Traduction de «Annonce prêt à décharger » (Français → Anglais) :

M. whereas the EU is Egypt’s most important economic partner and its main source of foreign investment and development cooperation; whereas at the Task Force meeting the EU and its associated financial institutions offered a total in excess of EUR 5 billion to Egypt in grants, concessional loans and loans for the period 2012-2013; whereas the Task Force also announced a doubling of Egyptian participation in the Erasmus Mundus and Tempus programmes, aimed at bringing Egyptian students and researchers to Europe; whereas the honouring of these commitments and the speeding-up of EU support delivery are of crucial importance for Egypt;

13. Calls on the Agency to inform the discharge authority when the report to be attached to each year's budget on the unspent appropriations carried over from previous years, will be ready; reminds the Agency that this request was already made during the previous discharge procedure;

3. Welcomes the Commission’s proposals on extending the use of innovative financial instruments to strengthen the leverage of the EU budget while fully respecting the rights of the budgetary and discharge authorities; asks the Commission to improve framework conditions and access to finance for primary target groups such as SMEs (and particularly seed and early-stage companies), universities and research centres; stipulates that any SME-specific activities should function under the umbrella of the EIB group, providing this does not ...[+++]divert funds from FP7 funding; calls for further evaluation of the concept of so-called ‘soft loans’; expresses its doubts about any such loan arrangements which envisage the possibility of transforming loans into grants; asks the Commission and the EIB to implement the Risk Sharing Financial Facility (RSFF) as a key instrument to finance research and innovation projects and improve competitiveness ensuring long-term economic growth and employment in Europe;

9. Calls on the regional authorities concerned to implement a more multimodal transport policy to ensure that, in addition to motorways, more traffic goes by rail and internal waterways, to connect port areas effectively with the trans-European transport networks and to give ports more effective hinterland connections, in particular through the use of railways and inland waterways; calls, furthermore, on the Commission to make use of the 2010 mid-term review to release more resources to enable greater use to be made of intermediate ports by unloading cargoes in one or more feedering steps so as to reduce congestion in the main ports and their environs and bring the cargo as close as possible to the recipients; stresses, therefore, that it ...[+++] would be useful to diversify unloading points with a view to significantly reducing road traffic and addressing a recurrent congestion problem in the environs of the port zone; calls at the same time, during the planning of port facilities, for an in-depth evaluation of whether these unloading points, which are smaller and closer to the recipient, are nevertheless capable of handling a larger number of unloadings, partly in the light of their infrastructure and road network, so that the problem is not simply shifted to other port areas;

I want to know if the government is prepared to join with Manitoba's application to find the North Dakota State Water Commission in contempt for ignoring the North Dakota supreme court ruling that restricted the operation of the Devils Lake outlet.

Of an €11 billion package to support Ukraine announced in 2014, around € 6 billion has already been mobilised in grants and loans from the European Commission, EIB and EBRD.