Translation of "Information Technology Planning and Services Section " (English → French) :

16. Emphasises that entrepreneurs, SMEs, business associations and support organisations should be more literate on financing possibilities for more performant technologies, or for contracting services such as consultancy, coaching and training on eco-design, resource management and green entrepreneurship and availability of green technologies, products and services that could be beneficial ...[+++] for their business; calls on Member States to enhance provision of services for SMEs in those areas and also emphasises the need for simple and accessible sources of information and databases for these products and services; reminds the Commission and the Member States that this information should be communicated in a way that corresponds best with the logic and working methods of SMEs;

16. Emphasises that entrepreneurs, SMEs, business associations and support organisations should be more literate on financing possibilities for more performant technologies, or for contracting services such as consultancy, coaching and training on eco-design, resource management and green entrepreneurship and availability of green technologies, products and services that could be beneficial ...[+++] for their business; calls on Member States to enhance provision of services for SMEs in those areas and also emphasises the need for simple and accessible sources of information and databases for these products and services; reminds the Commission and the Member States that this information should be communicated in a way that corresponds best with the logic and working methods of SMEs;

9. Expects joint action to overcome the effects of the financial crisis on the real economy; calls for the setting of benchmarks with regard to future employment and growth rates, which should then help to determine the size and components of the European economic recovery plan; calls, in this context, for the development – in the framework of the growth and stability pact and its rules of flexibility – of a coherent European strategy for future investments (e.g. in qualified and skilled human capital to allow technological breakthroughs and dev ...[+++]elopment, innovation, energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructures, communication technologies, interconnection and services including health services, and opportunities for business life, not least for SMEs to invest in new products and markets), the safeguarding of jobs and income, as well as better coordination of economic and social policies;

9. Expects joint action to overcome the effects of the financial crisis on the real economy; calls for the setting of benchmarks with regard to future employment and growth rates, which should then help to determine the size and components of the European Economic Recovery Plan; calls, in this context, for the development – in the framework of the growth and stability pact and its rules of flexibility – of a coherent European strategy for future investments (e.g. in qualified and skilled human capital to allow technological breakthroughs and development, innovation, energy e ...[+++]fficiency, sustainable infrastructures, communication technologies, interconnection and services including health services, and opportunities for business life, not least for SMEs to invest in new products and markets), the safeguarding of jobs and income, as well as better coordination of economic and social policies;

Promoting the competitiveness of firms within a fully integrated single market, and particularly industrial competitiveness, entrepreneurship, the growth of small businesses, the innovative potential, innovation, investment in information technology for public services, eco-efficient technologies.

6. In the context of the general policy guidelines determined by the State and taking into account national plans and contracts (which may be multi-annual) including investment and financing plans, infrastructure managers shall, in particular, be free to:- establish their internal organisation, without prejudice to the provisions of this Section; - take decisions on staff and own procurement; - manage their own assets as efficiently as possible, develop new technologies and new s ...[+++]ervices and adopt any innovative management techniques".