Translation of "national service office " (English → French) :

The data for the European Vacancy Monitor is drawn from a wide range of sources: public employment services, temporary work agencies, online services, the EU statistics office job vacancy statistics (Labour Force Survey), national statistical offices and other relevant research.

22. Believes that the available price data are not sufficient for monitoring the internal market properly and calls on the national statistical offices and Eurostat to work together with the Commission to provide more data and to develop further the methodology for collecting average prices of comparable and representative goods and services; recalls, in this context, that national statistical offices need to validate, and to participate more fully in ...[+++] the work of gathering data on, and calculating, average prices; stresses that the provision of more transparent price data would inspire greater confidence among consumers and would show them that their everyday concerns are being addressed;

The Commission has decided to refer Ireland to the European Court of Justice over the extension, without competition, of the contractual arrangements with An Post (the national Post Office) for the provision of social welfare payment services.

These measures will include a proposal for a Regulation to establish a unitary EU patent valid throughout the EU, a proposal for a Directive on patent protection of inventions related to computer programmes, an interpretative Communication on freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for patent agents and a pilot action to support efforts by national patent offices to promote innovation.

The Return Action Programme , adopted by the Council on 28 November 2002, recommends in Chapter IV making the return of third country nationals illegally resident in a Member State as efficient as possible by sharing existing capacities for the organisation of joint flights among the Member States (n. 36) and points out the necessity of joint training measures for the officials with responsibility for return operations (n. 30); The Council adopted in 2004 a Decision defining the organisational arrangements which are appropriate for carrying out joint return operations by air, identifying in particular the tasks specific to the organisin ...[+++]g Member State, the tasks specific to the participating Member States and the common tasks; The Council, in its Conclusions adopted on 12 July 2004 on giving practical effect to the Council Decision on the organisation of joint flights , invited the European Commission and the Member States "to explore ways for the Border Management Agency to provide the necessary assistance for organising joint flights"; The FRONTEX Agency has been tasked, in the relevant Regulation, "to provide the necessary assistance for organising joint return operations of Member States" (Article 9), as well as to hold additional training courses and seminars on "subjects related to the return of third country nationals for officers of the competent national services of Member States" (Article 5) .

– "I am pleased to see that this joint action taken by OLAF, other Commission services and national customs offices succeeded in protecting citizens, legitimate businesses and the EU financial interests".