Traduction de «Direction générale de l'expansion du commerce - Europe » (Français → Anglais) :

Witnesses: From the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade: Susan M.W. Cartwright, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Europe, Middle East and North Africa; John Curtis, Senior Policy Advisor and Coordinator, Trade and Economic Analysis Division; Serge Marcoux, Director, Baltic, Central European and EFTA Cuontries Division; Brian Oak, Director, Policy and Strategic Planning Division; Claudio Valle, Director, Technical Barriers and Regulations; Ross Miller, A/Director, European Union Division.

Mr. John Schwartzburg (Director, United States Business Development Division, Department of International Trade): Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide an overview of outsourcing from an international business development perspective.

This communication is designed to ensure that the mechanisms set out in Article 3(4) to (6) of the Electronic Commerce Directive and allowing Member States to apply on a case-by-case basis general-interest restrictions on an information society service provided in another Member State are correctly and strictly applied.

Collectively, the Balance of Payments Manual of the International Monetary Fund, the Guideline of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 2 May 2003 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of balance of payments and international investment position statistics, and the international reserves template , the Manual on statistics of international trade in services of the United Nations, and the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment, define the general rules for compiling statistics ...[+++]on balance of payments, international trade in services, and foreign direct investment.

This communication is designed to ensure that the mechanisms set out in Article 3(4) to (6) of the Electronic Commerce Directive and allowing Member States to apply on a case-by-case basis general-interest restrictions on an information society service provided in another Member State are correctly and strictly applied.

These usually involve the abolition of price support or a reduction to world market levels; income compensation (partial or full through direct payments; abolition of quotas and other supply management measures; direct income support payments and payments for environmental services on a national basis, with or without Community co-financing. This option certainly has the advantage that it would lead to a considerable simplification and would reduce agricultural expenditure substantially once compensation payments were phased out. Although such a radical reform may be appealing from an economist's point of view, it would imply a number ...[+++] of social and environmental risks which, at least in some regions, could lead to quite negative effects. In addition, at least in the first five to ten years, before compensatory payments are phased out to a large extent, it would imply huge sums of additional public expenditure. Reducing for example milk and sugar prices to bring them close to world market levels would imply drastic price cuts and necessitate some 10000 to 15000 mio ECU for direct payments if full compensation were to be achieved. If direct payments were to be made directly from Member State budgets, the question of economic and social cohesion would arise, and transfer payments between Member States would become necessary to bridge the gap between the richer and the poorer countries and to get the system work. 2.3. Developing the 1992 approach Towards higher competitiveness If the agricultural and agro-food sectors of the Community are to participate fully in the expected favourable world market developments and the expansion of world trade, improved competitiveness will remain a key challenge for the future. Competitiveness has many facets : quality and speciality of the product, value added through processing, services linked to the product, price, etc ...