Translation of "Jour d'ouverture du marché " (French → English) :

opening up of public procurement | opening up of public procurement to competition

market opening | opening-up of the market

introduction of competition

market openness [ openness of market ]

Advisory committee on the opening-up of public procurement

award of contract [ automatic public tendering | award notice | award procedure ]

barrels per stream day | BSD | BPSD | B/SD | B. P.S.D.

current rate of exchange | quotation of the day | current market value | current market price | day's rate

[59] To date the milestones on the way to opening up the electricity and natural gas markets to competition have been five Directives covering price transparency (1990), the transit of electricity and gas through grids (1990 and 1991), the internal market in electricity (1996) and the internal market in natural gas (1998).

- present our views on how to develop the mutual supportiveness of internal and external market opening, in particular in goods and services regulations.

2. Notes the competition between different social systems resulting from the opening up of the world market; notes a rise in the level of informal work in urban areas as well as violations of the principles of decent work despite the existence of a legislative framework governing employment conditions; notes that, although the opening up of the Chinese economy has brought major benefits such as better access to the employment market and a fall in rural unemployment, not all segments of the Chinese population have equally benefited from the economic growth and there are large disparities emerging between urban and rural parts of the cou ...[+++]ntry; points out that inequalities in incomes, access to employment, social welfare, health and education between the urban and rural populations constitute a significant cohesion policy challenge for China;

3. Asks the Commission, therefore, to provide data regarding the level of openness of public procurement and to ensure reciprocity with other industrialised countries and major emerging economies; invites the Commission to look into new ways of improving access for European enterprises to public procurement markets outside the EU, in order to ensure a level playing-field for both European and foreign enterprises competing for the award of public contracts; proposes, in more general terms, that future trade agreements negotiated by the Union should incorporate a chapter on sustainable development, drawing on the principles of corporate ...[+++]social responsibility as defined by the 2010 update of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises;