Traduction de «Exigeant bon nombre de formalités administratives » (Français → Anglais) :

Instead of costly and administratively-demanding visas, Canada should, if anything, think hard about these conditions.

7. Endorses the commitment shown to addressing the issue of regulatory burdens; in this regard recalls the previous commitment of the Parliament to require the Commission to identify equivalent cost offsets when proposing new legislation; further recalls the Parliament’s request that the programme for administrative burden reduction be extended and expanded, and therefore looks forward to proposals to reduce administrative burdens and regulatory nuisances which would address many of the citizens’ and businesses’ main concerns regarding the Single Market;

83. Endorses the commitment shown to addressing the issue of regulatory burdens; in this regard, recalls the previous commitment of Parliament to require the Commission to identify equivalent cost offsets when proposing new legislation; further recalls Parliament’s request that the programme for administrative burden reduction be extended and expanded, and therefore looks forward to proposals for reducing administrative burdens and regulatory impediments, since these would address many of the main concerns of citizens and businesses regarding the Single Market;

2. Notes that, with a view to ensuring the efficient functioning of the single market, the mutual evaluation process of the Services Directive can be further improved, in particular by means of prompt data sharing; calls for an assessment of the impact of the directive on the quality of services, including an evaluation of the room for manoeuvre that the directive allows public authorities for the introduction of public interest requirements to service providers; believes that the existing unnecessary bureaucratic burdens at national, regional and local level prevent the implementation of general rules for all Member States;

4. Reduce administrative burdens and promote entrepreneurship Building on the Small Business Act, and in order significantly reduce administrative burdens on business, promote their cash flow and help more people to become entrepreneurs, the EU and Member States should: Ensure that starting up a business anywhere in the EU can be done within three days at zero costs and that formalities for the h ...[+++]iring of the first employee can be fulfilled via a single access point; Remove the requirement on micro-enterprises to prepare annual accounts (the estimated savings for these companies are € 7bn per year) and limit the capital requirements of the European private company to one euro; Accelerate the adoption of the European private company statute proposal so that from early 2009 it can facilitate cross border business activities of SMEs and to allow them to work under a single set of corporate rules across the EU; Ensure that public authorities pay invoices, including to SMEs, for supplies and services within one month to ease liquidity constraints and accept e-invoicing as equivalent to paper invoicing (this could deliver cost reductions of up to 18 € Bn); any arrears owed by public bodies should also be settled; Reduce by up to 75% the fees for patent applications and maintenance and halve the costs for an EU trademark.

14. Stresses that three essential conditions must be fulfilled if cooperation with regard to Kaliningrad is to succeed: firstly, 'good governance' in terms of efficient administration, properly functioning institutions and the actual enforcement of laws, secondly, structural reforms in the areas of legal certainty, a stable tax legislation environment and acquisition of land and thirdly, serious steps towards an economic and social renaissance of the region; considers that effective measures against corruption are crucial in order for these to be successful; encourages the Russian side to make administrative procedures applying to domestic and foreign ...[+++]investors more consistent and less time-consuming, by reducing the number of local contacts;