Common use of Methods of Application Clause in Contracts

Methods of Application. This text constitutes an agreement to directly apply in all the companies included in the scope of article 1.1 above, implementing the principles declared below within a time scale of one year at most from the date of signature of this agreement. SUEZ companies at the highest level of negotiation with the Trade Union organisations, or failing this, the staff representative bodies, may enter into negotiations/discussions in order to complete and adapt the content, either at the initiative of management or of the Trade Union organisations, and failing this, of staff representative bodies (Works Committee, Works Council or equivalent) within the same period of one year from the date of signature of the present agreement.