Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and policies, each Party shall strive to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection, including through such environmental laws and policies.
Levels of protection. 1. A Party shall not weaken or reduce the protections afforded in its labour laws.
Levels of protection. 3.1. With regard to the professional clients: • The IB’s obligation for providing information to the clients is considerably limited. The IB shall explicitly notify the client only on: • The presence of a security right or right to retention over the client’s money or financial instruments in favor of the IB and the circumstances at which such rights occur or may occur; The presence of a right for deduction over the client’s money or financial instruments in favor of the IB and the circumstances at which such rights occur or may occur; • The presence and the conditions under which the IB is entitled or may be entitled to a right to deduction in respect of client financial instruments and funds; • When applicable - the possibility that the depository institution has a security right, a right to retention or a right to deduction over the client’s financial instruments or funds; • The IB shall not be obliged to notify the client on the risks involved with the recommended deals with financial instruments, it may do so at its own discretion; • Professional clients shall be able to independently determine the information they need for taking an investment decision and to request from the IB to provide them this information. When providing consultations, the IB shall consider the client able to fully estimate the extent to which the consultations are suitable to his financial abilities and investment objectives.
Levels of protection. Affirming full respect for each Party's constitution, and recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own domestic labor standards, and to adopt or modify accordingly its labor laws and regulations, each Party shall ensure that its labor laws and regulations provide for high labor standards, consistent with high quality and productivity workplaces, and shall continue to strive to improve those standards in that light.
Levels of protection. Affirming full respect for each Party's constitution, and recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own domestic labor standards, and to adopt or modify accordingly its labor laws and regulations, each Party shall ensure that its labor laws and regulations provide for high labor standards, consistent with high quality and productivity workplaces, and shall continue to strive to improve those standards in that light. ANNEX 1 ‐ LABOR PRINCIPLES The following are guiding principles that the Parties are committed to promote, subject to each Party's domestic law, but do not establish common minimum standards for their domestic law. They indicate broad areas of concern where the Parties have developed, each in its own way, laws, regulations, procedures and practices that protect the rights and interests of their respective workforces. 1. Freedom of association and protection of the right to organize The right of workers exercised freely and without impediment to establish and join organizations of their own choosing to further and defend their interests. 2. The right to bargain collectively The protection of the right of organized workers to freely engage in collective bargaining on matters concerning the terms and conditions of employment. Article 19.2:
Levels of protection. Recognizing the right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and environmental development policies and priorities, and to adopt or modify accordingly its environmental laws and regulations, each Party shall ensure that its laws and regulations provide for high levels of environmental protection and shall strive to continue to improve those laws and regulations. Article 37: Enforcement Principle Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to empower a Party's authorities to undertake environmental law enforcement activities in the territory of another Party. Article 4: Publication 2. The Parties recognise the sovereign right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and its own environmental priorities, and to establish, adopt or modify its environmental laws and policies accordingly. 3. Each Party shall strive to ensure that its environmental laws and policies provide for, and encourage, high levels of environmental protection and to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection. 4. No Party shall fail to effectively enforce its environmental laws through a sustained or recurring course of action or inaction in a manner affecting trade or investment between the Parties, after the date of entry into force of this Agreement for that Party. 5. The Parties recognise that each Party retains the right to exercise discretion and to make decisions regarding: (a) investigatory, prosecutorial, regulatory and compliance matters; and (b) the allocation of environmental enforcement resources with respect to other environmental laws determined to have higher priorities. Accordingly, the Parties understand that with respect to the enforcement of environmental laws a Party is in compliance with paragraph 4 if a course of action or inaction reflects a reasonable exercise of that discretion, or results from a bona fide decision regarding the allocation of those resources in accordance with priorities for enforcement of its environmental laws. 6. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, the Parties recognise that it is inappropriate to encourage trade or investment by weakening or reducing the protection afforded in their respective environmental laws. Accordingly, a Party shall not waive or otherwise derogate from, or offer to waive or otherwise derogate from, its environmental laws in a manner that weakens or reduces the protection afforded in those laws in order to encourage tr...
Levels of protection. The Parties reaffirm each Party’s sovereign right to establish its own levels of environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify its environmental laws and policies.
