Translation of "Soutènement par boulonnage intégral " (French → English) :

Member States should continue to improve the business environment by modernising public administrations, improving corporate governance, removing remaining barriers to the internal market, eliminating unnecessary administrative burdens and avoid unnecessary new burdens by applying smart regulation instruments, including by developing further interoperable e-government services, removing tax obstacles, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), improving their access to the Single Market in line with the ‘Small Business Act for Europe’ and the ‘Think Small First’ principle, ensuring stable and integrated financial services mark ...[+++]ets, facilitating access to finance, improving conditions for promoting access to and protecting intellectual property rights, supporting internationalisation of SMEs and promoting entrepreneurship, including female entrepreneurship.

That being said, we feel that the Structural Funds can play a relevant role in supporting integrated projects to foster social, public or cooperative housing, either for acquisition or for rent at affordable rates, with subsidised social facilities aimed at urban renewal, social cohesion and the promotion of sustainable urban development.

In order to respond to the increasing need for knowledge and dialogue on the European integration process and its development, it is important to stimulate excellence in teaching, research and reflection in this field by supporting higher education institutions specialising in the study of the European integration process, European associations in the fields of education and training and the Jean Monnet Action.

[9] These cover respectively: the development of ICTs supporting interoperable networking, process integration and sharing of resources, to enable networked businesses to build faster and more effective partnerships and alliances, to re-engineer and integrate their processes, to develop value-added products and services and to share experiences; the development of new information technologies for the optimisation of value creation processes in manufacturing and extended services; and the integration of micro-nano systems into a wider range of new intelligent products, such as intelligent textiles.

Topics often raised include: preparing for entry into the knowledge society by recognising the vital role of lifelong learning and the acquisition of skills; incorporating mobility and career pathways into discussions on working conditions; active ageing; promoting equal opportunities; taking into consideration employment and wider access to the labour market, promoting sustainable development; incorporating quality as a factor in global performance both in aspects of work organisation and in health and safety, and also worker involvement and negotiated anticipation of change.

The Fifth Framework Programme did at least incorporate very interesting key activities such as intermodality and sustainable mobility, and also maritime technologies and surface transport, under the heading of sustainable growth. Your draftsman therefore proposes bringing the research areas relating to transport together in a new priority thematic area entitled ‘Sustainable mobility and surface transport’. The purpose of the activities undertaken in this area would be to support and strengthen European mobility and surface-transport systems which are better integrated from four points of view – namely, through the integration of sustaina ...[+++]ble development, the integration of the various modes (i.e. intermodality), the integration at European level of the individual Member States’ transport systems (interoperability) and the integration of safety and security, in order to contribute to and bring about safer, more economic, more efficient, more socially relevant, more comfortable and more environmentally sound mobility and surface transport.