Traduction de «Hull and machinery time policy » (Anglais → Français) :

hull and machinery policy

The level of potential rises over time as more workers join the labour force, businesses increase their investments in new technology, machinery and equipment, policy measures are taken to make product and labour markets more flexible, and all of us become more productive.

Allowing the possibility of applying reductions in the rates of taxation on, for example, gas oil for agricultural use in the current context of falling agricultural incomes and increases in fixed production costs (of which energy costs can account for up to 30% owing to the rise in oil prices and hence in such costs) is good news in terms of European farms’ viability, as no alternatives exist to the gas oil used in agricultural machinery. Nevertheless, if those tax concessions are to be linked to energy efficiency policies in order to reduce these fixed costs, they must be sufficiently flexible and incorporated into state strategies des ...[+++]igned in conjunction with the agriculture sector and forming part of a sufficiently long cycle in order not to further burden European farmers with additional charges that would undermine their economic viability at a time when they are already hampered by the requirements of the cross-cutting aspects of the common agricultural policy.