Traduction de «operations centre » (Anglais → Français) :

2. Expresses its satisfaction that the Court of Auditors has declared the operations underlying the Centre's annual accounts for the financial year 2009 to be legal and regular; welcomes the Centre's intention to make available in respect of 2011 Gantt charts for all key operational activities; reminds the Centre that these charts outline, in a concise way, the amount of time spent by each staff member on a project and encourage an approach geared towards achieving results;

20. Calls once again for the establishment of a permanent EU operations centre overseen by the Vice-President/High Representative, which would be responsible for operational planning and the conduct of military operations; calls for this operations centre to be attached to the EEAS; stresses that the division of the existing system into seven headquarters makes it less effective and responsive and generates huge costs, and that a permanent interlocutor in the military sphere is essential for civil and military coordination on the ground; takes the view that the permanent operations centre could therefore be classed as a form of milita ...[+++]ry planning and conduct capability, and located in the same place as the CPCC in order to allow the necessary synergies for effective civilian and military coordination; reiterates that the EU operations centre would facilitate cooperation with NATO, without compromising the decisional autonomy of both organisations;

20. Calls once again for the establishment of a permanent EU operations centre overseen by the Vice-President/High Representative, which would be responsible for operational planning and the conduct of military operations; calls for this operations centre to be attached to the EEAS; stresses that the division of the existing system into seven headquarters makes it less effective and responsive and generates huge costs, and that a permanent interlocutor in the military sphere is essential for civil and military coordination on the ground; takes the view that the permanent operations centre could therefore be classed as a form of milita ...[+++]ry planning and conduct capability, and located in the same place as the CPCC in order to allow the necessary synergies for effective civilian and military coordination; reiterates that the EU operations centre would facilitate cooperation with NATO, without compromising the decisional autonomy of both organisations;

A Co-ordination Centre is an undertaking belonging to a multinational group providing services to other members of the group. Under a 10-year license granted by the tax authorities, the taxable revenues of a Co-ordination Centre are determined according to the so-called "cost-plus" method. The cost plus method is normally aimed at avoiding double taxation and limiting tax avoidance. In the cost plus method, the taxable profit is calculated as a percentage of the aggregated operating costs. Although this method of taxation does not con ...[+++]stitute State aid per se, its practical application may well give rise to State aid. With respect to the Belgian scheme, the Commission has concluded that the Belgian authorities apply the cost-plus method in a way that gives raise to State aid. Firstly, Belgium systematically uses a default mark-up rate of 8% without verifying whether this rate reflects the economic reality of the services provided by the Co-ordination Centres. Secondly, the way in which the expenditure of the Centre is calculated excludes significant operating cost items of the Centre. Thirdly, the Belgian Co-ordination Centres enjoyed additional tax advantages such as a withholding exemption on income distributions and a real-estate property tax exemption. The benefits reduce the amount of taxable profits and thus grants an advantage not justified under the EU State aid rules.

The Chair: Is not the capacity to communicate dealt with by your operations centre, the police communicate back to the operations centre and then sitting beside the policeman in the operation centre is a fireman who communicates the message to the fire department?

Mr. Garnett: If the model is of the security centre or operations centre having a say in the operation of that vessel in those other 10 per cent of cases where that centre knows there is a risk or a probability of running across or being involved in — for example, a Coast Guard ship sailing into the Arctic for a period of time — they would know what that is, and that is somewhere you might wish to place a team, by virtue of the knowledge that centre has.