Translation of "To procure some result in the field industry " (English → French) :

Whatever solutions may come as a result of our hearings we hope to be able to present to the department, and hopefully we can make some recommendations on what this industry may eventually result in.

There has been some progress in the field of enterprise and industrial policy.

1. The Community's public procurement rules, in particular open access and fair competition throughout the industrial supply chain, tendering on the basis of the provision of transparent and timely information, clear communication of the applicable procurement rules, selection criteria and any other relevant information allowing a level-playing field for all potential bidders, shall apply to the deployment phase of the Galileo prog ...[+++]ramme without prejudice to measures required to protect the essential interests of the security of the European Union or public security or to comply with European Union export control requirements.

Its purpose is to develop a permanent dialogue on industrial policy issues of common interest between some of the most prominent industry leaders of Japan and the EU, in order to discuss jointly how to address competitiveness challenges faced by industry, to make relevant recommandations to public authorities on (de)regulation measures and industrial policy actions likely to improve the competitiveness of both sides' industries, and to identify fields where EU-Japan indu ...[+++]strial cooperation should be developed.

By the end of the month, the Commission will take similar decisions in some of the other fields covered by the Fourth Framework Programme (1994-1998): industrial and materials technologies, biotechnology, biomedicine and health, agriculture and fisheries, and energy.

It: - calls on Member States to speed up the full implementation of the Directives concerning the internal market, in particular in the public procurement, investment services and insurance fields; - asks the Council to expedite proceedings for the adoption of the Statute for a European company and the legal framework for biotechnological inventions and stresses the importance of the recent agreements within the Council on the internal electricity market and telecommunications and calls upon the Council to go further in the direction of the greater liberalisation in those se ...[+++]ctors; - calls on the Commission to submit the Council before the end of the year the initial results of its initiative on practical simplification measures (SLIM); - requests the Council to adopt the new action plan for small and medium- sized enterprises (SME) before the end of 1996 to reinforce the potential for their further development so that they can benefit fully from the internal market and thus make a more effective contribution to the creation of jobs; - calls on the Commission to draw up an action plan concerning the measures to be taken with regard to innovation; - requests the Council to submit to it, before the European Council in Dublin, a report on the development of tax systems within the Union, taking account of the need to create a tax environment that stimulates enterprise and the creation of jobs and promote a more efficient environmental policy.