Translation of "détermination des moyennes " (French → English) :

27. Draws attention to the cost-inflating procedure of the annual salary adjustment method for local staff in Union delegations; believes that that methodology can be made more efficient and cost-effective; asks the EEAS to use calculation methods based on independent and objective selection of reference organisations in the same or similar locations; suggests that a locally operating United Nations' agency be added as a fixed component and that two Member State embassies and two local employers be included - with, in each case, one to be determined by the employee and one by the employer - in order to obtain an appropriate average; ...[+++]urges that a mechanism be established to relieve the Union ambassador of his responsibility for salary negotiations with local staff and for the reference organisations to be chosen for a period of five years;

24. Highlights the crucial economic and social importance of a strong, stable middle class; stresses the need to involve the middle class more closely in the political process, thus promoting inclusive growth;

31. Takes the view that GDP must be retained as the key criterion in the definition of areas eligible for maximum support (those with a per capita GDP below 75% of the EU average) and, where appropriate, cohesion countries (per capita GNI below 90% of the EU average); considers that the competent national and regional authorities should be given scope for the use – at the appropriate decision-making level, for each objective and in a manner reflecting geographical concentrations – of additional indicators, to be agreed in the develop ...[+++]ment and investment partnership contracts, with which to assess the social, economic, environmental, demographic and geographical challenges which they face, and that their use for territorial targeting should be encouraged by under the Structural Fund Regulations where this will ensure greater added value and concentration for EU funds;

31. Takes the view that GDP must be retained as the key criterion in the definition of areas eligible for maximum support (those with a per capita GDP below 75% of the EU average) and, where appropriate, cohesion countries (per capita GNI below 90% of the EU average); considers that the competent national and regional authorities should be given scope for the use – at the appropriate decision-making level, for each objective and in a manner reflecting geographical concentrations – of additional indicators, to be agreed in the develop ...[+++]ment and investment partnership contracts, with which to assess the social, economic, environmental, demographic and geographical challenges which they face;

The "framework" Regulation establishes a biologically sensitive area to the south-west of Ireland to replace the former "Irish Box" (which stretched 50 miles around the Irish coast), a reference period (1998-2002) for drawing up the annual average fishing effort by vessels, a 100-mile protection zone for the outermost regions, a kilowatt-day system to calculate the fleet's fishing effort and a minimum size for vessels covered by the Regulation depending on the area (10 metres for biologically sensitive areas, 15 metres for other areas).

For the evaluation of the gaseous emissions, the chart reading for a minimum of the last 120 s of each mode shall be averaged, and the average concentrations (conc ) of HC, CO, NOx and CO2 during each mode shall be determined from the average chart readings and the corresponding calibration data.