Translation of "responsable générale de travaux de construction " (French → English) :

57. Calls for minimum EU energy-efficiency standards for new and refurbished buildings; calls on the relevant local authorities and professional associations in the Member States to establish energy-efficiency criteria, guidelines and national legislation or administrative decisions for new buildings as a leitmotiv for architects and building engineers, with building regulations for the energy efficiency of new buildings and major renovation works, and to ensure in this context clean and healthy indoor air;

Situation: Construction companies in a certain Member State come together to establish non-binding and open standard terms and conditions for use by a contractor when submitting a quotation for construction work to a client.

Services include a very wide range of activities, such as transport, telecommunications, services of economic interest, trade, construction, insurance services, public services, 'professional' services for undertakings or private individuals (tourism, catering, entertainment, private education, information, IT) and non-commercial services (public education, health, social welfare services).

Before construction of the base tunnel can start, several years of preparation will, however, still be necessary after completion of these studies: they will have to be dedicated to the administrative procedures related to the award of the building permit by the relevant public authorities (including, for example, extensive public hearings) and to the tendering of the construction works (most likely to be undertaken in the framework of a public-private partnership scheme, i.e. a concession).

Any project which concerns the following work will be deemed to be of common interest: construction and maintenance of all elements of the transport system generally open to all transport users within the port and of links with the national or international transport network; in particular, this includes the development and maintenance of land for commercial and other port-related purposes, the construction and maintenance of road and rail connections, the construction and maintenance, including dredging, of access routes and of other areas of water in the port, and the construction and maintenance of navigation aids and traffic managem ...[+++]ent, communication and information systems in the port and on the access routes".

Since it is usually necessary to value output of own-account construction by costs of production rather than prices, the deflator has to be adjusted in this respect.