Traduction de «Pan-European Game Information » (Anglais → Français) :

The introduction of the Pan European Game Information age rating system (PEGI) for rating games is an important tool which has improved the transparency for parents and other consumers when buying games for children.

18. Calls for additional efforts in this respect, including the possibility of integrating an acoustic warning into the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, and counts on the professional game sector to systematically integrate access models for online games in order to ensure that minors are not exposed to harmful content online;

Further to the February 26, 2004 appearance of Mr. Guy Bédard, Assistant Executive Director at Communications Canada, in connection with the examination of the Supplementary Estimates (B), I am pleased to provide background information with respect to the sponsorship value of the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg.

I have also a letter from the office of Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis providing information regarding the Pan American Games Society.

That the main aim of the updated eEurope 2005 Action Plan is to fine-tune the existing actions and strengthen the implementation mechanisms in order to speed up progress in five key areas (broadband, on-line public services, e-business, e-inclusion and benchmarking) as part of the Lisbon strategy. That following the commitment at the 2003 Spring European Council, the 15 Member States have all drawn up national broadband strategies. Broadband deployment and take-up are increasing rapidly and are mainly market-driven. That to address circumstances where there is clear evidence of market failure, the strategies stress to various degrees the ...[+++] need of increasing coverage of under-served areas through e.g. public support, demand aggregation and public private partnerships. That the strategies also stress to various degrees the need of stimulating demand through financial incentives and increased usage by the public sector; and of developing innovative applications and services supporting the introduction of broadband technologies in a technologically neutral way. In all these actions, the Guidelines on the use of Structural Funds in electronic communications should be followed so as not to distort competition nor thwart private commercial incentives. That on-line public services (eGovernment, eHealth and eLearning) make an important contribution to the Lisbon process by acting as a catalyst for growth, efficiency and innovation, and that there is a need to increase the impact of bringing public services on-line by enhancing interoperability, the exchange of good practice and pan-European co-operation. That interoperability, including open standards and open platforms, is of utmost importance for the effective deployment and use of ICT in all sectors, notably in the pan-European and national work for the development and implementation of eGovernment services. The importance of strengthening trust and security through the general development of a culture of network and info ...

Actions at national and regional levels aimed at developing inter-firm clusters and networks should therefore be supported, pan-European co-operation between small enterprises using information technologies enhanced, best practice in co-operative agreements spread, and small enterprises co-operation supported to improve their capabilities to enter pan-European markets and to extend their activities in third country markets.