Translation of "gestion des services ti " (French → English) :

12. Recalls that the CoR and the EESC, through their joint services, manage certain activities in common (translation, printing, buildings, security, library, procurement, catering, ushers, medical service, cars and drivers, IT, etc.) and that their cooperation agreement has recently been renewed for 6 months (with an option to extend it for a further 6 months) pending a decision on whether such cooperation should continue in future;

12. Recalls that the CoR and the EESC, through their joint services, manage certain activities in common (translation, printing, buildings, security, library, procurement, catering, ushers, medical service, cars and drivers, security, IT etc) and that their cooperation agreement has recently been renewed for 6 months (with an option to extend it for a further 6 months) pending a decision on whether such cooperation should continue in future;

12. Recalls that the CoR and the EESC, through their joint services, manage certain activities in common (translation, printing, buildings, security, library, procurement, catering, ushers, medical service, cars and drivers, IT, etc.) and that their cooperation agreement has recently been renewed for 6 months (with an option to extend it for a further 6 months) pending a decision on whether such cooperation should continue in future;

The services covered by this Directive concern a wide variety of ever-changing activities, including business services such as management consultancy, certification and testing; facilities management, including office maintenance; advertising; recruitment services; and the services of commercial agents.

25. Points out that local authorities must remain free to choose the method of managing the services of general interest for which they are responsible pursuant to the provisions of their respective Member States, and that such discretion includes the right to use direct management or to delegate the management of those services; stresses, however, that where a local authority decides to delegate the management of the services of general interest for which it is responsible, it must be required to use systematic competitive tendering, in accordance with Community law; stresses also that the entities which manage services of general int ...[+++]erest under a direct management arrangement should not be in a position to take over external markets, outside their territorial area of activity, but this must not prevent inter-communality;

32. Points out that the "Innovation" has to follow environmentally and socially sustainable paths, based on "greening" the IT-infrastructures, products and services, and demanding social innovations as "sustainable lifestyles" and social inclusion of the 'information poor"; calls therefore on the Member States to ensure universal access to the new service and not just exclusively to those who have the economic power to benefit;