Translation of "The Business Link-Business Service Centre " (English → French) :

In the case of an individual exercising an independent business or professional activity, the centre of main interests shall be that individual's principal place of business; in the case of any other individual, the centre of main interests shall be the place of the individual's habitual residence.

Member States should: Make eGovernment services fully interoperable, overcoming organisational, technical or semantic barriers and supporting IPv6; Ensure that the Points of Single contact function as fully fledged eGovernment centres beyond requirements and areas covered by the Services Directive; Agree by 2011 on a common list of key cross-border public services that correspond to well defined needs – enabling entrepreneurs to set up and run a business ...[+++] anywhere in Europe independently of their original location, and allowing citizens to study, work, reside and retire anywhere in the European Union. These key services should be available online by 2015.

More specifically, Mr Patriciello was charged with having played a role in directing, controlling and supporting the actions of the chair of Neuromed and the legal representative of the 'Paola Pavone' Foundation who, on 11 September 2000, drew up a contract for the free use of the 'offending' institute located in the municipality of Salcito, between the 'Paola Pavone' Foundation (owner and builder of the building in question) and the Neuromed, in order to allow the latter welfare and research institution to run the facility in question ‘for its own profit (...) as an “advanced rehabilitation centre” under (temporary) accreditation arrang ...[+++]ements with the Region, excluding any form of social or welfare provision’; the institute in question, moreover, had allegedly ‘already been built thanks also to disbursement by the Region of a substantial sum (ITL 1 400 000 000) tied to the operation of the institute (also) as a social and health care institute’ and was run ‘as if it were a private enterprise under political patronage, also seeking, through the “satellite sectors” that are inevitably linked to such an operation (recruitment, business for local shops, various companies, businesses, etc.) to acquire and/or consolidate political consensus, especially locally, and to embezzle the financing already obtained – using that funding for very different purposes that were totally incompatible with those for which it had been granted.

In order to enable the next air traffic control unit to start exchanging data with the aircraft, where area control centres concerned do not have an in-common data link connectivity service, automated processes related to logon information and communication with the next authority should be implemented.

The Commission proposes the creation of a Disaster Response Training Network linking existing centres of excellence of the Member States to further enhance both the preparedness of civil protection services and the capacity of teams and modules from different Member States to work together.

Mr President, the directive includes – and this is important – all information society services, both business to business and business to user services, such as those which allow electronic operations to take place – interactive telesales of goods and services, on-line ‘shops’, for example; services which are offered free, such as those financed through advertising or sponsorship, the on-line press, on-line databases, on-line financial services, on-line professional services – lawyers, doctors or other professionals – leisure services such as video on d ...[+++]emand, direct marketing and all services accessed via the Internet.