Traduction de «First-stage sampling unit » (Anglais → Français) :

in the first case, the dynamics are assessed by monitoring changes in the species composition over a large area, utilizing sampling units greater than 100 m, with a low to medium accuracy in estimates of changes in cover for each of these species,

In her Opinion today, First Advocate General Christine Stix-Hackl, who was assigned to the case following Advocate General Jacobs’s departure from the Court on 10 January 2006, concurs with Mr Jacobs that IRAP, as described by the referring court, possesses the essential characteristics of VAT, in terms of generality of application, proportionality to price, the fact that it is charged at each stage of the production and distribution process and the fact that it is imposed on the value added to a supply at each stage with a mechanism for deduction of that tax paid at previous stages – provided that the ratio between the amounts paid by a representative sample of busine ...[+++]ss in IRAP and VAT is substantially constant.

the Gleneagles Plan of Action with its strong emphasis on implementation of commitments on technology transfer and managing the impacts of climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and LOOKS FORWARD to working together with G8 and other countries to pursue measures outlined in the plan; the positive and productive discussion at the preparatory meeting of ministers in Ottawa on technology, adaptation, enhancing participation, market forces and sustainability; the Greenland Dialogue meeting, which ...[+++]allowed for a constructive exchange on possible ways forward; the fifth meeting of the Forum of Ibero-American Ministers of the Environment in Panama on 21 and 22 September 2005; the China-EU Partnership on Climate Change and the India-EU Initiative on Clean Development and Climate Change, which demonstrate how economies in different stages of development can work together, through transfer of technology and building of capacity, to tackle climate change; the sixteenth EU-Russia summit which demonstrates the close and growing cooperation between the EU, its Member States and Russia on climate change, including work on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and an active dialogue on continuing international cooperation after the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol; the forthcoming Beijing International Renewable Energy Conference in November 2005, believing it will make a positive contribution to advancing understanding of how to drive technological innovation and of the importance of using existing technologies with a view to moving towards a low-carbon emitting economy; the decision to place climate change high on the agenda of the summit with Canada, to prepare the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 11) and the first Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 1) in Montreal in December 2005 ...

In this case, the total population of local units is first divided into non-overlapping subpopulations (strata) and a sample of local units is drawn from each stratum.

In an industrial site which processes sugar beet into white sugar, in which the first-stage installations take delivery of the sugar beet, process it and extract the sugar-bearing liquids and the second-stage installations convert into white sugar the liquids and syrups in question, which can be enriched by the addition of DOM raw sugar, the said second-stage installations cannot be regarded as constituting, either permanently or intermittently, a 'production unit' or a 'refinery' within the meaning of Article 9(4) of Council Regulati ...[+++]on (EEC) No 1785/81 and of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2225/86.

Following a complaint lodged by the International Express Carriers Conference (IECC), the Commission has initiated the first stage of proceedings under Article 85, which concerns restrictive practices, and Article 86, which concerns the abuse of dominant positions, against seven national postal administrations (those of Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, and Finland, Sweden and Switzerland).