Traduction de «compétences d'évaluation et d'impulsion » (Français → Anglais) :

The European Council, which will from now on be distinguished from the Council of Ministers because they share neither the same composition nor the same competences, will provide the necessary impetus for the Union’s development and will set its broad political priorities.

The European Indicator of Language Competence is considered to be an extremely valuable instrument for obtaining reliable information concerning the linguistic proficiency of European citizens, in particular young people, enabling comparisons to be drawn between Member State policies in this area, and facilitating consultation regarding best practices, thereby giving fresh impetus to language teaching.

The key recommendations we have for you today are essentially that the federal government departments, such as Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, and others, work together with the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks to establish the benchmarks as the national standard for describing, measuring, and recognizing second language proficiency of adult immigrants and prospective immigrants in educational, training, community, and workplace settings; to promote the recognition and use of the Canadian language benchmarks as the national standard for industry; to improve the functioning of th ...[+++]e labour market through the talent, skills, and abilities that immigrants bring with them to Canada; to develop an expanded Canadian language benchmarks national assessment system to support the use of the benchmarks in education, training, and the labour market; and finally, to fast-track the development of occupational language analyses based on the essential skills profiles, in partnership with sector councils.

18. Recalls that monitoring and evaluation are basic and recurrent tasks of public administrations and that their systematic externalisation is incomprehensible and undesirable; stresses that, where the European Institutions feel that evaluations carried out by national and Community administrations, as well as by internal and external auditors, need to be supplemented by an external evaluation, the evaluation body must be selected on the basis of its skills and of its independence vis-à-vis the programme or the actions being evaluated; calls upon the Commission, therefor ...[+++]e, to phase out any "framework" contract concluded with external bodies for the evaluation of the current programmes and to refrain from hiring any external body on a repeated basis for the purpose of evaluation; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to refrain from hiring, for evaluation purposes, any external body that has had a previous contractual relationship with the Commission for the designing, monitoring or evaluating of actions or measures involved in these programmes;

18. Recalls that monitoring and evaluation are basic and recurrent tasks of public administrations and that their systematic externalisation is incomprehensible and undesirable; stresses that, where the European Institutions feel that evaluations carried out by national and Community administrations, as well as by internal and external auditors, need to be supplemented by an external evaluation, the evaluation body must be selected on the basis of its skills and of its independence vis-à-vis the programme or the actions being evaluated; calls upon the Commission, therefor ...[+++]e, to phase out any "framework" contract concluded with external bodies for the evaluation of the current programmes and to refrain from hiring any external body on a repeated basis for the purpose of evaluation; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to refrain from hiring, for evaluation purposes, any external body that has had a previous contractual relationship with the Commission for the designing, monitoring or evaluating of actions or measures involved in these programmes;

Thus it is expected that an important impetus will be provided to private sector led initiatives for the creation of European information infrastructures; INVITES the Member States to supply the necessary impulse to launch general interest applications in cooperation with the private sector and with regional and local authorities; NOTES the initiatives the Commission intends to take in order - to give the necessary impetus to contribute in the context of existing activities to specific projects such as those mentioned in the report of the BANGEMANN group; - to encourage the implementation of an environment stimulating new forms of pri ...[+++]vate sector led partnerships, involving where appropriate Member States, regions and towns, for general interest applications; - to present to the Parliament and the Council a Communication further to the Green Paper on media pluralism; NOTES that the Commission is taking account of social and cultural aspects of the information society and welcomes its intention to give priority, in parallel with and complementary to the process of liberalization, to initiatives in the following areas: employment and work environment as well as social, cultural and language aspects; INVITES the Commission and the Member States to stimulate public debate on the ways to maximize the benefits of the information society; VI CALLS UPON all competent Council compositions to pursue where necessary the areas of applications agreed to in general by the European Council and to adopt as soon as possible the necessary regulatory and legal measures; WELCOMES the holding of the forthcoming G7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society and INVITES the Commission to do the necessary preparatory work in cooperation with the Member States; INVITES THE COMMISSION to submit a report in time to enable the European Council in Essen (9 and 10 December 1994) to assess the progress made".