Traduction de «programme d'aide aux sociétés chorales » (Français → Anglais) :

Civil society organisations and local authorities: this programme will encourage civil society (i.e. non-state actors, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and citizens’ organisations) and local authorities to play a greater role in development strategies.

Lombardia. The programme focuses on a knowledge-based regional society and the information society.

The principal objectives of the information society programme are: adapting education to the new economy needs, creating content for education and culture, improving the quality of service which is offered to the citizens by the public sector including health and welfare, supporting e-business, facilitating new businesses, strengthening competitiveness of small-medium enterprises, enhancing the skills of the human resources, promoting employment in the new economy, enabling low-priced internet access and offering public access to digital services.

They were approved in the first quarter of 2001, apart from the information society programme which the Spanish authorities sent later than the others.

ALSO CONSIDERS the following points particularly urgent: - Rapid enactment of the liberalization of voice telephony by means of specific legal measures in accordance with the Council Resolution of 22 July 1993 and measures intended to guarantee the provision of universal service in accordance with the Council Resolution of 7 February 1994; - Acceleration of the European standardization process in an international context, particularly with a view to being able to respond to market trends more effectively; - Protection of intellectual property rights as related to the information society; - Issues concerning security of information sys ...[+++]tems; - Continuing activities on an international basis (e.g. trade issues, market access, interoperability, cooperation) and notably obtaining in GATT negotiations on Basic Telecommunications effective and comparable access to third countries' markets concerning services and infrastructures; - Improvement of the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and information industry in the world market, including the necessary development of a European programmes industry taking due account of the cultural specificities and impacts on the society of these programmes; - Issues concerning privacy; - Early setting up by the Member States and the Commission of the permanent coordination instrument referred to in the conclusions of the Corfu European Council.

4th Framework Programme RTD activities related to the information society - Implementation of RD programmes in the fields of: advanced communications technologies and services (ACTS), telematics applications and information technology; and of the programme on the distribution and exploitation of RDT results.