Translation of "Improving port performance " (English → French) :

3. Projects of common interest for motorways of the sea in the trans-European transport network may also include activities that have wider benefits and are not linked to specific ports, such as services and actions to support the mobility of persons and goods, activities for improving environmental performance, such as the provision of shore-side electricity that would help ships to reduce their emissions, making available facilities for ice-breaking, activities ensuring year-round navigability, dredging operations, and alternative f ...[+++]uelling facilities, as well as the optimisation of processes, procedures and the human element, ICT platforms and information systems, including traffic management and electronic reporting systems.

The objective is to contribute to the goal of a more efficient, interconnected and sustainable functioning of the TEN-T by creating a framework which improves the performance of all ports and helps them to cope with changes in transport and logistics requirements.

There is a need for some third countries in the region to improve their performance as flag states and their ranking in the performance list of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on port state control.

As a result, changes should be made in the areas of financial sector reform, fiscal policy and structural reforms, in particular with regard to: (i) providing an updated plan for the gradual relaxation of external restrictions, which the authorities commit to starting only after the successful completion of the comprehensive assessment and a smooth transition to the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM); (ii) further measures to strengthen the banks' management of non-performing loans; (iii) a requirement to conclude the follow-up on the 2013 audit regarding individual financial institutions, impose sanctions if applicable, and make the final decision public; (iv) the provision of further measures to ...[+++]improve the Cooperative Group's operational capacity; (v) the adoption by the Council of Ministers of the new comprehensive framework establishing appropriate corporate and personal insolvency procedures, as well as the adoption by the House of Representatives of the amendments to the legal framework in relation to foreclosures of mortgaged properties (those are two prior actions), with details on the required elements of those two new frameworks; (vi) a revision of the 2014 primary fiscal deficit target of no more than EUR 210 million (1,3 % of GDP) to reflect the fiscal performance in the first half of 2014, the submission of a proposal ensuring the fiscal neutrality of the welfare system reform and the achievement of the 2015 fiscal deficit target, while the primary surplus target for 2017 was revised down to 2,5 % of the GDP in order to smooth the fiscal adjustment over 2017-2018; (vii) the setting of further steps to operationalise the privatisation process in the Cyprus Ports Authority and the Electricity Authority of Cyprus; (viii) the appointment of the new Commissioners and the two Assistant Commissioners of the new tax department, the establishment of a common taxpayer database, and the adoption of necessary regulations to make the enhanced collection powe ...

In the face of growing world trade and the lack of space around most existing European ports, the best solution is to improve their performance.

How are we really going to develop more cabotage in the European Union if we do not improve the performance and efficiency of our current port services?