Translation of "Aid for reducing the length a bath " (English → French) :

The cartel settlement procedure is based on the Antitrust Regulation 1/2003 and allows the Commission to apply a simplified procedure and thereby reduce the length of the investigation.

It can be reasonably argued that the inability of employers to hire replacement workers helps to reduce the intensity of labour disputes in the same way that it clearly reduces the length of work stoppages.

1.4. In the case of parcels which have already been converted to or were in the process of conversion to organic farming, and which are treated with a product not listed in Annex II, the Member State may reduce the length of the conversion period to less than the period laid down in paragraph 1.1 in the following two cases:

The parties have also agreed to reduce the length of new free to air broadcasting contracts to a maximum of three years (except for contracts where specific investments justify a length of up to five years).

· The possibility to reduce the length of the procedure for issuing the FRTD: decrease of the response time for Lithuania from 24h to about 10h or 15h; the Lithuanian authorities have stressed that this is not possible in general.

The Commission accordingly proposes that: - the role of its communication to the Ecofin Council meeting in March should be left unchanged; - the content of the communication to the Ecofin Council meeting in July should be developed; the communication will list the measures taken by the Member States pursuant to the guidelines contained in the most recent Annual Economic Report; on the basis of the new forecasts for the current year and for the following year, the communication will reassess the short-term and, if necessary, the medium-term outlook and will set out the Commission's views on the economic and budgetary policy guidelines to be applied in the year ahead; the communication will be transmitted to Parliament and the Economic an ...[+++]d Social Committee; the social partners will be consulted by the Commission; in addition, the Commission requests the Council to ask the governments of the Member States to pass on the communication and any conclusions drawn by the Council to the national parliaments, in accordance with the spirit of Article 5 of the Decision on convergence, so that they can be discussed in the autumn debates on economic and budgetary policy at national level; - the procedure for drawing up and approving the Annual Economic Report should remain unchanged; the Report could certainly be reduced in length, but it would continue to be the Community's main economic policy reference document; the Commission considers it important that the final adoption of the Report should take place after the Council has discussed it in the light of the various opinions delivered; accordingly, there should be better coordination of the dates of the November and December meetings of Parliament and the Ecofin Council.