Ignore that they've got the headings the wrong way round, but it's nice to see that transparency is suitably high-profile.
Now we just need to hold them to these lofty ideals... :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "10 Downing Street" <[email protected]> Date: 19 Jun 2013 12:46 Subject: Concrete steps to ensure a safe and prosperous world To: <[email protected]> Cc: ** The official email of the British Prime Minister [image: G8 Lough Erne 2013]<http://number10.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7739f529e5d9bdba33423bc94&id=abf7d8607c&e=d0ed2099d0> Concrete steps to ensure a safe and prosperous world On the final day of the G8 Summit, leaders of the G8 agreed firm steps that will ensure a safe and prosperous world. Prime Minister David Cameron and other G8 leaders signed the Lough Erne Declaration<http://number10.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7739f529e5d9bdba33423bc94&id=6a7e1e3708&e=d0ed2099d0>, which sets out agreed principles to: - drive growth - reduce poverty - create jobs and prosperity The Declaration sets out governments’ responsibilities to make proper rules and promote good governance to increase transparency, open up trade and reduce corporate tax evasion. [image: Prime Minister David Cameron's press conference at Lough Erne] The G8 leaders hope to make a real difference by acting on the principles in the declaration. On tax - Commit to establish the automatic exchange of information between tax authorities<http://number10.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7739f529e5d9bdba33423bc94&id=43a9559186&e=d0ed2099d0>to fight tax evasion - Support developing countries to collect the taxes owed to them, with access to the global tax information - Agree to publish national Action Plans to make information on who really owns and profits from companies available to tax collectors and law enforcers On transparency - Finalise a series of ambitious trade deals, including the EU-US trade agreement<http://number10.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7739f529e5d9bdba33423bc94&id=9974173b88&e=d0ed2099d0> - Strengthen the multilateral trading system - Cut bureaucracy to make it easier and faster for goods to cross borders. On trade - Empower people to hold governments and companies to account - Agree to an Open Data Charter<http://number10.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7739f529e5d9bdba33423bc94&id=64de9b513d&e=d0ed2099d0>to make budget data and other government information public in an easily accessible way. - Common global reporting standards to make oil, gas and mining companies payments to governments more transparent Read about the commitments the G8 leaders have made at the Summit<http://number10.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7739f529e5d9bdba33423bc94&id=d38cc8c383&e=d0ed2099d0>in Northern Ireland. In closing the Summit, the PM paid tribute to Northern Ireland’s transformation over the last 2 decades, made possible by the courage and determination its people. 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