Translation of "Forces extérieures au marché " (French → English) :

I am not sure to whom to attribute this notion, but I remember being told that during the days of the ``Licence Raj,'' the economy ``operated by night,'' often these large corporate entities became successful because they operated outside of their home markets and became global by force.

But I also believe that the thousands of institutions that operate to a large extent outside the commercial marketplace—the libraries, the archives, the museums, and the cultural centres, located in communities large and small right across the country—are also vitally important to the strength of our cultural life.

Aren't a lot of these problems a result of pressures on non-market decisions?

* Trade policy: Developing the external dimension of the single market, for example by promoting EU approaches to technical regulation and conformity assessment; fostering EU exporters' access to third country markets; as far as the textile and clothing industry is concerned, improvement of competitiveness factors associated to innovation, research, skills, technology and value-added as a means to adapt, in particular in the perspective of the abolition of remaining quotas in the textile and clothing sector.

Conferences in their current form contribute to overall service stability without insulating carrier pricing from external market forces.

The Commission of the European Communities, multilingual by trade, will therefore demonstrate its activities in this field at a Community stand showing how its departments operate and explaining, with the aid of the Directorates-General for External Relations, the Internal Market and Industrial Affairs, Information, Communications and Culture, the Task Force for Human Resources, Education, Training and Youth, the Translation Service and the Publications Office, the various types of support it provides to European language learning, exchange and training programmes.