Translation of "Loi sur l'entreprise de télécommunications " (French → English) :

Additionally, as required by law, company XY/companies XY has/have protection in place to refund your payments and, where transport is included in the package, to ensure your repatriation in the event that it becomes/they become insolvent.

26. Believes also that there should be a focus on the need to simplify the VAT system for companies throughout Europe; welcomes, in this connection, the new measures designed to facilitate electronic invoicing and the special provisions for small companies, which came into force in 2013, and looks forward to the introduction of the standard VAT declaration form for the entire EU; hopes that the one-stop shop for e-services and telecoms businesses, which will become operational in 2015, will have a real effect in promoting compliance by simplifying VAT procedures for these businesses;

26. Believes also that there should be a focus on the need to simplify the VAT system for companies throughout Europe; welcomes, in this connection, the new measures designed to facilitate electronic invoicing and the special provisions for small companies, which came into force in 2013, and looks forward to the introduction of the standard VAT declaration form for the entire EU; hopes that the one-stop shop for e-services and telecoms businesses, which will become operational in 2015, will have a real effect in promoting compliance by simplifying VAT procedures for these businesses;

It is also a shame that because of pressure from the large telecommunications companies, access to major telecommunications infrastructures is not provided to new, innovative undertakings and there has to be a duplication of infrastructure.

27. Notes that the transatlantic telecommunication market is still hampered by regulatory barriers and incompatible standards which translate into a situation whereby, despite the fact that nine out of the ten biggest telecom companies in the world are based in the EU or the US, no US or European company is operating on both continents to any significant extent;

52. Considers it imperative, in the interests of successful industrial adjustment in order to create or maintain a climate conducive to investment, that five requirements should be met: adequate financing of programmes, efficient capital markets, priority to new technologically advanced enterprises over the partially obsolete industrial complexes, equal competitive conditions for all businesses, irrespective of whether they are publicly or privately owned, and steps to combat corruption; however, the PHARE programme, partly due to its current management and priorities, has not yet been an overwhelming success; calls upon the Commission ...[+++] to submit to the European Parliament a separate "progress report" concentrating on the following chapters of negotiation: industrial policy, small- and medium-sized undertakings, telecommunications, the audiovisual sector and media and internet related industries, by analysing the scale of restructuring and the cost of financing required, and possible derogations from competition rules, e.g. for public-service broadcasting, if they are deemed necessary;