Translation of "Abrasion au niveau d'un membre inférieur " (French → English) :

The internal market clause would allow the contracting parties, for those aspects covered by the clause, to choose the law of any Member State even where that law provides for a lower level of consumer protection than the law of the country where the consumer resides.

Where a Member State does not maintain an agreed target level of public structural expenditure during the programming period, no financial correction should be applied if the difference between the agreed target level and the level achieved is equal to or less than 3 % of the agreed target level (de minimis threshold).

What came through in those speeches was a fear that patients from Member States with a lower standard of living or a lower national health budget would clog up doctors’ surgeries in the richest countries, meaning that patients from those countries would be squeezed out.

58. Recognises that the Taliban are not a single uniform entity and that there are at least 33 top leaders, 820 mid-level/junior leaders, and 25 000 to 36 000 ‘foot soldiers’ distributed among 220 communities, some fighting for ideological and others for monetary reasons; believes, therefore, that negotiations should, from now on, be encouraged at local level between the democratically elected local government and members of the armed opposition ‘who renounce violence, have no links to international terrorist organisations, respect the Constitution and are willing to join in building a peaceful Afghanistan’, in accordance with paragraph ...[+++]s 13 and 14 of the Kabul communiqué of 20 July 2010;

59. Recognises that the Taliban are not a single uniform entity and that there are at least 33 top leaders, 820 mid-level/junior leaders, and 25 000 to 36 000 ‘foot soldiers’ distributed among 220 communities, some fighting for ideological and others for monetary reasons; believes, therefore, that negotiations should, from now on, be encouraged at local level between the democratically elected local government and members of the armed opposition ‘who renounce violence, have no links to international terrorist organisations, respect the Constitution and are willing to join in building a peaceful Afghanistan’, in accordance with paragraph ...[+++]s 13 and 14 of the Kabul communiqué of 20 July 2010;

In such cases, Member States may apply a level of taxation below the minimum level set out in this Directive.