Traduction de «supplier development sector campaign » (Anglais → Français) :

6. Emphasises that the production and finishing of vehicles as an industrial product are at the end of a value chain of European supplier industries, including small and medium-sized component suppliers, and that these upstream industries play an important role in the development of the automotive industry and are confronted by the same European-level and global challenges; points out that the European automotive suppliers, including SMEs, are often key innovators, thereby stimulating the development of European ...[+++]vehicles of the future, and also create an important market for spare parts; regrets the difficulties experienced by some SMEs in the supply sector in making use of Union programmes and funding, and calls for easier access, also through the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) programme;

· The revised GPA includes new provisions for developing countries wishing to join the GPA. Developing countries that have started their accession process to the Agreement may benefit from a set of transitional measures: They include: i) price preferences; (ii) offsets; (iii) phased-in addition of specific entities and sectors; and (iv) thresholds that are initially set higher than their permanent level. Provision has also been introduced for delaying the application of any specific obligation contained in the GPA, other than the r ...[+++]equirement to provide equivalent treatment to the goods, services and suppliers of all other Parties to the Agreement, for a period of five years following accession to the Agreement for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) or up to three years for other developing countries. This period can be further extended;

Question No. 873 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and recovery: (a) what is the current value of the government’s infrastructure including, but not limited to, energy, social, tourism, and transportation infrastructure, and what are the government’s contingency liabilities; (b) what percentage of the national budget is devoted to DRR, (i) what stand alone DRR investments has the government made in each of its budgets since 2006, (ii) what percentage of each budget has been allocated to hazard proofing sectoral development investments and, if such allocations have been made, (iii) what ...[+++] amount has the government invested by sector, broken down by budget; (c) what monies have been provided for a national policy and legal framework with decentralised responsibilities, (i) what monies are required, (ii) what are the operational requirements, (iii) what human resources are required; (d) what dedicated resources are available to implement DRR plans and activities, (i) what monies are required, (iii) what are the operational requirements, (iii) what human resources are required; (e) what monies have been allocated to the national multi-sectoral platform; (f) what are the existing resources in regards to systems that monitor, archive and disseminate data on key hazards and vulnerabilities, (i) what monies are required, (ii) what are the operational requirements, (iii) what human resources are required; (g) what would be required to put in place a national public alerting system that would warn Canadians of imminent or unfolding threats to life in place in terms of (i) financial resources, (ii) personnel resources; (h) what resources are allocated to national risk assessments, (i) what monies are required, (ii) what are the operational requirements, (iii) what human resources are required; (i) what resources are allocated to local risk assessments, (i) what monies are required, (ii) what are the operational requirements, (iii) what huma ...

During the course of its work, the Assembly welcomed, among others, successive presidencies of the EU Council, Commissioners Peter Mandelson and Louis Michel, Mr Amadou Toumani Touré, President of the Republic of Mali, Mr Jack McConnell, First Minister of Scotland, Mr George Reid, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, Ms Eveline Herfkens, the UN Secretary-General’s Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign, and Mr Roger Marie Rafanomezantsoa, Minister of Industry, Trade and Private Sector Development of Madagascar, President-in-Office of the ACP Council.

39. Restates that major efforts should be undertaken by the Commission and Member State governments at national, regional and local level to use the opportunities provided by the revision of the public procurement Directives in 2004 to support CSR by promoting social and environmental criteria amongst potential suppliers, while recognising the need to avoid imposing additional administrative burdens on small enterprises, which might dissuade them from tendering, and to disqualify companies where necessary including in instances of corruption; calls on the Commission, the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to apply strict social and environmental criteria to all grants and loans allocated to pr ...[+++]ivate sector companies, backed by clear complaints mechanisms, building on the example linking public procurement and compliance with the ILO Core Conventions and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in the Netherlands and with the SA8000 CSR standard by several Italian provinces; recalls that Member States should take steps to ensure that any export credit guarantees comply with the highest environmental and social criteria and should not be used for projects that run counter to agreed EU policy goals concerning, for example, energy or armaments;

The resources allocated to the programme are concentrated on a limited number of priorities: . improving the production infrastructure and organization of small businesses, in particular with regard to the adoption of a general strategy on quality and of quality certification (this kind of scheme is planned especially in regions lagging behind in their development - Objective 1 regions); . promoting and introducing technological innovations (for example the introduction of technologies to ensure safety and workers' health in Piedmont and support for technology transfer projects in Lombardy); . developing cooperation among businesses and between research centres (for example the development of CAD-CAM production systems in Sardinia and sup ...[+++]port for research and innovation projects in Umbria); . developing the networks among suppliers of services to small businesses and between large companies and their subcontractors in the small- business sector (in particular, the creation of a network for sharing experience with RD in the Veneto, the promotion of communications between service suppliers and small businesses in Emilia Romagna, the strengthening of links between large companies and their subcontractors in the small-business sector in Tuscany); . facilitating access by small businesses to new markets, including public procurement contracts, within the single market and in non- Community countries (for example, the promotion of contacts between firms in Basilicata and Calabria and international partners); . reinforcing entrepreneurial skills in Objective 1 regions.