Translation of "service load " (English → French) :

28. Is concerned about the back-loading of negotiations in the services area and calls for their intensification at both bilateral and plurilateral level, with due regard for the interests of weak and vulnerable economies and without weakening their position by pressing them to liberalise additional services sectors; notes that the WTO is altering the structure of the method of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiations method; insists on the necessity of a timely impact assessment; welcomes the fact that the end of February 2006 deadline for the submission of plurilateral requests was met and considers this to be ...[+++]a positive sign for the further progress of the negotiations; regrets the fact that the final Declaration does not set any quantitative targets for the submission of revised offers; reiterates that essential public services, such as health, education and audiovisual services should be excluded from liberalisation;

(27) Provision should be made for transitional arrangements to enable intermodal loading units which were manufactured before the entry into force of this Directive to be placed on the market or put into service even after that date.

1. Member States may not, on grounds arising from the implementation of this Directive, prohibit, restrict or impede the placing on the market or putting into service on their territory (including transport, storing, handling and reloading) of intermodal loading units which conform to this Directive and/or, where appropriate, the relevant harmonised standards published in the Official Journal of the European Union pursuant to this Directive and which bear the CE conformity marking, as well as the indication of periodic inspection in a ...[+++]ccordance with Article 8.

(15) The new intermodal loading units may be placed on the market and put in service only if they conform to the requirements provided for in this Directive.

For example, regular maritime, rail and inland waterway services need a load factor of about 70 to 90% to stay viable.The costs of setting up a new service may be co-funded up to a maximum of 30%.

14". ancillary services" means all services necessary for access to and the operation of transmission and/or distribution networks and/or LNG facilities and/or storage facilities including load balancing and blending, but excluding facilities reserved exclusively for transmission system operators carrying out their functions.