Traduction de «deux niveaux plus bas » (Français → Anglais) :

Within the Member States too there were large divergences; the ratio between the highest and lowest regional RD levels was above 4 in all, and considerably higher in most.

In two years world food prices have increased by over 80% and cereal stocks have fallen to dangerously low levels.

3. Considers the scrapping of all form of regulation within the CMOs to be politically undesirable since, as the current situation shows, European and global reserves stand at dramatically low levels, which is having negative repercussions on consumer purchasing power and farmers" incomes, while at the same time encouraging speculation; emphasises that, besides this, instruments are needed to combat a potential economic downturn and the risks posed by health incidents and increasingly frequent natural disasters arising from the unsettled climate;

The Governing Council of the ECB therefore decided in December to raise the key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points, after two and a half years of maintaining these rates at historically low levels.

A defining characteristic of the informal economy is that workers face lower income, greater financial risk, lower standards of human development and greater levels of social exclusion compared to those who work in the formal economyAs outlined before, the pressure on companies to compete in an increasingly globalised economy has led to a downward trend in wages and operating costs.

57. Welcomes the Commission's reporting of annual Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitments on a sectoral basis in line with the classifications for 2001 and 2002 of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and recognises that the 35% benchmark for social infrastructure was achieved in both years with the inclusion of budget support measures with social sector conditionality; regrets that unacceptably low levels were reported for the health and education sectors, closely linked to the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals, and calls on the Commission ...[+++] to improve these figures with a view to achieving the 20% agreed in the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen from 5 to 12 March 1995; points up its intention to closely follow up how the Commission acts on the benchmark that 35% of annual commitments for developing countries should be allocated to social infrastructure, while the bulk of allocations should go to basic health and basic education activities;