Translation of "train formation facility " (English → French) :

"freight corridor" shall mean all of the railway lines created on the territory of Member States and, where necessary, third European countries linking two or more strategic terminals, including a principal axis, alternative routes and paths linking them, and railway infrastructure and its equipment in the freight terminals, marshalling yards and train formation facilities, as well as branch lines to the latter, including all rail related services as set out in Annex II to Directive 2001/14/EC ;

(a) "freight corridor" shall mean all of the railway lines created on the territory of Member States and, where necessary, third European countries linking one or more strategic terminals to one or more other strategic terminals including a principal axis, alternative routes and paths linking them, and railway infrastructure and its equipment in the freight terminals, marshalling yards and train formation facilities, and branch lines to the latter;

(a) "freight corridor" shall mean all of the railway lines created on the territory of Member States and, where necessary, third European countries linking two or more strategic terminals, including a principal axis, alternative routes and paths linking them, and railway infrastructure and its equipment in the freight terminals, marshalling yards and train formation facilities, as well as branch lines to the latter, including all rail related services as mentioned in Annex II to Directive 2001/14/EC;

In particular, the second Observatory's report underlines a number of useful elements, namely as regards: - an indication to the existence of different problems, attitudes and behaviour within the SME sector, eventually calling for adoption of differentiated policy approaches aiming at micro enterprises on the one hand, and small and medium enterprises on the other hand; - a differentiated contribution of SMEs to employment as only micro firms, although severely hit by the recession, have been able to secure some net job creation in 1990-93, these years being characterised by an important reduction in the number of both medium-sized and large enterprises as well as in their employment levels; - the importance to provide appr ...[+++]opriate information and counselling, as well as adequate formation and training facilities to smaller and newly created enterprises; - the key role played by SMEs in both product and process innovation and their effectiveness in bringing those innovations to the market; - the importance of the craft trades, which appear particularly capable of absorbing the low skilled unemployed and can act as a breeding place of qualified personnel for non-craft-sectors; - the relevance of Community efforts to provide assistance to enterprises and to promote economic development through transborder and transnational cooperation, namely by means of the INTERREG initiative and other interventions of the Structural Funds; - a tendency towards convergence across the Member States in many elements of the business environment, even if differences in legislation and technical standards as well as difficulties in gaining access to information can still act as major residual barriers to international activities by SMEs; - the need to improve SMEs information on the functioning of the Internal Market and new opportunities opened to them, as well as to assist SMEs in their efforts to anticipate and adapt to industrial change and current mutations in their business ...