Traduction de «With threshold current lower than 50mA » (Anglais → Français) :

EU countries may lower the value threshold for travellers aged under 15, whatever their means of transport, but this threshold may not be lower than €150

The level of social aid is currently lower than the threat of poverty, and the Member States should adapt it to meet its main objective – lifting people out of poverty.

However, he believes that the proposed monetary thresholds for air and sea ferry/cruise travellers on import of goods other than tobacco products and alcohol beverages are set too low and should be increased substantially; the threshold for land crossings although lower than air and sea could also be moderately increased.

I would like to point out that we are talking about thresholds which are lower than those currently proposed by the market and that, since 9 September 2001, the costs of insurance have been decreasing steadily, although it is true – and Mr Nicholson was right about this – that the problem is raised by small companies, with which there is a case-by-case negotiation.

In a few years, the EU will probably have 25 Member States. In many of the applicant countries, wages are lower than in Portugal and working conditions are such that hourly labour costs are far lower than they are in the current European Union.

To take some examples, they say that the current legislation on the right to information and consultation is flouted on a regular basis by companies, due to the lack of precise definitions for these terms, that they have no administrative and judicial support which is needed in order to check compliance with the directive, that the directive only applies in very restricted circumstances and is not at all applicable in many transnational companies with numbers of employees lower than ...[+++] the current threshold, that it is inconceivable that authorisations for mergers are granted when the only criterion to be fulfilled is that of observing the competition law and that the social, regional or environmental impact of mergers is not taken into account, that they are powerless when mergers are taking place, during which previous consultation procedures are no longer used, since new procedures have yet to be set up, and, finally, that they are disgusted to see that the same companies which undertake these severe restructurings have occasionally received assistance from the Structural Funds.