Traduction de «préserver la concurrence » (Français → Anglais) :

As you know from several interventions in the media—particularly one medium—I've been able to actually get the point across with respect to how much time it will take before you're able to get your issue before the Competition Tribunal, notwithstanding the fact that the Competition Bureau has taken the right position with ensuring—notwithstanding the Transportation Act and certainly notwithstanding the beliefs within the Transportation Act—that preserving competition is far more important than protecting a particular competitor.

18. Notes that European citizens want a high-quality, area-wide and affordable supply of necessary and important public services, while increasing competition and promoting a more level playing-field between providers of those services, whether they are public or private; highlights that, to that end, safeguarding competition between different providers is crucial; stresses that the recent SGEI package could lead to a simpler, clearer and more flexible framework in this regard; emphasises the Commission’s responsibility, under the TFEU competition rules, to ensure that the compensation granted to SGEIs is compatible with EU rules on state aid, in order to avoid imposing low-quality but expensive services on the public; expr ...[+++]esses its concern with regard to exempting too many services from the scrutiny of competition authorities;

2. Stresses the importance of continuing efforts towards ubiquitous and high-speed access to fixed and mobile broadband for all citizens and consumers, including by safeguarding competition to the benefit of consumers; emphasises that this requires targeted policies that promote competition and efficient investment and innovation in new and enhanced access infrastructures and consumer choice in delivering access, on fair terms and at competitive prices for all citizens, irrespective of location, thereby ensuring that no European citizen faces exclusion;

The new regulation will allow the Commission to review and, if necessary take enforcement actions to preserve competition with respect to, for example, airline cooperation agreements, in particular alliances such as Star, Skyteam and Oneworld, which are global in nature and which effects on competition cannot be properly assessed without looking at the intercontinental routes, such as transatlantic ones.

In its competition - anti-trust and state aid - policy, the Commission has consistently supported cooperation of this kind at all times ensuring, however, that competition between different independent poles of research are safeguarded in Europe.

Community competition policy which seeks to promote technological innovation and competitiveness while maintaining workable competition should not in a systematic way either encourage or discourage mergers.