Translation of "Making a fillet weld in the horizontal position " (English → French) :

25. Notes that the EU should have capacity to adjust and reform its internal governance structures in order to ensure a decision-making process able to reflect its plurality and create consensus; stresses the importance that a coherent foreign policy approach at EU level towards the BRICS and other emerging countries be reflected in the functioning of the EEAS; believes that the EEAS should review and strengthen strategic partnerships with individual BRICS countries, in close consultation with Parliament, exploiting their specificities and the potential for synergies and cooperation with the EU; urges the EEAS to devise horizontal and vertical coordi ...[+++]nation mechanisms that will enable EU foreign policy to benefit from EU institutional synergies and from the density and depth of Member States' bilateral ties with strategic partners, including the BRICS and other emerging powers; takes the view that, with regard to the BRICS, in addition to its organisation along geographical and thematic lines, the EEAS should establish an ad hoc coordinating mechanism to ensure that all individual policies towards the BRICS are compatible from a systemic point of view and that the policy lines adopted are reflected in the EU dialogue with emerged powers such as the USA, Canada and Japan; believes that the EU delegations in BRICS countries and other relevant emerging powers should liaise more closely with one another in order to ensure continuous monitoring and analysis on relations amongst the BRICS and relevant cross-sensitivities, thus enabling a more systemic approach; takes the view in this regard that EU Delegations in BRICS countries should analyse the positions of BRICS countries on governance and global challenges and on relations with other BRICS countries; believes that the EU should direct renewed efforts and resources to leading the reform process of a global system of governance and of international organisations with a view to ensuring a more inclusive consensus- ...

The Committee also welcomes the proposals for reforming the product and capital markets as contained in the "Cardiff Report" and makes some comments - generally positive - on market performance, certain horizontal issues (entrepreneurship, state aid and public procurement) and reform in the market for services.

18. Ministers also emphasised the positive contribution which horizontal Community programmes on economic, cultural and academic cooperation involving participation by new sectors of civil society in relations between the EU and Central America could make to encouraging exchange between the two regions.

However, if the Commission undertook to make a horizontal proposal, that is, a more wide-ranging one, which did not only cover the scope of this individual proposal but a whole sector, for example the whole transport sector, and did not wish to extend it to an even more general subject – which however, we will have to do at some point because commitology is an issue which relates to many subjects, and one regulation has already been derogated so we can no longer go back to the former management committee, regulato ...[+++]ry committee or advisory committee – therefore, if, in a fairly short time, the Commission took a more comprehensive position, then we could refrain from making this type of proposal.

5. stresses the importance for business competitiveness of simplifying rules and of keeping them under constant review and welcomes the Commission's efforts to ensure that legislative proposals are justified in cost-benefit terms and to audit certain rules as requested by the European Council in Brussels. 6. stresses the need to persevere with the structural adjustment of European industry to which the Structural Funds, in particular within the framework of industrial transformation, can make a positive contribution, while complying ...[+++]with the powers that the Regulations on the Structural Funds confer on the Member States. 7. stresses the need to establish a consistent set of horizontal measures needed to: - remove the obstacles preventing businesses and in particular SMEs from reaping all the benefits of the completion of the internal market in a stable economic and monetary context, and streamline the regulations and procedures affecting the way they function; - remove obstacles to the setting up of businesses; - promote, account being taken of the rules of competition, the improvement of relations between large firms and SMEs and between suppliers and their customers; - facilitate access to and participation by SMEs in the Fourth Research and Development Framework Programme and the development and operation of the trans-European networks; - speed up the dissemination and exploitation of technological progress in the European Union, particularly in the least-favoured regions.

The positive results obtained (in some cases, recovery ratios of 60% have been recorded) should make it possible, in the medium to long term, to go over to production on an industrial scale; - the completion of the first horizontal drilling operation.