Traduction de «The Status Service Quality in Revenue Canada » (Anglais → Français) :

29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve service quality in relation to economic operators and other persons and to reduce the administrative burdens on them; supports the Commission’s efforts to encourage traders across the EU to apply for AEO status; is concerned, however, that considerable investments necessary to obtain AEO status might be a serious obstacle for traders, especially SMEs; calls on the Commission to consider simplifying the procedure for applying for A ...[+++]EO status;

51. Emphasises the ambiguity with regard to Member States’ right to insist upon social, environmental and quality criteria in public procurement tenders and contracts, and draws attention to the changes in the legal framework brought about by the Lisbon Treaty and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights; in the context of fair trade, the prevention of a race to the bottom and the delivery of quality services, calls for the exte ...[+++]nsion of the concept of ‘most economically advantageous offer’ such that calls for tender and procurement contracts, as well as subcontracts for provision of SGI, including SSGI, would have to include the relevant Member State's national and/or local social, environmental and service quality criteria, which should be linked to best international practice; stresses that, in order to maintain standards, criteria for acceptance of tenders must not be based solely on price; urges that reforms take into account the specific status of not-for-profit and social economy providers;

In the case of public service contracts not awarded according to Article 5(3), these parameters shall be determined in such a way that no compensation payment may exceed the amount required to cover the net financial effect on costs incurred and revenues generated in discharging the public service obligations, taking account of revenue relating thereto kept by the public service operator and a reasonable profit and the amount necessary for investments needed to improve the availability, accessibility and the ...[+++]quality of the passenger services;

6. Points out that closer coordination of local actors could help strengthen rural economies, especially in the most vulnerable regions, including the mountain regions, and in the most distant among them, such as the outermost regions; emphasises that territories could benefit from a better organisation with a view to identifying the full potential their resources (including latent resources) offer, in the interests of all the actors linked by a relationship of interdependence and solidarity (i.e. those involved in the agriculture sector, handicrafts and craftsmanship, tourism, heritage, and including producer’s organisations, associations and chambers of commerce, etc); notes that the purpose of this strategic coordination is to tap reso ...[+++]urces by incorporating and going beyond a sectoral or single- industry approach and instead call for the employment of territorial approaches which generate new revenue at territorial level through the marketing of sets of complementary goods and services which reflect the specific characteristics of each territory; stipulates in this regard that this territorial governance shall back firmly the creation, development and improvement of work to promote farm and food products covered by existing quality schemes based on defence of intellectual property, and at the same time as promoting high quality services (which do not benefit from official European recognition), with enhanced mutual promotion of farm produce and services, and all parties demonstrating solidarity so that all goods and services from their own local area are promoted;

Moreover, in the middle of the holiday period, the government published in the Canada Gazette changes affecting the status of Hydro One revenues, Ontario's hydro company, in the equalization calculations, thus favouring Ontario.

The ESC emphasises the need to avoid any rise in domestic charges as well as the danger of the downgrading of service quality within the Member States as a consequence of decreasing revenues for banks.