Translation of "projet d'achat " (French → English) :

operating costs directly relating to the cultural project or activity, such as rent or lease of real estate and cultural venues, travel expenses, materials and supplies directly related to the cultural project or activity, architectural structures for exhibitions and stage sets, loan, lease and depreciation of tools, software and equipment, costs for access rights to copyright works and other related intellectual property rights protected contents, costs for promotion and costs incurred directly as a result of the project or activity; depreciation charges and the costs of financing are only eligible if they have not been covered by inve ...[+++]stment aid;

Considers that pre-commercial procurement can work most effectively if there are sufficient incentives for public authorities to tap into research and development markets and for suppliers to become involved in government projects; notes therefore that financial incentives are extremely important in the uptake of pre-commercial procurement and already exist in certain Member States, where a substantial proportion of the costs of the first pre-commercial procurement can be matched by a central authority;

In the case of Project 144265 Shiplog II, regarding the Authority’s remark that the amount granted by the RCN equalled the sum necessary to purchase RD, the RCN argued that this does not imply that the private means invested in Shiplog II were not used on RD activities, ‘In industry-driven projects, which can be applied for by private companies, we generally encourage cooperation between private companies and public RD institutions. In order to promote such cooperation we may in some calls for proposals for industry-driven projects st ...[+++]ate that the application will be evaluated favourably if the external purchases of RD from research institutions (institutes or universities) are at least as high as the support given by the RCN.

On 6 April 2005, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking PAI Partners S.A.S (‘PAI’, France) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Gruppo Coin S.p.A (‘Gruppo Coin’, Italy) by way of purchase of shares.

A less rigid interpretation of the territorial principle is however feasible in the following cases: to finance expenses for participants from non-Community countries at meetings of the monitoring committees and subcommittees from the technical assistance budget according to Regulation No 1685/2000 on eligible costs; to reimburse the same expenses (travel and subsistence expenses, seminars, work placements, language courses) for the strand A projects of INTERREG III, except for the investment projects; to purchase services or equipment from partner countries, in accordance with EC public procurement law.In view of its geographical posi ...[+++]tion in close proximity to four acceding countries, Vienna is now eligible for INTERREG III A programmes with Hungary and the Czech Republic [Official Journal C 239 of 25.9.2001].

Purchase of real estate, i.e. buildings already constructed and the land on which they are built, or construction of buildings, is eligible for co-financing where there is a clear link between the purchase and the objectives of the project concerned, under the conditions set out below, and without prejudice to the application of stricter national rules: