Translation of "Advise a customer on maintaining optical products " (English → French) :

A complementary approach that both promotes the principle of better regulation and ensures a high level of protection can be achieved where the products made by the manufacturers of optical radiation sources and associated equipment comply with harmonised standards devised to protect the health and safety of users from the hazards inherent in such products; accordingly, it is not necessary for employers to repeat the measurements or calculations alrea ...[+++]dy undertaken by the manufacturer to determine compliance with the essential safety requirements of such equipment as specified in the applicable Community Directives, provided that the equipment has been properly and regularly maintained.

(14) Tobacco growing is of historical importance on the islands. Economically speaking, tobacco preparation continues to be one of the chief industrial activities in the region. In social terms, tobacco cultivation is very labour intensive and carried out by small farms. Since the crop is not sufficiently profitable it is in danger of dying out. Tobacco is currently cultivated only on a small area on the island of La Palma, where it is used for the artisanal manufacture of cigars. Spain should therefore be authorised to continue to gr ...[+++]ant aid in addition to the Community aid so that this traditional crop can be maintained with a view to supporting the artisanal activity associated with it. In addition, to maintain the manufacture of tobacco products, imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco should continue to be exempt from customs duty, up to an annual limit of 20000 tonnes of stripped raw tobacco equivalent.

(17) Whereas, where the rate of refund is differentiated according to the destination of the exported products, proof should be furnished that the product concerned has been imported into a third country; whereas completion of customs import formalities consists notably in the payment of import duties applicable in order that the product may be marketed in the third country concerned; whereas considering the diversity of situatio ...[+++]ns prevailing in the importing third countries, it is advisable to accept the production of customs import documents which give assurances that the products exported have arrived at their destination, whilst hindering trade as little as possible;

(3) Whereas, under the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, the Community has undertaken gradually to reduce the customs duties resulting from the tarification of the former levy system; whereas the reduction in customs duties must be accompanied by a fall in Community prices to enable the competitiveness of the Community product to be maintained; whereas, to prevent income losses for producers resulting from the aforementioned reduction in institutional prices, it is appropriate to establish a system of compensatory pay ...[+++]ments for production granted per hectare and intended to maintain present profitability levels for the crop, the amount of which is fixed on the basis of the envisaged price reduction and the agronomic yields recorded in the various Member States over a period considered to be representative; whereas for this purpose it is appropriate to choose the highest result between:

Whereas, by converting all the measures restricting imports of agricultural products into customs duties (tarification) and by prohibiting the application of such measures in the future, the Agreement requires the abolition of variable import levies and of the other measures and import charges currently provided for under the market organizations; whereas the rates of customs duty applicable to agricultural products in accordance with the Agreement are to be fixed in the Common Customs Tariff; whereas, however, for certain product g ...[+++]roups such as cereals, rice, wine and fruit and vegetables, the introduction of supplementary or other trade mechanisms that do not involve the collection of fixed customs duties calls for the adoption of rules providing for derogations in the basis regulations; whereas, in addition, the measures to protect the Community market against imports of dried grapes and processed cherries can, under the Agreement on Safeguards, be maintained for a period of five years; whereas, moreover, in order to avert problems of supply to the Community market, the suspension of customs duties on certain sugar products should be permitted;

( 15 ) WHEREAS THE COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES CONFERRED BY THE SUPPLIER ON THE RESELLER MAKE IT SIGNIFICANTLY EASIER TO ESTABLISH , MODERNIZE , MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PREMISES USED FOR THE SALE AND CONSUMPTION OF DRINKS AND SERVICE STATIONS ; WHEREAS THE EXCLUSIVE PURCHASING OBLIGATION AND THE BAN ON DEALING IN COMPETING PRODUCTS IMPOSED ON THE RESELLER INCITE THE RESELLER TO DEVOTE ALL THE RESOURCES AT HIS DISPOSAL TO THE SALE OF THE CONTRACT GOODS ; WHEREAS SUCH AGREEMENTS LEAD TO DURABLE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES ALLOWING THEM TO IMPROVE OR MAINTAIN THE QUALITY OF THE CONTRACT GOODS AND OF THE SERVICES TO THE CUSTOMER AND SALES EFFORTS OF THE RESELLER ; WHEREAS THEY ALLOW LONG-TERM PLANNING OF SALES AND CONSEQUENTLY A COS ...[+++]T EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION ; WHEREAS THE PRESSURE OF COMPETITION BETWEEN PRODUCTS OF DIFFERENT MAKES OBLIGES THE UNDERTAKINGS INVOLVED TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER AND CHARACTER OF PREMISES USED FOR THE SALE AND CONSUMPTION OF DRINKS AND SERVICE STATIONS , IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WISHES OF CUSTOMERS ;