Translation of "International Sleeping-Car Company " (English → French) :

International Sleeping-Car Company | CIWL [Abbr.]

International Sleeping Car and Touring Company

Trans-Euro-Night | TEN,international sleeping-car service [Abbr.]

International Sleeping-car and Touring Compagny | CIWLT [Abbr.]

By driving the development of European or international standards for these newly emerging tradable goods and technologies (such as nanotechnology and other key enabling technologies, electric cars, health technologies, energy-efficient products, renewables, and other environmental technologies, and business services) Europe can create a competitive advantage for its companies and facilitate trade.

To give a few examples, following an EU intervention, China suspended labelling requirements that would otherwise affect the €680 million-worth EU cosmetics exports; Korea agreed to bring its rules for the size of car seats in line with international rules and Israel enabled companies from the whole of the EU to request market authorisation and export their pharmaceutical products.

The Commission, European consumer authorities and the five major car rental companies - representing two out of three of all private car rentals in the EU - started a dialogue in 2014 after the European Consumer Centres received a large number of complaints from tourists across the EU (see IP/15/5334).The five major car rental companies Avis, Europcar, Enterprise, Hertz and Sixt have now changed and improved their commercial practices, contract terms and internal policies within this dialogue and implementation of the changes is now c ...[+++]ompleted.

46. Is greatly concerned by the crisis which has gripped the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2003; reiterates its condolences to the families of the victims of the clashes; reiterates its support for the independence, unity and territorial integrity of the CAR; reiterates its support for the ceasefire which resulted from the Brazzaville Agreement, initiation of the ‘disarmament, demobilisation, reconciliation’ (DDR) process, the coming pluralist, transparent legislative and presidential elections, and specific action to protect human rights; recalls the importance of peoples’ right to self-determination without outside interference; calls for the swift withdrawal of French troops from the CAR and the closure of permanent foreign m ...[+++]ilitary bases in the country; calls for stronger checks on UN forces and an in-depth, impartial and transparent enquiry into allegations of abuse or crimes committed; is particularly concerned at the vague notions of transnational companies in the CAR, especially those engaged in the extraction of precious stones and the harvesting of timber; recalls the inalienable right of peoples to their natural resources and the obligation of companies to submit to international law; underlines the importance for the EU and its Member States to commit fully – particularly in the Human Rights Council (HRC) – to the establishment by the UN of a binding instrument to be used against companies which fail to respect human rights;