Traduction de «Taux de croissance hors concours communautaire » (Français → Anglais) :

(2) To this end the High-Level Group recommended a higher rate of Community aid to promote completion of the cross-border connections for the priority projects and added that the budgetary impact of such a change would be limited.

The modest growth rate by EU companies has to be seen against an annual growth in RD investment of about 7% by non-EU companies. On average, EU companies invest a smaller proportion of their sales in RD. One factor that can explain this is difference in industrial activities –EU companies have a strong presence in sectors characterised by a medium sales-to-RD investment ratio (such as ”automobiles parts”).

The country's situation continues to reflect the major structural problems that beset it: (a) the shortcomings of the social protection system, whose per capita level of public expenditure is the lowest in the EU (despite some impact on the risk of poverty, which would have been 37% without social transfers including pensions); (b) the low level of education (in 2002, only 20.6% of 25-64 year-olds had completed at least upper secondary education, and the early school-leaving rate of 45.5% contrasts strikingly with the EU average of 18.8%); (c) the low skill level of large sectors of the work ...[+++]ing population, in an economy based on labour-intensive, low-paid work ("the working poor "), together with low participation in continuing training (2.9% in 2002), hamper sectoral restructuring and explain why productivity growth is so low (0.3% in 2002, unchanged since 2001).

2. Reorientation The Commission is proposing a number of measures including: (a) increased Community financial support for exploratory fishing and stronger measures to assist joint ventures between Community fishing companies and those in third countries; (b) a new scheme to grant redeployment premiums; (c) new measures to encourage "joint enterprises" to enable Community and non-Community fishing companies to exploit resources in non-Community waters for the supply of the Community market, but with the definitive transfer of the vessels concerned to the non-member country; (d) increased Community aid for the final cessation of fishing either through scrapping of the vessel (the highest rate), its ...[+++]transfer to a non-member country or switching to an activity other than fishing.

The recommendations of the group are based on this central proposition and can be summarized in the following points : i) the execution of the internal market programme within the deadline requires stronger reliance on the principle of mutual recognition of national regulations, a more selective choice of priority areas, a less complex Community legislation, and effective solutions for what is emerging as a serious problem of compliance with Community law. In no circumstances should the 1992 deadline be shifted; ii) monetary policy c ...[+++]oordination and the mechanisms of the EMS have to be significantly strengthened if freedom of capital movements and exchange rate discipline are to survive and co-exist; iii) in a larger and more differentiated Community, redistributive functions through the budget and the lending instruments of the Community should be considerably developed in size and made more effective in their purpose and design; iv) a stepping up in the growth rate observed in recent years is necessary for the success of enlargement and the completion of the internal market. This should result from both the market opening process and a "cooperative growth strategy" such as has been proposed by the Commission to the Council.

- 2 - The outlook for the Community economy remains positive.-- Although growth is projected to moderate somewhat from the very high rates of 1988-89, output should increase in both 1990 and 1991 at a rate higher than the average for the 1980s.