Traduction de «Confédération des entreprises européennes » (Français → Anglais) :

59. Considers that the restriction of EU businesses’ access to digital markets and online consumers through, among other things, mass state censorship or restricted market access for European online service providers in third countries constitutes a trade barrier; calls on the Commission and the Council to include a safeguard mechanism in all future trade agreements, especially those which contain provisions affecting online services and online communities of users who share information, in order to ensure that EU ICT companies are not required by third parties to restrict website access, remove user-generated content or provide persona ...[+++]l information, such as personal IP addresses, in ways that contravene fundamental rights and freedoms; calls, additionally, on the Council and the Commission to develop a strategy for challenging measures by third countries which restrict EU companies’ access to global online markets;

the institutions and bodies to which they belong, which appoint 11 members (1 representative per organisation: European Parliament, Council, European Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Central Bank, Statistical Programme Committee [2 representatives], Confederation of European Business, European Trade Union Confederation, European Association of Craft Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, European Data Prot ...[+++]ection Supervisor. The Director-General of Eurostat is an ex officio member, without a voting right).

the institutions and bodies to which they belong, which appoint 11 members (1 representative per organisation: European Parliament, Council, European Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Central Bank, Statistical Programme Committee [2 representatives], Confederation of European Business, European Trade Union Confederation, European Association of Craft Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, European Data Prot ...[+++]ection Supervisor. The Director-General of Eurostat is an ex officio member, without a voting right).

one member representing the Confederation of European Business (BUSINESSEUROPE),

We therefore propose that these appropriations be transferred to budget line 02 02 03 (‘Programme for enterprise and entrepreneurship, particularly for SMEs’), where the funds could be of direct use to European businesses.

Please allow me to refer to an extract from the recent document by UNICE, the Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations of Europe. The document concerns the issue of liberating the workforce of Europe and includes the opinions of companies on European social policy beyond 2000. It states that European companies regard themselves as an integral part of society which means that they operate in a socially responsible way.