Traduction de «Urban district » (Anglais → Français) :

2. Stresses that in a globalised world the single market has to ensure the best possible business environment for enterprises, and to take the specific nature and diversity of SMEs into account in order to foster job creation, innovation, entrepreneurial values, improvement of the profile of the entrepreneur and support for the business spirit and self-employment in all EU regions, including rural areas; welcomes, therefore, the planned assessment of the ‘Small Business Act’ and the reinforcement of the ‘Think Small First’ principle; stresses the role regional policy can play in the further integration of the Single Market and calls on Commission and Member States to make EU funds more easily accessible, especially to SMEs as they are the ...[+++] most flexible component of Europe’s economy; draws attention to the importance of local businesses for social ties, employment and dynamism in disadvantaged areas, particularly urban districts facing difficulties or sparsely populated areas; calls for them to receive appropriate support under the Union’s regional policy;

33. Draws attention to the importance of local businesses for social ties, employment and dynamism in disadvantaged areas, particularly urban districts facing difficulties or sparsely populated areas; calls for them to receive appropriate support under the Union’s regional policy;

33. Draws attention to the importance of local businesses for social ties, employment and dynamism in disadvantaged areas, particularly urban districts facing difficulties or sparsely populated areas; calls for them to receive appropriate support under the Union's regional policy;

Urbact was presented jointly by all the Member States (except Luxembourg) and represents the last programme for implementation of the Urban II Initiative, with 70 programmes in declining towns and urban districts already having been approved during 2001.

It contributed to the launch of the URBAN initiative [65], of the Community Regional Development Fund, which devoted approximately one billion Euro for the sustainable development of urban districts facing severe social, environmental and economic problems.

The range of Galileo services is designed to meet practical objectives and expectations, from improving the coverage of open-access services in urban environments (to cover 95% of urban districts compared with the 50% currently covered by GPS alone) which will benefit the 160 million private vehicles in Europe, or enabling the use of satellite navigation applications "indoors", in buildings and even in tunnels, or indeed mobile telephone services based on identifying the caller's position.