Traduction de «différence des moyennes » (Français → Anglais) :

4. For each relevant country, the volatility adjustment to the risk-free interest rates referred to in paragraph 3 for the currency of that country shall, before application of the 65 % factor, be increased by the difference between the risk-corrected country spread and twice the risk-corrected currency spread, whenever that difference is positive and the risk-corrected country spread is higher than 100 basis points.

This report recognises the value of women entrepreneurs in small and medium enterprises, recognises they face many different problems in achieving their goals in different Member States, recognises the contribution, women in employment can make to both the community and the economy of the EU.

One may also cite the Commission’s proposals in its communication on risk management (COM(2005) 74), where it proposes a specific modulation to finance different mechanisms via the transfer of the appropriations released to Axis 1 (encouragement of competitiveness under the second pillar of the CAP).

However, a structural gap between producer and consumer prices cannot be observed, since for the last two years (i.e. comparing August 2006 with September 2004) the index of producer prices and the HICP for Greece differed on average by only two index points.

In spite of this methodological caveat, the first Observatory's report underlines a number of useful elements, namely as regards: - an indication to the existence of different problems, attitudes and behaviour within the SME sector, justifying the adoption of differentiated policy approaches aiming at micro, small and medium enterprises; - a differentiated contribution of SMEs to employment as only micro firms have been able to secure some net job creation in 1991-1992, these years being characterised by an important reduction in the number of both medium-sized and large enterprises as well as in their employment levels; - the importance to provide appropriate information and counselling, as well as adequate formation to newly created ent ...[+++]erprises; - the Community's role in assisting cooperation and transnational business relationships, to stimulate the potential for cooperation, and to encourage those enterprises who are still apprehensive of cooperation; - the differences in financial problems, depending on the type of enterprise considered (size and sector) and the requirement to be met (creation, expansion, liquidity position or transfer); - the importance of the Community's efforts to provide assistance to enterprises and to promote economic development through transborder and transnational cooperation, namely by means of the INTERREG initiative and the intervention of Structural Funds; - the need of further improving the absorption of Community's funds by SMEs, alleviating financial burdens and helping develop financial institutions geared to the needs of SMEs, and assisting the development of managerial resources in less favoured regions.

The investment aid available under the various schemes in force in the region may not exceed the following limits: (a) in the mountain areas of the provinces of Trieste and Gorizia, 30% net grant equivalent for small firms and 25% net grant equivalent for medium-sized firms; (b) in the areas covered by Objective 5(b), 20% gross grant equivalent for small firms and 7.5% gross grant equivalent for medium-sized firms; (c) in the other areas of the region, 15% gross grant equivalent for small firms and 7.5% gross grant equivalent for medium-sized firms. 2".