Translation of "Temps d'attente de tonalité d'invitation à transmettre " (French → English) :

79. Regrets that due to time constraints it is not able to give the Council's recommendation the attention it deserves, and invites the Commission to forward - and the Council to adopt - the following proposal for modification of Article 145(1) of the Financial Regulation:"

(11) In the context of the analysis conducted by the Commission with a view to ascertaining the need for specific measures in the field of financial services, the Commission invited all the interested parties to transmit their comments, notably in connection with the preparation of its Green Paper entitled "Financial Services - Meeting Consumers' Expectations".

Honourable senators, I thank you for your time and your attention, and I invite you to support both my subamendment and Senator Doody's amendment.

III. INVITES THE MEMBER STATES to: 1. cooperate with the Commission by continuing to provide it with the available information on existing programmes and policies in the Member States in support of SMEs; 2. forward to the Commission any available additional information necessary for assessing the impact of Community programmes in favour of SMEs which are implemented at national and local level, including available information broken down by size of enterprise; 3. encourage SME involvement in both Community and national measures, particularly in the areas of the Structural Funds, research and technological development, vocational train ...[+++]ing, international cooperation, the information society, energy and the environment; 4. promote the development of a spirit of enterprise, in particular in the context of concerted action under the Integrated Programme, by improving the planned framework conditions for the establishment of new enterprises, in particular through: - reducing the administrative burden for entrepreneurs and at the same time simplifying the rules in force; - ensuring that the training system takes account of the need to motivate young people, keep them informed and prepare them for setting up their own enterprises.

To some delegations it is decisive that the tax will only apply above a certain level of emissions related to the EC average; NOTES the progress made in the Ad Hoc Working Party on the Commission's proposal for a carbon/energy tax, and that a decision on a fiscal instrument of this nature will need inter alia to define the base for the calculation of the tax; PLEDGES its commitment to the rapid adoption of the proposals for the SAVE directive and ALTENER programme of the Community, and URGES the European Parliament to forward its opinion on these proposals before the meeting of the Council (Energy) in June 1993; STRESSES the importance of joint efforts and effective measures on the part of industrialized countries to combat climate chang ...[+++]e and therefore AGREES that the Community will also rapidly take an initiative in the OECD framework in order to promote the use of fiscal instruments with a view to an effective and coordinated effort to reduce CO2 emissions, consistent with the Community's own strategy; that at the same time it will continue a constructive dialogue with its other trading partners, energy producers and developing countries; WELCOMES in this context the US administration's proposal for new energy taxes as an important contribution which, together with the tax initiatives of the other OECD countries in this field, helps to meet the Community's demand that the effects on competitiveness of any corresponding tax initiative by the Community be reduced; URGES the Presidency to establish a basis for a decision on a fiscal instrument with a view to accelerating the work in the Council (ECOFIN).

This situation may lead to delays in achieving sustainable development; 4. Draws attention to the important role which may be played in this context by the future Commission communication on Community water policy and the Commission communication of 29 May 1995 on the wise use and conservation of wetlands; 5. Considers that the 3-year demonstration programme announced in the Commission's communication, which will be centred on the crucial role of the use of knowledge and of the functioning of coordination mechanisms, can play an important part in establ ...[+++]ishing a strategy for the integrated management of coastal zones; 6. Emphasizes that, in order to ensure that the concept of sustainable development is incorporated in policy for coastal zones and that maximum benefit is obtained from the programme, the latter will have to give appropriate consideration to the following needs: - to be based on the most advanced experiments in the integrated management of coastal zones in the countries of the Union; - without prejudice to an overall approach, to take account of the economic, social and environmental diversity of situations of the European coastline; - to take into account the ecological wealth and sensitivity of the coastline; - to create awareness among the numerous players who influence coastal development or are otherwise involved; - to give great importance to the dissemination of the results; - to identify obstacles to the sustainable development of coastal zones; 7. Welcomes the multidisciplinary approach, involving coordination of European policies, adopted by the Commission in preparing the communication and particularly welcomes the desire to take advantage of existing financial instruments when carrying out the programme without making any changes to their criteria or rules of operation; 8. Notes the Commission's commitment to the organization of the work envisaged by it, approves its timetable and requests it to begin as soon as possible; 9. Under ...