Traduction de «production des branches d'activité marchande » (Français → Anglais) :

19. Is of the opinion that targeted research and development through existing instruments needs to be made more effective, and is concerned that such efforts have been neglected in certain branches of the renewable energy sector, which has led to commercialisation difficulties; notes that research, development and innovation focusing on reducing the environmental impact, and on making efficient use of waste – including food waste and debris recovered from the marine environment – to produce ...[+++] electricity, gas, and heat, can be important from the point of view of meeting energy and resource efficiency targets, provided that the energy efficiency standard set in the Waste Framework Directive are complied with, and of tackling energy poverty; notes also that the transport sector is an extremely large consumer of fossil fuels, and research into ways of improving energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions in transport will therefore have a beneficial impact;

8. Believes that using further indicators which could at most complement GDP should have been proved to result in a better picture of macroeconomic activity; stresses that GDP is the only indicator which makes it possible to take proper account of differing socio-economic characteristics at European level, but emphasises the need to take account of environmental and social factors at national and regional level and to determine suitable criteria for that purpose, and that, in this process, consideration could be given to the inclusion of non-market factors such as work in the home and voluntary work, as well as both positive and negativ ...[+++]e externalities relating to economic activity and the viability of activities over time;

16. Stresses that all jobs are committed to the objective of promoting sustainable development and that production and working methods should be organised so as to be as resource, material and energy efficient as possible; stresses that this approach should apply to the entire supply chain and that there is no sense in making a separation into good and bad industries, but all industries can be made more sustainable;

To preserve fully the interests of the shareholders of vertically integrated companies, Member States should have the choice of implementing ownership unbundling either by direct divestiture or by splitting the shares of the integrated company into shares of the network company and shares of the remaining supply and production business, provided that the requirements resulting from ownership unbundling are complied with.

The European Commission has approved a concentration by which the Swedish companies Mo och Domsjö AB (publ) and Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA (publ) will combine their fine paper production and merchant activities into a joint venture.

This is a traditional activity that has now to face the problem of the relatively low market value of its products in relation to production costs.