Traduction de «GTIS Enterprise Common Application Development Plan » (Anglais → Français) :

Ensure that the "Think Small First" approach is the guiding principle, while bearing in mind the three pillars of sustainable development when assessing the impact of existing and forthcoming legislation on SMEs at the Community level; bring forward specific proposals for reducing the burden of EU regulation on SMEs through its programme of simplification, and assessing administrative burdens using the EU common methodology; Bring forward specific provisions to encourage SME growth and development, such as longer transition periods, ...[+++] reduced fees, simplified reporting requirements and exemptions; Ensure that this approach takes into account all SMEs, traditional enterprises as well as enterprises with high growth potential ("gazelles"); Improve the role of the SME Envoy in fostering the application of the "Think Small First" principle in all Community initiatives and programmes; Propose measures for more efficient participation of SMEs in the European standardisation process and take an active part in the implementation; Review the public procurement rules and practices, taking into account the specific needs of SMEs, in order to facilitate their access to public procurement markets and practices;

promoting access to and efficient use of ICTs by SMEs by setting up infrastructure in the most remote regions, by supporting access to networks, the establishment of public Internet access points, equipment, and the development of services and applications, including in particular the development of action plans for very small and craft enterprises.

(b) promoting access to and efficient use of ICTs by SMEs by setting up infrastructure in the most remote regions, by supporting access to networks, the establishment of public Internet access points, equipment, and the development of services and applications, including in particular the development of action plans for very small and craft enterprises.

With regard to the broader issue of respect for fundamental rights and specifically women’s rights in Nigeria and the rest of Africa, the Council is determined to pursue the policy which it has long been implementing in this field and, in particular, by means of the following instruments: the Cotonou Agreement, Article 9(2) which lays down the parties’ obligations, their international commitments, in relation to the respect for human rights, and reaffirms the equality between men and women, the Cairo declaration and action plan approved at the Afr ...[+++]ica-Europe Summit held in Cairo in April 2000, which insists on respect for human rights, the Common Position relating to human rights, democratic principles, the Rule of Law and good government in Africa 98/350/PESC and Council Regulation (EC) 965/99, which establishes the requirements for the application of Community development cooperation actions which contribute to achieving the general objective of development and consolidating democracy under the Rule of Law, as well as respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms and specifically Common Position 01/373/PESC on Nigeria, which expressly mentions the respect for human rights.

Many of the planned measures are directed towards this objective: - improving the accessibility of legislation: 1996 plans include recasting the legislation relating to veterinary medicines and agricultural tractors and consolidation of the directives on machinery, technical standards and regulations, fertilizers, collective dismissals, dangerous substances and preparations, and the regulations on the common organization of the sug ...[+++]ar market and the financing of the common agricultural policy; - rationalizing the legislation: examples are the general review of the strategy on waste, the framework proposal on water (integrated management), the follow-up to the Green Paper on food law, the horizontal rules governing State aids to replace the existing rules for the motor industry, man-made fibres and textiles; - lightening the administrative and other burdens resulting from legislation: for instance, simplification of the directive on the marketing of plant health products (single, fast-track procedure for certain pesticides); review of current thresholds and reference-back clauses in the merger-control regulation; simplification of rules of origin for Central and Eastern Europe, EFTA and the Mediterranean; promotion of use of administrative sources for statistical purposes; - widening the range of available instruments, notably by developing alternative approaches in place of legislation: implementation of the new non-legislative approach to accounting; development of frameworks for voluntary agreements with industry on environmental protection and "green" taxes and charges in the Member States; - facilitating the application of legislation by decentralization (e.g. Notice on cooperation with national authorities in competition law matters) or by flanking measures (e.g. methodological and financial support to the Member States for the implementation of the regulation on business statistical surveys).

- 4TH ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ISDN - COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS The Council, Having regard to Council Recommendation 86/659/EEC on the co-ordinated introduction of the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) in the Community; Having regard to the Annual ISDN Progress Report 1993 from the Commission; Having regard to the launching of EURO-ISDN based on harmonized standards at the end of 1993; Whereas the Council Recommendation of 5 June 1992 (1) calls for the application of the open network access principles to ISDN; Whereas the Council in its Resolution of 5 June 1992 (2) has recognized the importance of developing ISDN in the context of trans- European networks; Whereas EURO-ISDN is considered as a first major element of the advance ...[+++]d information networks in the Community; Whereas EURO-ISDN will rapidly develop into a universal access and delivery platform for generic services and applications; Whereas EURO-ISDN is of particular importance for the 14 million small and medium-sized enterprises in the Community which typically depend on a general, publically available service offering; Encourages the public network operators: - to continue their co-ordination with regard to the introduction of EURO-ISDN in the Community; (1) OJ No L 200, 18.7.1992, p. 10 (2) OJ No C 158, 25.6.1992, p. 1. - to co-operate for the enhancement of the common set of services notably with a view to ensuring interoperability of generic services; - to introduce a harmonized packet mode bearer service on the D-channel on the ISDN access throughout the Community, taking into account market demand; Invites the Commission: - to continue with the promotion of the co-ordinated introduction of EURO-ISDN in the Member States of the Community; - to continue with the support for the European ISDN User Forum; - to undertake where necessary suitable initiatives for the availability of compatible generic services.