Traduction de «Offre à commandes principale et régionale » (Français → Anglais) :

Mr. O'Sullivan: If I may, I think it is noteworthy that although the corps would not be able to do the work under their contract, under their right of first refusal, the corps has competed and won under the regional National Master Standing Offers — I think in all of the regions, with the exception of Quebec.

Together, the region and the Commission and World Bank experts will address the challenges that currently hamper Prešov's economic development: brain drain, high unemployment rate, especially for young people, social exclusion, mismatch between the education offer and the needs of the local labour market and a lack of cooperation in the field of innovation between the business sphere, research centres and the regional public university.

For example, for 61% of cross-border e-commerce offers, consumers were not able to place an order mainly because businesses refused to serve the consumer's country.[20] Thus, the potential of cross-border e-commerce remains partly unfulfilled, to the detriment of both businesses, in particular SMEs, and consumers.

15. Stresses that SMEs are important to local and regional development and economies in the EU and to the industrial competitiveness of the Union as a whole, and that they are its main providers of employment; given the need to ensure that SMEs benefit to a greater extent from support for research and innovation, considers that regional support for innovation should focus on SMEs, that the burden of bureaucracy on beneficiaries should be reduced and that the funding programmes should be made more flexible; stresses, in this regard, the added value of the cohesion policy in making regionally oriented SMEs in traditional business fields more inno ...[+++]vative by offering greater access to research focused on practical application, transfer of technology and innovation, development of skills, encouragement of an innovation culture and, especially, internationalisation or promotion of entrepreneurship of various types, by means of wider-ranging advisory services and easily accessible support, including in the form of ‘one-stop shop’ initiatives to encourage SMEs to consider new opportunities and make better use of the regional resources available to them; stresses too, in this regard, the potential added value of enhanced SME participation in knowledge and innovation communities (KICs);

Coming from Madeira as I do, a region in which tourism is one of the main factors in its sustainable growth, it stands to reason that I support the report, and I do primarily for the following reasons: firstly, because of the importance of tourism, at European, national and regional level, and its contribution towards economic growth, job creation and technological innovation, which in turn represents a contribution towards fulfilling the aims of the Lisbon Strategy; secondly, the development potential that it offers regions with econom ...[+++]ic difficulties and specific geographical characteristics, such as the outermost regions; thirdly, the contribution made by EU and Community measures – supporting, coordinating and complementing the actions of Member States – towards the development of the tourism sector; fourthly, still in this context, the EU’s incentive to set up the most effective structures and provide the appropriate financial resources; fifthly, the role of tourism in environmental protection, in regional planning and in preserving and revitalising cultural values, traditions, customs and natural and artistic heritage; and lastly, security concerns and the protection of the rights of the tourist as consumer.

- South Korean capacity expansion, especially in the period 1994 to 1996, has been the main reason for the continuing and growing imbalance between supply and demand, and Korean yards have great difficulties in attracting a sufficient number of orders to secure cash flow.