Traduction de «Entreprise de l'État » (Français → Anglais) :

N. whereas there have been numerous international initiatives to secure sustainability reporting by business, including the requirements for Chinese state-owned businesses to report and for businesses to report on the implementation of the CSR guidelines developed by the Government of India, along with the fact that businesses have to disclose their sustainability performance as a stock exchange listing requirement in Brazil, South Africa and Malaysia and as a requirement of the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States;

12. Regrets the fact that the public procurement procedures of our principal partners are not as open as those of the European Union; strongly supports the Commission’s work to revise EU legislation on public procurement, in particular the introduction of the measures needed to ensure fair access both for EU businesses to procurement procedures in third countries and for third-country businesses to European procedures, on the basis of the principle of reciprocity, and to strengthen the EU’s position when negotiating access for European businesses to third-country public procurement procedures; considers that reciprocity is needed in th ...[+++]is field between the EU, industrialised countries and major emerging partners; stresses, however, that these measures must take such a form that they do not lead to inappropriate new partitioning of the market, which in turn might have negative repercussions for European industry and its global trade relations; stresses, therefore, the need for evidence-based policy making and a thorough impact assessment as well as an assessment of the relative risks and benefits for EU business and public sector stakeholders, with a view to proposing legislation; calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal by the end of 2011 at the latest, as specified in the Communication on the Single Market Act;

Moreover, undertakings from non-participating Member States should have the possibility to obtain unitary patent protection on the territories of the participating Member States under the same conditions as undertakings from participating Member States.

For companies which do not have a credit history or a rating based on a balance sheet approach (such as certain special purpose companies or start-up companies), Member States may grant a reduction up to 15 % (25 % for SMEs) on the specific safe-harbour premium set at 3,8 % in the Commission Notice on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid in the form of guarantees (OJ C 155, 20.6.2008).

In order to comply with the principle of proportionality when determining the contribution to be made to the costs of the provision of the universal service in a Member State required from these undertakings, Member States should use transparent and non-discriminatory criteria such as the share of these undertakings in the activities falling within the scope of the universal service in this Member State.

4. In order to help ACP enterprises in their efforts to find new sources of supply with a view to benefiting to the maximum extent from the provisions of the Protocol as regards cumulation of origin, steps will be taken to ensure that the Centre for the Development of Enterprise provides assistance to ACP operators in the establishment of appropriate contacts with suppliers in the ACP States, the Community and the countries and territories, as well as to promote relations in the field of industrial cooperation among the operators concerned.