Translation of "Marché à faible progression " (French → English) :

3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning detailed rules on the types of procurement procedure, joint procurement, low value contracts and payment against invoices.

Furthermore, in 2006, direct taxes, especially those related to profits, yielded stronger revenues than economic developments would have suggested.

Low yield spreads vis-à-vis the euro area indicate that the residual country risk priced in by markets is limited.

Where the implementation of actions supported under the Lifelong Learning Programme requires the beneficiary to have recourse to procurement procedures, the procedures for low-value contracts set out in Article 129 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2342/2002 shall apply.

What is considered to be a ‘low combined market share’ depends on the type of agreement in question and can be inferred from the ‘safe harbour’ thresholds set out in various chapters of these guidelines and, more generally, from the Commission Notice on agreements of minor importance which do not appreciably restrict competition under Article 81(1) of the Treaty establishing the European Community (de minimis) (32) (‘the De Minimis Notice’). If one of just two parties has only an insignificant market share and if it does not possess important resources, even a high combined market share normally cannot be seen as indicating a likely rest ...[+++]rictive effect on competition in the market (33).

In each case, they had low growth of productivity, this increasing on average by only ½% a year over the period -- only slightly over a third of the EU average -- as well as low growth of employment (just over ½% a year as against an EU average of almost 1½% a year).