Translation of "coût de viabilisation " (French → English) :

69. Regrets, however, that the Belgian authorities have not - until now - honoured the agreement on the land cost estimated at EUR 43 million and that they dispute the total amount to be reimbursed to Parliament for the land development costs of the site for the D4-D5 buildings, estimated by Parliament's services at EUR 30,8 million;

Because now what you've done is you've taken an area that was unserviced, that wasn't economical to service, that the market wouldn't support and isn't a good environmental choice, and you've had the big hand of provincial and federal governments lower the cost of it using federal and provincial spending undermine to make it equally or less expensive to develop on that kind of land.

68. Emphasises that the Belgian Government, most recently in a letter from Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt of 28 September 2004, guaranteed that the land and the land development costs would be reimbursed to Parliament, and that this is the standard procedure also applying to the other European institutions;

68. Emphasises that the Belgian Government, most recently in a letter from Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt of 28 September 2004, guaranteed that the land and the land development costs would be reimbursed to Parliament, and that this is the standard procedure also applying to the other European institutions;

Total cost of the Integrated Development Operation is approximately Pounds 309 M., within which expenditure by the public sector is estimated at Pounds 259 M. and by the private sector at Pounds 50 M. The Programme has 6 prime and inter-related objectives : - to diversify the economy of the Area by fostering new enterprise, the growth of existing businesses and by attracting new industry, - to ensure the provision of sufficient serviced industrial sites and premises, - to develop training and re-training programmes to provide a flexible and appropriately-skilled workforce to meet the demands of business, and to encourage the unemployed to overcome disadvanta ...[+++]ge by training and by increased self confidence, - to improve the internal communications and their links with the national networks so as to adapt them to the diverse and changing needs of the Area's economy, - to contribute towards the development of tourism in the Area; - to improve the quality of the environment through the removal of derelict premises, sites and pollution/.

Examples include the Oakham Business Park in Mansfield which provides 18.5 hectares of serviced industrial sites at a cost of £2.6M to which the European Regional Development Fund has contributed £873,000.