Traduction de «not less thereby » (Anglais → Français) :

Although our counterparts have done important work, and despite my gratitude to them for doing so and thus enabling themselves to really get to grips with these issues, I have to say that I am less happy about our entering into another obligation, as anyone reading the text of this interinstitutional agreement could only wonder what added value would thereby accrue to Parliament over and above its rights as laid down in the Treaties.

I. considering, on this point, that support and incentive measures should be established to promote geographic mobility, without prejudice to the priority of initiatives designed to attract productive investment and thereby to promote economic balance and social cohesion in less-developed areas.

The Commission's proposals aim at identifying practical ways in which the Community policies can enhance, in the framework of the Structural Funds and the Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, a systemic approach for RTD, and contribute thereby to the economic growth of less-favoured regions.

In this longstanding argument, one of the difficulties faced by those who defend the freedom to smoke is how to justify the production of something intended to provide pleasure which can, in extreme cases, damage health, as can other inessential pleasures such as good eating, good wine and aromatic alcoholic beverages, to which we can add, mutatis mutandis, aesthetic activities which are neither technical nor indispensable, connected with the cult of art for art's sake, whose sole purpose is to provide human beings with pleasurable sensations sometimes at great expense. Austere thinkers in the world of public opinion, morals and economics have tried in the past to abolish all of these habits, traditions and products, ...[+++]thereby making society harder, less free and very frequently even anti-human, thanks to the intolerance generated.

For the less developed regions eligible under Objective 1, the Commission proposes strict application of the GDP criterion by which assistance will only go to regions whose per capita GDP is less than 75% of the Union average, thereby ensuring full overlap with the regions aided by Member States under Article 92(3)a of the Treaty.

competent authorities may decide to directly award contracts for all heavy rail, including (sub)urban rail; and Member States have a possibility of applying this Regulation to public passenger transport by inland waterways; authorities can choose to grant direct awards to small and medium sized enterprises under a threshold, of either an average annual value estimated at less than 1,7 million euro or less than 500000 km of public passenger transport services; measures obliging authorities to provide information and the motivation for their decisions to directly award contracts, thereby ...[+++] increasing transparency; a contract length in the case of directly awarded contracts for rail of 10 years; and the possibility for competent authorities to refuse to allow operators under certain conditions to participate in the tenders they organise, if more than half of the contracts these operators have signed are not granted in accordance with the Regulation; a date of entry into force of 3 years after the publication in the Official Journal of the EU and a transition period of 12 years, allowing the public passenger transport sector in total 15 years to adapt to the new regime.