Translation of "libéralisation des marchés de terminaux " (French → English) :

Consequently, although it acknowledges that we are still seeing worrying levels of poverty and of inequalities in income, the proposals it makes are designed to exert greater pressure for the liberalisation of public markets, the creation of a single market for risk capital by 2003 and of financial services by 2005, the opening up of the electricity market by 2003 and of the gas market by 2004, pushing ahead with a second package of liberalisation in the rail sector and the commitment to reforming the labour markets.

These objectives must be achieved by harmonising standards and conditions for the provision of services, liberalising the terminal equipment, services and networks markets and adopting the necessary regulatory measures.

- having regard to the second Commission report on the state of liberalisation of the energy markets (COM(1999) 198 ), the second Commission report on harmonisation requirements for the internal market in electricity (COM(1999) 164 ), the Commission report on harmonisation requirements for the internal market for natural gas (COM(1999) 612 ) and the Commision communication on recent progress with building the internal electricity market (COM(2000) 297 - C5-0163/2000 ),

These aims are to be achieved by harmonising standards and requirements for the provision of services, opening up the terminals, services and networks markets and adopting the necessary regulations.

31. Considers that the single market in pharmaceuticals is incomplete and that the consequent market distortions are causing wide disparities in patient access to needed medicines; is therefore of the opinion that progressive liberalisation of the pharmaceutical market is needed in order to improve patient choice and access to high-quality, safe, efficacious and cost-effective medicines and to ensure that these medicines are available throughout the European Union; calls on the Commission to include in its programmes a proposal for a framework directive for completing the internal market in pharmaceuticals by introducing a gradual econ ...[+++]omic liberalisation of all sectors of the industry and to propose legislation to amend Directive 65/65/EEC on medicinal products with a view to harmonising and recasting regulatory data protection, in the light of the December 1998 European Court of Justice decision on generics;

The purpose of this Directive is to liberalise the markets in telecommunications terminal equipment.