Traduction de «industry sector procurement outlook conference » (Anglais → Français) :

24. Welcomes the recent US National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, which does not contain "Buy American" provisions for the procurement of refuelling tankers for the US Air Force; recognises, however, that it remains difficult for European defence firms to penetrate the United States defence market and to acquire United States defence-related technology due to the absence of a genuine transatlantic "two-way street" in the defence industrial sector ...[+++]; believes, therefore, that the European Defence Agency should recommend that national defence procurement agencies in the EU make more European purchases in order to strategically reinforce the European defence industrial and technological base in certain sectors and in order to rebalance transatlantic industrial cooperation in the defence sector;

24. Welcomes the recent US National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, which does not contain "Buy American" provisions for the procurement of refuelling tankers for the US Air Force; recognises, however, that it remains difficult for European defence firms to penetrate the United States defence market and to acquire United States defence-related technology due to the absence of a genuine transatlantic "two-way street" in the defence industrial sector ...[+++]; believes, therefore, that the European Defence Agency should recommend that national defence procurement agencies in the EU make more European purchases in order to strategically reinforce the European defence industrial and technological base in certain sectors and in order to rebalance transatlantic industrial cooperation in the defence sector;

24. Welcomes the recent US National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, which does not contain “Buy American” provisions for the procurement of refuelling tankers for the US Air Force; recognises, however, that it remains difficult for European defence firms to penetrate the United States defence market and to acquire United States defence-related technology due to the absence of a genuine transatlantic “two-way street” in the defence industrial sector ...[+++]; believes, therefore, that the European Defence Agency should recommend that national defence procurement agencies in the EU make more European purchases in order to strategically reinforce the European defence industrial and technological base in certain sectors and in order to rebalance transatlantic industrial cooperation in the defence sector;

Furthermore, since the development of the European defence industry sector will involve greater mutual dependency in the supply of defence goods and equipment, it will be necessary to envisage procuring supplies not just nationally, but under programmes developed either within the EU or abroad.

In some industry sectors, where large companies are setting up e-marketplaces to procure goods and services, SMEs and their suppliers may well be forced to participate in them in order to stay in business.

13. Calls on the Commission to recognise and take into account that, within the context of the e-Europe initiative, the EU FB-IND are among the key industrial sectors which are particularly well-positioned to use opportunities provided by information technology for their forest management, wood procurement, industrial processes, products and trading methods;