Traduction de «bas produits » (Français → Anglais) :

13. Takes the view that, in order to develop the full potential of public procurement, the criterion of lowest price should no longer be the determining one for the award of contracts, and that it should, in general, be replaced by the criterion of most economically advantageous tender, in terms of economic, social and environmental benefits – taking into account the entire life-cycle costs of the relevant goods, services or works; stresses that this would not exclude the lowest price as a decisive criterion in the case of highly standardised goods or services; asks the Commission to develop, in close cooperation with the Member States, a methodology for the calculation of life-cycle costs on a broad and non-obligatory ...[+++]basis; stresses that supporting the criterion of ‘maximum economic benefit’ would foster innovation and efforts to achieve the best quality and value, i.e. to comply with the requirements of the Europe 2020 strategy; stresses that this is particularly relevant in relation to public procurement of goods that have an impact on consumers' health – in the food sector, for example – where quality and production methods play an important role; emphasises that public procurement rules should be flexible enough to ensure that passive consumers, for example in hospitals, care facilities for the elderly, schools and kindergartens, have equal access to healthy, value-for-money food, rather than merely the cheapest available option;

2. In the case of products intended for particular nutritional uses, as defined in Commission Directive 1999/21/EC of 25 March 1999 on dietary foods for special medical purposes and infant formulae, follow-on formulae and diversification foods intended for infants and young children, which fall within the scope of Commission Directive 2006/141/EC of 22 December 2006 on infant formulae and follow-on formulae and Commission Directive 2006/125/EC of 5 December 2006 on processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children , which are subject to mandatory labelling requirements under Union legislation in addition to those particulars referred ...[+++] to in Article 9(1) of this Regulation, the font size should be such that it meets the need for information for consumers to be legible and for additional information related to the particular use of those foods.

They will finally be crushed by the unfair competition of goods at the very lowest prices, produced without any proper monitoring of the conditions in the production and distribution chain, either with regard to environmental impact or the social security benefits and employment benefits enjoyed by the labour force.

(b) "safe product" shall mean any product which, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use including duration and, where applicable, putting into service, installation and maintenance requirements, does not present any risk or only the minimum risks compatible with the product's use, considered to be acceptable and consistent with a high level of protection for the safety and health of persons, taking into account the following points in particular:

(b)‘safe product’ shall mean any product which, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use including duration and, where applicable, putting into service, installation and maintenance requirements, does not present any risk or only the minimum risks compatible with the product's use, considered to be acceptable and consistent with a high level of protection for the safety and health of persons, taking into account the following points in particular:

16. Wishes, however, to see Community fishermen and the Community processing industry protected from all forms of unfair competition; this should also include competition from third-country providers of fisheries products who can offer lower prices because they pay ultra-low wages, subject their employees to extremely hard working conditions, fish in ways that are incompatible with resource conservation, or offer fisheries products of suspect quality obtained under dubious health conditions; therefore asks the Commission to study wh ...[+++]at can be done to that effect;