Traduction de «état des résultats à groupements simples » (Français → Anglais) :

Stresses that multi-level governance allows better exploitation of the potential of territorial cooperation thanks to the relations developed among private and public actors across borders; urges those Member States which have not yet done so to adopt as soon as possible the necessary provisions allowing the setting up of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation; recommends that the Commission promote exchange of information between the EGTCs already created and those in the process of being set up in the framework of existing programmes; congratulates the Committee of the Regions on the quality of its work on EGTCs and calls for ...[+++] its available instruments, in particular its Lisbon Monitoring Platform and its Subsidiarity Monitoring Network, to be used to promote the exchange of best practices between regions and Member States with a view to the joint identification and determination of objectives, subsequent planning actions, and, finally, a comparative evaluation of the outcomes of cohesion policy;

Therefore, in line with the wording of the Protocol (referring to ‘at most the three best performing Member States’), in order to assess the fulfilment of the interest-rate criterion a reference value calculated as the simple arithmetic average of the nominal long-term interest rates of the two other best performing Member States in terms of price stability plus two percentage points was considered in the reports of the Commission and the ECB.

15. Reiterates the importance of ensuring access to credit, including micro-credit, especially in the current period of crisis and turmoil on the financial market, and calls on Member States to strengthen and amplify their policy measures in support of SMEs, for example by doing more than simply providing a second chance to honest entrepreneurs who have faced bankruptcy and by introducing guarantee funds and 'honour loans' for developing innovative projects geared towards sustainable development; furthermore, calls for account to be taken of SME cooperative arrangements in the Sm ...[+++]all Business Act, since it is established that such networks run less risk of insolvency than individual enterprises;

24. Is of the opinion that decisions on the accession of individual Member States should be based on high-quality data and evaluation following provisions of the Treaty and relevant protocols in this respect; therefore calls on the Commission and the ECB to make a comprehensive evaluation, which would be more than just a formal comparison of numbers, and to take into account the track records of convergence and achievements in ensuring macro-economic stability;

For Europe to become more than the sum of its parts as a global player, Member States and institutions should work together to deliver on the following areas:

In April 2002 the three best-performing Member States in terms of price stability were the United Kingdom, France and Luxembourg and the simple arithmetic average of the 12-month average inflation rates in these three countries was 1.8%.