Sentences with phrase «legitimate policy objectives»

The balance struck within a TPP chapter between measures designed to facilitate international trade and / or investment and a host state's sovereign right to regulate as a means of achieving legitimate policy objectives, including the protection of human rights, health, the environment, public morals, cultural institutions, the financial sector or intellectual property.

The Electronic Commerce chapter retains a provision that prevents parties from blocking the transfer of personal information to other jurisdictions unless there is a legitimate policy objective to restrict such transfers.

Not exact matches

(at 129) He elaborates on the objectives of the OMT programme as monetary policy measures, which trigger the transmission mechanism and have an impact on interest rates on government bonds of specific countries, and states that all these objectives were, with regard to the deterioration of the sovereign debt market for several states in summer 2012 legitimate.

With respect to the rational connection element, the Agency accepted that the source of the obstacle (their policy of setting fares on a per seat basis) was rationally connected to a legitimate objective (the recovery of costs incurred to provide the service and to provide economic benefit to the carriers) which is recognized in section 5 of the Act.

While recognizing that legitimate social policy objectives can justify a derogation from the prohibition of discriminating on the grounds of age, in this case, the objectives of this measure invoked by the Hungarian government — the need to standardize the age - limits for retirement for public sector employees and to establish a balanced age structure to facilitate access to younger members into the profession — were deemed to be neither necessary nor appropriate in the circumstances.

While recognizing that legitimate social policy objectives can justify a derogation from the prohibition of discriminating on the grounds of age, in this case, the objectives of this measure invoked by the Hungarian government — the need to standardize the age - limits for retirement for public sector employees and to establish a balanced age... [more]

Article 6 of the Directive allows member states to provide that «differences of treatment on grounds of age shall not constitute discrimination, if, within the context of national law, they are objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim, including legitimate employment policy, labour market and vocational training objectives, and if the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary».