Translation of "région reculée " (French → English) :

Despite the general increase in broadband connectivity, access in more remote and rural regions is limited because of high costs due to low density of population and remoteness.

20. Emphasises that e-commerce is important so as to ensure consumer choice and access to goods and services, in particular in remote areas; stresses the fact that appropriate action must be taken to develop its full potential, including by improving access to the internet in the most remote areas of the EU; supports the measures called for in the Commission Communication of 11 January 2012 on e-commerce to enhance confidence, simplify the registration of domains across borders, improve secure online payments and delivery services, facilitate cross-border debt recovery and improve information to consumers on their rights, particularly ...[+++]concerning withdrawals and opportunities to appeal;

20. Emphasises that e-commerce is important so as to ensure consumer choice and access to goods and services, in particular in remote areas; stresses the fact that appropriate action must be taken to develop its full potential, including by improving access to the internet in the most remote areas of the EU; supports the measures called for in the Commission Communication of 11 January 2012 on e-commerce to enhance confidence, simplify the registration of domains across borders, improve secure online payments and delivery services, facilitate cross-border debt recovery and improve information to consumers on their rights, particularly ...[+++]concerning withdrawals and opportunities to appeal;

– (PT) Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the remote areas of the European Union, particularly the outermost regions (including the Azores, the region I represent here), mountain regions, islands and sparsely populated areas, suffer from natural and geographical handicaps that are difficult to overcome and have great social costs.

3. Calls on the Commission to work towards more pertinent and territorialised statistical indicators in order to provide a more comprehensive picture of the development level of these regions; stresses that indicators other than GDP (total population, unemployment, employment rates, level of education, population density) can already be used in regions eligible under the Regional competitiveness and employment objective; asks the Commission to study the possibility for designating in the future specific indicators also for mountainous regions, islands, remote or sparsely populated areas among these indicators; is nevertheless of the o ...[+++]pinion that GDP must remain the main criterion for determining the eligibility for regional policy assistance;

3. Calls on the Commission to work towards more pertinent and territorialised statistical indicators in order to provide a more comprehensive picture of the development level of these regions; stresses that indicators other than GDP (total population, unemployment, employment rates, level of education, population density) can already be used in regions eligible under the Regional competitiveness and employment objective; asks the Commission to study the possibility for designating in the future specific indicators also for mountainous regions, islands, remote or sparsely populated areas;