Translation of "produit peu transformé " (French → English) :

Although Europe produces a similar number of start-up companies to the United States, European SMEs are finding it much harder to grow into large companies than their US counterparts.

39. Recalls that on 14 December 2001 the Council adopted a resolution stating that the consumption of fruit and vegetables is an effective way of promoting public health, as demonstrated by the Commission's DG SANCO in a document dating from 2002; notes that this position was officially bolstered by the Global Plan of Action for Nutrition presented by the WHO; therefore suggests that general campaigns be financed by the Commission to encourage the consumption of fruit and vegetables produced in the EU (e.g. school projects), in view of the decrease in the consumption of fruit and vegetable products, which is worrying from the point of ...[+++]view of health factors; in addition calls for the introduction of a specific promotion mechanism that may be used to promote the consumption of products in connection with which production forecasts indicate the likelihood of a crisis arising as a result of a production surplus; also calls for advertising campaigns to take account of the latest scientific findings in the field of nutrition and, accordingly, to promote the consumption of unprocessed or lightly processed fruit and vegetables, with particular emphasis on organically grown products and on regional and local varieties of fruit and vegetables in order to strengthen biodiversity;

38. Recalls that on 14 December 2001 the Council adopted a resolution stating that the consumption of fruit and vegetables is an effective way of promoting public health, as demonstrated by the Commission's DG SANCO in a document dating from 2002; notes that this position was officially bolstered by the Global Plan of Action for Nutrition presented by the WHO; therefore suggests that general campaigns be financed by DG SANCO to encourage the consumption of fruit and vegetables produced in the EU (e.g. school projects), in view of the decrease in the consumption of fruit and vegetable products, which is worrying from the point of view o ...[+++]f health factors; in addition calls for the introduction of a specific promotion mechanism that may be used to promote the consumption of products in connection with which production forecasts indicate the likelihood of a crisis arising as a result of a production surplus; also calls for advertising campaigns to take account of the latest scientific findings in the field of nutrition and, accordingly, to promote the consumption of unprocessed or lightly processed fruit and vegetables, with particular emphasis on organically grown products and on regional and local varieties of fruit and vegetables in order to strengthen biodiversity;

35. Is in favour of an increase in the processing thresholds for clementines and small fruit, to take account of the trend in production and consumption of the fresh product, since this measure is the least expensive and most environment-friendly, whilst allowing a new superior-quality product - clementine juice - to be introduced to the market, which will help to increase the Community consumption of citrus juices; notes that quality foodstuffs and fragrances - deficit products in the Union - could also be obtained;

C. whereas the fish processing industry in the European Union is a labour-intensive sector, made up largely of processes that are necessarily manual to safeguard the quality of product that the market requires, which affects some 90 000 direct jobs in the European Union, many of which are seasonal and which are mainly filled by poorly trained women,

Of the just over 10 000 products in the Combined Nomenclature, 7 000 processed products are eligible for the GSP, including the majority of industrial products and a great many agricultural and fish products.