Translation of "up sizing " (English → French) :

As of 1 September 2001, two protected areas for juveniles established, one off the west coast of France and one off the south and southwest of Ireland, where it is prohibited to use towed net of mesh size range 55 to 99 mm. Fixed gear of mesh size less than 120 mm prohibited in the area off the Irish coast and, in the area off the French coast, forbidden to fish using any fixed gear of mesh size less than 100 mm.

I really must disagree with the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, who stated recently in a newspaper interview that this amounted to no more than a toothpick, never mind a second pillar, because this fails to do justice to the size of the sum in question: 4.5 billion is a considerable sum of money – it is almost as much as we have for the whole of foreign policy and the size of this sum and this ratio need to be highlighted.

II. RECOGNIZING THAT - the development of small and medium-sized enterprises is of great importance for the competitiveness of the European economy, regional development and economic cohesion in the European Union, - small and medium-sized enterprises, including the various service activities, make an important contribution to growth and the creation of jobs, - the strengths of small and medium-sized enterprises lie in their flexibility and adaptability to changing circumstances, - this adaptability and flexibility is hampered by both internal (particularly financial and managerial) and external (particularly legal and administrative) hurdles, - a simple, logical and coherent legal framework would accordingly be essential to such enterpris ...[+++]es, CONSIDERING that local development initiatives offer considerable potential for strengthening the economic and social fabric of the European Union and for creating employment, AWARE that both measures to create a legislative and administrative environment favourable to the development of enterprise and effective, high-profile support measures are essentially the responsibility of the Member States, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity set out in Article 3b of the Treaty establishing the European Community, EMPHASIZES that it is a priority concern of enterprise policy in the Community, as mentioned in the multiannual programme, to improve the legislative and administrative environment for enterprises, to intensify and improve the Community's provision of information to enterprises, to promote cooperation and partnership between small and medium-sized enterprises and to ensure the promotion and coordination of Community instruments, IS ACCORDINGLY CONVINCED that the Community's policy in favour of small and medium-sized enterprises should be put into practice and made more effective through a new and extended partnership between the Member States and the Community, and through efficient and regular consultation of th ...

The measures to be implemented are: - transfer of knowledge to small and medium-sized businesses by wage support for new graduates from higher technical colleges for the execution of innovation processes in small and medium-sized businesses, in close contact with the education institution; - transfer of knowledge to small and medium-sized businesses by financial support for students in the final year in higher technical college, supported by external advisors to improve the sensibility of small and medium-sized businesses to new products; - 7 - - extension of the Biotechnology Research and Consultancy Centre at the University of Groningen; - a pilot demonstration project on powder metallurgy, organised by the University of Twente, for sm ...[+++]all and medium-sized businesses involved in sub-contracting.

These proposals are: a) Only one size of net per vessel A ban on having nets of several sizes on board at the same time, a measure which will ensure more strict observance of fishing rules. b) New rules governing mesh-sizes The Commission proposes raising from 90 mm to 120 mm the standard mesh size in zone 2 (North Sea and the west of Scotland), in order to reduce catches of juvenile fish.

-2- The Walloon programme, which covers the Objective 2 areas, comprises three measures, two co-financed by the ERDF and one by the ESF: - the creation of "growth poles" for technological development in small and medium-sized businesses (directors and representatives of research centres), as well as the encouragement of recourse by small and medium- sized businesses to existing innovation support facilities; - the supply of services to promote technological development to small and medium-sized businesses; technology information, search for technology openings on the international market, audits of capacity for innovation; - training in finalizing and industrializing strategies to convert research into applications (five modules: finaliz ...[+++]ing of research, approach to the market, industrial rights protection, industrial licensing and agreements, industrial-scale exploitation of technology) and training in small and medium-sized businesses to deal with problems of qualifications arising out of technology transfer).