Translation of "translation of taille haute " (French → English) :

The consequence is that many established innovative companies – both large and small – cannot obtain loans for higher-risk RI activities.

Union support to ICT research and innovation is also enabling hi-tech SMEs to grow and capitalise on the size of Union-wide markets.

Generating new knowledge of interface and size dependent phenomena; nano-scale control of material properties for new applications; integration of technologies at the nano-scale including monitoring and sensing; self-assembling properties; nano-motors; nano-machines and nano-systems; methods and tools for characterisation and manipulation at nano-dimensions; nano- and high-precision technologies in chemistry for the manufacture of basic materials and components; the study and production of nano-metre precise components; impact on human safety, health and the e ...[+++]nvironment; metrology, monitoring and sensing, nomenclature and standards; exploration of new concepts and approaches for sectoral applications, including the integration and convergence of emerging technologies.

France Télécom’s market shares, its capacity to supply the whole range of broadband products at both wholesale and retail level, its size and its control of the local infrastructure, led ARCEP to conclude that France Télécom is dominant on the wholesale nation-wide broadband access market.

Affected are not only the overall market for stevedoring services for deep sea container vessels, but possibly also narrower-defined markets, such as for the transhipment of containers from deep sea ships to smaller vessels for transport to other (smaller) ports in Europe, or for specialised services to particular categories of very large deep-sea vessels.

The Community should actively support the introduction, as appropriate, through international agreement, of the same kind of measures for the high seas as have been accepted in Community waters. In addition to quantitative restrictions such measures as closed areas and closed seasons should be considered. With a view to monitor more precisely the effort engaged license systems should be developed for fishing on the high seas. In case of depleted stocks the introduction of effort limitation schemes should not be ruled out. Structural policies should be strengthened to ensure that the Community's fishing fleet is of a size which is appropr ...[+++]iate for the rational exploitation of legitimate fishing possibilities on the high seas. There is also room for wider use of technical conservation measures.