Translation of "Economic method " (English → French) :

Finally, the Commission's decision that Belgium's "excess profit" ruling system was contrary to EU state aid rules was also based on derogations from the "arm's length principle". Profit allocation methods, which do not reflect economic reality: The Commission decided in August 2016 that Apple received illegal tax benefits in Ireland because the tax rulings endorsed a method to internally allocate profits within two Irish Apple group companies, which did not have any factual or economic justification. Inconsistent application of national law, giving rise ...[+++]to a discretionary double non-taxation: Today's investigation into Luxembourg's tax treatment of GDF Suez looks into an alleged inconsistent application of national tax law endorsed in the tax rulings, leading to double non-taxation.

4. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning detailed rules on the further definition and scope of public and concession contracts, on applicable nomenclature by reference to the “Common Procurement Vocabulary”, on mixed contracts, on economic operators, as well as on framework contracts and specific contracts based thereon, covering the maximum duration of framework contracts and the award of and methods for implementing specific contracts based on framework contracts conclude ...[+++]d with a single economic operator or with several economic operators, respectively’.

Believes that the governance structure of the Europe 2020 strategy should be strengthened to ensure that it will achieve its objective; considers that a broader use of binding measures is necessary to make the new strategy a success, instead of continued use of the open method of coordination in the field of economic policy; urges the Council and Commission to come forward with an economic strategy for economic recovery based primarily on EU instruments and not mainly on intergovernmental initiatives;

(33) The Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States, will seek to develop a European statistical method for measuring the economic impact of sport as a basis for national statistical accounts for sport, which could lead in time to a European satellite account for sport (34) In addition, specific sport-related information surveys should continue to take place once every few years (e.g. Eurobarometer polls), in particular to provide non-economic information which cannot be provided on the basis of national statistical accounts for sport (e.g. participation rates, data on volunteering, etc.) (35) The Commission will launch a st ...[+++]udy to assess the sport sector's direct contribution (in terms of GDP, growth and employment) and indirect contribution (through education, regional development and higher attractiveness of the EU) to the Lisbon Agenda (36) The Commission will organise the exchange of best practices among Member States and sports federations concerning the organisation of large sport events, with a view to promoting sustainable economic growth, competitiveness and employment.

In its first opinion, the Committee identified the challenges facing the Union (enlargement, globalisation, a growing dynamic between the centre and the periphery, macro-economic stability, etc.) and the consequences to be drawn; maintaining aid under Objective 1 beyond 2006; overcoming the negative statistical impact of enlargement on average per capita GDP; raising the ceiling set at 0.45% of GDP for the Structural Funds; creating a resource to stabilise regional income in the event of an unexpected economic shock; consolidating the programme of Community Initiatives; adopting an open method ...[+++] of coordination to deal with the problems of economic and social cohesion which the Objective 2 regions are experiencing, and giving priority to investment in the less-favoured regions.

Joint Social Policy Committee (SPC) and Economic Policy Committee (EPC) report of November 2001 on objectives and working methods in the area of pensions: applying the open method of co-ordination [PDF ] This report responds to the request of the European Council to apply the open method of co-ordination in the domain of pensions policy.