Traduction de «Export Promotion Centre Iran » (Anglais → Français) :

45. Calls on the Commission and Council to take immediate steps to ban the export of surveillance technology (especially monitoring centres) by EU companies to Iran;

In other words, development is promoted in order to liberalise international trade through a model promoting exports, regulated at world level, with a ‘centre’ and a ‘periphery’.

All Iran’s neighbours are more or less ‘producers’ of permanent instability: to the east Afghanistan, with its Taliban regime as a centre (inter alia) of world-wide drugs exports, and Pakistan with its nuclear potential, its military regime and its recurring conflicts with India; to the north the weak Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan with their unresolved border issues; to the north-west the conflict regions of the Sout ...[+++]hern Caucasus and Eastern Turkey with its Kurdish problem; to the west Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Although the Community is pleased to welcome Japanese investment, like any other investment, it has several times expressed the wish that such investment should fit harmoniously into the industrial fabric of the regions in question (for example where subcontracting is concerned. Direct Japanese investment, which totalled USD 19.6 billion in the 1987 financial year, represented 14.1% of direct Japanese investment abroad. The Commission attaches the greatest importance to increasing Community investment in Japan, which has until now remained at a relatively modest level, largely because of the unfavourable climate for foreign investment in Japan. The ratio of Japanese investment in the Community to Community investment in Japan is at present ...[+++]15 to 1. In December 1986 the Community and Japan agreed to set up an industrial cooperation centre with the aim of encouraging contacts between European and Japanese firms and also helping European firms to gain access to the Japanese market, for example through appropriate training for their executives and the provision of useful market information. The centre was opened in Tokyo on 2 June 1987 for a trial period of two years. As part of its ever-expanding export promotion programme the Commission finances market research and participation by European firms in Japanese trade events. It also provides regular financing for an Executive Training Programme which enables some 50 young European executives to spend 18 months studying the Japanese language and Japanese business methods. The tenth programme of this type began in April of this year.

This dialogue should enable both sides to better understand the development of transport policy within and between the European Union and Japan. By opening a channel of communication permitting early discussion of new developments it should also serve to enhance understanding thereby reducing potential conflict. It also offers potential for cooperation in transport issues affecting the larger Asia-Pacific region. 12. NEW PROJECTS The idea of creating a "European House" in Tokyo has been launched by the European Parliament. It concerns the establishment of a centre for EU- related activities in Tokyo, that would have the advantage of offe ...[+++]ring economies of scale for several areas in which the EU and its Member States are already active (e.g. industrial co-operation, export promotion) and providing a basis for new activities, such as the establishment of a European cultural presence in the Japanese capital.

Apart from these two components, the Government has defined the flanking measures which it will take in order to achieve the following aims: (a) develop infrastructure; electricity, telecommunications, roads, ports, airports; (b) tax reform: application of laws and standards (c) promoting private investment (revising the investment code, making administrative procedures more flexible, creating a specialized import/export information centre (d) promoting foreign trade - application of incenti ...[+++]ve measures to stimulate exports (e) reducing state expenditure by eliminating superfluous costs. Outside economic strategy, the new Government has reaffirmed the priority nature of two issues connected with reform of the governmental system: decentralization and the judicial system. Decentralization involves the granting of greater budget and administrative autonomy with a view to providing public services closer to the citizen to the new municipalities recently elected or to be elected.