Translation of "American " (English → French) :

CONVINCED THAT the aforementioned objectives and the strengthening of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission can best be achieved through bringing up to date the provisions of the 1949 Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica for the establishment of an Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission;

On the subject of airline ownership, Europeans will be able to hold more than a 50 % share in American carriers, but not to gain overall control: under American law, a foreigner may not hold 25 % voting shares in an American company and may not control it.

Significantly, American industry, supported by the Federal Aviation Authority, has established close links with the Japanese authorities by exporting American technology in order to develop the Japanese equivalent to Egnos, the MSAS system.

Since October 1993, when the Memorandum of Understanding between the American Department of Defense and the NATO Member Countries for access to the GPS encrypted navigation service was signed, a dozen non-NATO countries and a few civilian administrations (American federal agencies and the Norwegian police, for example) have had access to the service.

Similarly, the NATO Member Countries never worried about the possible consequences of that export policy for NATO security because they knew that American and NATO interests were compatible and because they trust the security mechanisms that the Americans have put in place for GPS.

A report commissioned by the American authorities [4] highlights the vulnerability of the entire US transport infrastructure, which is increasingly dependent on the American satellite radionavigation system, GPS, used both as an aid to navigation and as a tool to determine the precise position of vehicles within new improved surveillance systems and as a synchronisation reference for the majority of networks (energy, telecommunications, etc.). It concludes: "The civil transportation sector, seeking the increased efficiency made possible by GPS, is developing a reliance on GPS that can lead to serious consequences if the service is disrup ...[+++]ted, and the applications are not prepared with mitigating equipment and operational procedures".