Traduction de «Secteur Finances et controlling » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Points out that male-dominated sectors, such as construction and manufacturing, were the first to be hit by the crisis but that the crisis has since spread to more gender-mixed sectors, thus leading to greater female unemployment; stresses that pay has declined most in female-dominated service sectors and in sectors funded by State budgets where most employees are women, and, consequently, women receive smaller pensions, which results in a higher level of poverty among elderly women;

11. Points out that the continuation of the preparatory action for maritime policy should not work to the detriment of funding for monitoring of the common fisheries policy, given that improving monitoring is a political priority; takes the view that funding for a future integrated maritime policy should come from all directorates-general and policy areas involved;

in the pursuit of its mission to ‘ensure the safety of the food chain and the quality of foods with a view to protecting human, animal and plant health’, the AFSCA is acting not as a private operator but as a public authority and that, consequently, it is not in receipt of State aid; there is no economic bias in favour of economic operators covered by Agency activities financed by fees and that, consequently, they are not in receipt of aid; as regards the financing of general random checks by fixed contributions, the operators receive no specific economic advantage and, consequently, no aid, given the compulsory nature of the checks an ...[+++]d the fact that they cannot be invoiced directly to an individual company as they aim to ensure that the entire food chain is monitored (they benefit all operators and aim to protect health and food safety in Belgium); using contributions to finance part of the cost of BSE tests and other checks linked directly to the production and placing on the market of certain products is a form of State aid which complies with the Guidelines on State aids linked to BSE tests; the actual financing mechanism contains no specific provisions which would be contrary to other provisions of the Treaty, and the parameters for distributing the sum of contributions among operators in the various sectors are objective and fair criteria which do not lead to discriminatory treatment as regards the origin of the products.

Will fees be charged to business operators to finance official controls?

ensuring that other sectors contribute to the financing of official controls by extending the list of activities referred to in Annex IV, section A and in Annex V, section A, and taking into account in particular the impact of the Community feed and food hygiene legislation after its adoption;

It emerged from that discussion that the major issues on which discussion should be continued in future were the following: - the conformity of the Commission proposals with the undertakings by the Council and the Commission at the joint jumbo Council meeting in September 1993; - the fact that the proposals did not include = a number of products (strawberries, melons, nuts, etc.) and = reform of the processed citrus fruit sector; - reduction of Community aid without compensation or accompanying measures; - co-funding of operations by the Community, the Member States and producers; - criteria governing recognition, the objectives and ...[+++]obligations of producer organizations; - choice between the existing Community standards and adoption of the standards established by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE/UN); - compatibility between the proposed measures concerning inter-branch organizations and agreements and observance of the principles of free movement and competition; - arrangements to be adopted for processed tomatoes; - tighter controls and their financing.