Traduction de «politique de la concurrence de l'ue » (Français → Anglais) :

Secondly, they broadly support other EU policies, in particular consumer policy (by equalising and bringing down charges for cross-border and national payments to the benefit of consumers) and competition policy, by establishing equal obligations, rights and opportunities for all market players and facilitating cross-border provision of payment services, thus increasing the level of competition.

1. Welcomes the Commission's action to modernise competition policy and, in particular, its reinforced stance on combating cartels, its renewed targeting of unauthorised State aid and its sector inquiries; congratulates the Commission on the steps it has taken in improving the functioning of the European Competition Network (ECN); congratulates the Commission on its achievements in the area of multilateral and bilateral cooperation and calls for further progress in its activities towards the international convergence of competition policy;

It is crucial, therefore, that the synergies between certain Community policies (industrial policy, research and development policy, competition policy, internal market strategy, fiscal policy, employment policy, education and training policy, environment policy, transport and energy policy, regional policy) are exploited to obtain the best results in terms of competitiveness, both at European and national level.

5. Requests in this context the inclusion of competition policy in the negotiating agenda; advocates the introduction and application of multilateral rules for an effective competition policy for WTO members in addition to existing trade defence measures; stresses that such an agreement should determine the basic principles of an effective competition policy and include obligations for the implementation of that policy, rules on international cooperation between the national competition authorities and an effective procedure for resolving disputes; in the early stages of the implementation of competition law and policy would choose to focus on certain core substantive areas such as cartels and abuse of a dominant ...[+++]position;

31. However, in order to further increase transparency with regard to competition policy and services of general interest the Commission will in the future add a specific section on services of general interest to its annual report on competition policy setting out how the competition rules were applied to such services.

28. Advocates a larger role for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in international competition policy; therefore calls on the Council to instruct the Commission to conduct negotiations aimed at concluding multilateral agreements on international competition law in the context of the WTO; at the same time, urges the Commission to incorporate uniform minimum competition standards and the establishment of independent competition authorities in all WTO member countries in the guidelines for combating practices detrimental to competition, which interfere with trade and investment;