Traduction de «nouvelles approches du secteur informel » (Français → Anglais) :

A fresh approach to the tourist industry at European level

The Commission envisages setting rules common for both New Approach and the traditional method of technical harmonisation (the so-called “Old Approach”, under which a full set of technical specifications is required, such as in the sector of tractors).

New Approach" directives now cover more than 20 industrial sectors and thousands of industrial products, including building materials, toys, medical devices, gas fires, pleasure boats, machinery, and radio/telecoms equipment.

This new approach needs to be an improvement on the traditional approach that the European Union has been following up to now, which is essentially based on encouraging environmental improvement in the production sector through standards that establish limits for pollution and also through voluntary instruments that promote the differentiation of companies and products that incorporate environmental improvements.

20. NOTES that the New Approach created for the completion of the internal market, which combines the official instrument of the Directive with voluntarily applied European standards, has proved itself and should be further applied, and invites the Commission to examine systematically whether the New Approach principle can be applied to sectors not yet covered as a means of improving and simplifying legislation wherever possible;

Many of the planned measures are directed towards this objective: - improving the accessibility of legislation: 1996 plans include recasting the legislation relating to veterinary medicines and agricultural tractors and consolidation of the directives on machinery, technical standards and regulations, fertilizers, collective dismissals, dangerous substances and preparations, and the regulations on the common organization of the sugar market and the financing of the common agricultural policy; - rationalizing the legislation: examples are the general review of the strategy on waste, the framework proposal on water (integrated management), the follow-up to the Green Paper on food law, the horizontal rules governing State aids to replace the ...[+++]existing rules for the motor industry, man-made fibres and textiles; - lightening the administrative and other burdens resulting from legislation: for instance, simplification of the directive on the marketing of plant health products (single, fast-track procedure for certain pesticides); review of current thresholds and reference-back clauses in the merger-control regulation; simplification of rules of origin for Central and Eastern Europe, EFTA and the Mediterranean; promotion of use of administrative sources for statistical purposes; - widening the range of available instruments, notably by developing alternative approaches in place of legislation: implementation of the new non-legislative approach to accounting; development of frameworks for voluntary agreements with industry on environmental protection and "green" taxes and charges in the Member States; - facilitating the application of legislation by decentralization (e.g. Notice on cooperation with national authorities in competition law matters) or by flanking measures (e.g. methodological and financial support to the Member States for the implementation of the regulation on business statistical surveys).