Translation of "Fusion sous forme de conglomérat " (French → English) :

We, therefore, recommend that the consideration of future mergers and the formation of future financial conglomerates also include a test for concentration by way of a rule of reason in the access to funds for potential new entrants and new financial service providers.

34. Calls on the Commission to propose a cluster policy and cluster networks in the form of cooperation, particularly in value chains, between connected companies, suppliers, service providers, universities and research centres which also stimulate an organic emergence of clusters in a ‘bottom-up’ manner in response to business and/or research needs; stresses the importance of establishing transnational clusters, particularly in order to integrate structurally weaker regions into the European industrial value chain, on the basis of Union-wide competition encouraging the participation of underrepresented countries/regions and ensuring th ...[+++]e know-how transfer across the research communities from all the Member States; believes this to be a crucial aspect to be integrated into regional industrial policies; notes that the Commission should also pay adequate attention to supporting existing clusters; encourages the Commission to establish resource efficiency clusters under the future green action plan for SMEs;

M. whereas the current provisions of Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) are based on the principle of technological neutrality; whereas those provisions do not yet reflect ongoing technological convergence; and whereas in particular graduated regulation, which differentiates between television programmes (including webcasting and live streaming) and audiovisual media services on demand, will become less important in its existing form ...[+++], although differently regulated information and communications services are available on one and the same device, including services which do not fall within the scope of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive but of the e-Commerce Directive or, in the case of non-European services, are not covered by any EU media regulations, which both may result in unequal competitive conditions and unacceptable discrepancies in the protection of users and raises fresh questions - regardless of media type - of content access, dissemination method and findability;

"A publication in accordance with the first subparagraph shall not be required from a company if, for a continuous period beginning at least one month before the day of the general meeting which is to decide on the common draft terms of cross-border merger, the company makes available the common draft terms of such merger on its own Internet site in full or by way of reference or hyperlink or, if it has no Internet site of its own, on any other Internet site.

"Such publication shall not be required from a company if, for a continuous period beginning at least one month before the day fixed for the general meeting which is to decide on the draft terms of merger, it makes available the draft terms of such merger on its own Internet site in full or by way of reference or hyperlink or, if it has no Internet site of its own, on any other Internet site.

With European integration advancing, banks and other financial institutions´ mergers and acquisitions (M