any of the distribution facilities of a CRS available to any subscriber on a non-discriminatory basis.

electronic signatures relating to tenders, requests to participate and the forwarding of plans and projects comply with national provisions adopted pursuant to Directive 1999/93/EC;

"service enhancement" means any product or service offered by a system vendor on its own behalf to subscribers in conjunction with a CRS, other than distribution facilities.

'service enhancement' shall mean any product or service offered by a system vendor on its own behalf to subscribers or consumers in conjunction with a CRS other than distribution facilities;

electronic signatures relating to tenders, requests to participate and applications for qualification as well as to the forwarding of plans and projects comply with national provisions adopted pursuant to Directive 1999/93/EC(1);

If the system vendor adds any improvement to the distribution facilities provided or the equipment used in the provision of the facilities, it shall offer these improvements to all participating carriers on the same terms and conditions, subject to current technical limitations.

To be able to perform their functions satisfactorily, supervisory authorities should at all times be able to require the parties to a bid to provide information concerning themselves and should cooperate and supply information in an efficient and effective manner, without delay, to other authorities supervising capital markets.

A system vendor offering distribution facilities in respect of scheduled passenger air services shall allow any air carrier the opprotunity to participate, on an equal and non-discriminatory basis, in these facilities within the available capacity of the system concerned, subject to any technical constraints outside the control of the system vendor.

'distribution facilities' shall mean facilities provided by a system vendor to a subscribor or consumer for the provision of information about air carriers' schedules, availability, fares and related services and for making reservations and/or issuing tickets, and for any other related services;

Where an information society service is provided that consists of the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service, Member States shall ensure that the service provider is not liable for the automatic, intermediate and temporary storage of that information, performed for the sole purpose of making more efficient the information's onward transmission to other recipients of the service upon their request, on condition that:

If a system vendor has decided to add any improvement to the distribution facilities provided or the equipment used in the provision of the facilities, it shall provide information on and offer these improvements to all participating carriers, including parent carriers, with equal timelines and on the same terms and conditions, subject to any technical constraints outside the control of the system vendor, and in such a way that there will be no difference in leadtime for the implementation of the new improvements between parent and participating carriers.'

Provision and transfer of financial information, and financial data-processing and related software by providers of other financial services

Pursuant to Article 26 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2799/1999 of 17 December 1999 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the grant of aid for skimmed milk and skimmed- milk powder intended for animal feed and the sale of such skimmed- milk powder fn, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 438/2000 fn, intervention agencies have put up for sale by standing invitation to tender certain quantities of skimmed- milk powder held by them.