Translation of "niveau standard du service " (French → English) :

Since the objectives of this Directive, namely achieving an internal market of Community postal services, ensuring a common level of universal services for all users and setting harmonised principles for the regulation of postal services, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale and effects, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

All families in Canada should be able to expect a standard level of child care, regardless of where they live, in the same way that all Canadians expect a standard level of health care and education.

Romania: EUR 29.5 million for upgrading of drink water supply services

The Commission should regularly publish a report analysing measures taken at national level to achieve public service objectives and comparing their effectiveness, with a view to making recommendations as regards measures to be taken at national level to achieve high public service standards.

23. SUPPORTS the recommendations in the report from the high level process of reflection on patient mobility and health care developments in the European Union inviting the Commission to consider the development of a permanent mechanism at the level of the European Union to support European cooperation in the field of health care and to consider the impact of the European Union on health systems and NOTES the Commission Decision of 20 April 2004 setting up a High Level Group on Health Services and Medical Care as a welcome immediate step towards taking those recommendations forward.

The market can sometimes satisfy a demand which is not necessarily met by the monopolies, and experience shows that, in a competitive environment, the additional costs entailed in maintaining a reasonable level of public services can be covered. It must be said that, contrary to a widespread notion, there has never been any dispute between the Member States and the Commission or the Court of Justice as to the definition of "services of general economic interest", the concept used, in the Treaty (Article 90(2)) which roughly correspond ...[+++]s to that of public service.