natgillin/translations-raw huggingface dataset:
Kommissionen vedtog den 16. december (1) for første gang retningslinjer, som beskriver Kommissionens analytiske fremgangsma˚de, na˚r den vurderer den sandsynlige virkning for konkurrencen af fusioner mellem konkurrerende virksomheder.
This year the Commission issued detailed opinions in50 cases (1) on breaches of Community law to which draft regulations might give rise.
Ved en beslutning af 13. februar (2) henviste Kommissionen undersøgelsen af seks transaktioner efter anmodning fra det belgiske økonomiministerium om henvisning af samtlige fusioner og virksomhedsovertagelser som følge af aftaler mellem seks interkommunale myndigheder og Electrabel om leverance af el og gas til udvalgte kunder i Flandern.
These detailed opinions show that the sectorscausing most problems are the farm and food products and telecommunications sectors.The number of notifications under the procedure for the exchange of information in thefield of technical regulations provided for in the agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) went from 49 in 2002 to 34 in 2003.
Kommissionen konstaterede, at transaktionen ville risikere at forstærke Electrabels dominerende stilling pa˚ markedet for leverance af el og gas til udvalgte kunder, der er af national karakter, hvorfor den imødekom anmodningen fra de belgiske myndigheder, der herefter vil foretage undersøgelsen.
The Commission, acting on behalf of the Community, sent a total of 12 observations to the EFTA countries that are signatories tothe EEA Agreement.
Med transaktionen skabes verdens største lægemiddelvirksomhed.
In the light of a positive overall assessment, it regards this procedure as an effective tool for managing the internal marketin this new economic field.
Kommissionen havde rejst alvorlig tvivl om, hvorvidt anvendelsen af forskellige lægemidler til human- og veterinærbrug var forenelige med det indre marked, hvorefter parterne havde foresla˚et en række tilsagn for at fjernede konkurrencemæssige betænkeligheder.
On 23 May (3) the Commission also adopted a report on the operation from 1999 to 2001 of Directive 98/34/EC laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations.
Selv om transaktionen medfører etablering af et næsten-monopol pa˚ det italienske marked for betalings-tv, fandt Kommissionen, at en godkendelse af transaktionen, under forbehold af passende betingelser, ville være at foretrække for forbrugerne fremfor de markedsforstyrrelser, som den sandsynlige lukning af Stream, den mindste og svageste af de to eksisterende operatører, ville havde medført.
294.Regulatory policy. A number of regulatory policy issues are dealt with in Section 6(‘Simplifying and improving the regulatory environment’) of Chapter I (→ points 28–30)and Section 5 (‘Internal market’) of this chapter (→ point 182).
Kommissionen kom til den konklusion, at den samlede pakke af korrigerende foranstaltninger, som er foresla˚et af Newscorp og omfatter tilsagn af strukturel og adfærdsmæssig art, genetablerer reelle konkurrencemæssige forhold, og den besluttede der for ikke at modsætte sig transaktionen.
295.Technical harmonisation and standardisation. In a communication dated 7 May (4),the Commission offered a general review intended to improve the application of the ‘new approach’ directives (5), a legislative technique used in the area of the free movement ofgoods which consists of defining only the essential requirements with which products mustcomply and leaving to voluntarily applicable harmonised standards the job of defining the
Kommissionen godkendte ved beslutning af 30. april (1), at der oprettes en joint venture, Toll Collect GmbH, mellem
In a resolution of 10 November (1) the Councilapproved the objectives and recommendations in the Commission’s communication.
DaimlerChrysler AG og Deutsche Telekom AG under forbehold af parternes overholdelse af de givne tilsagn. Toll Collect skal installere og drive et vejskatopkrævningssystem for lastbiler i Tyskland, som ogsa˚ vil kunne bruges som platform for telematiktjenester.
This document sets out the politicalframework for making better use of European standardisation in Community policies.
Kommissionen frygtede, at transaktionen ville give DaimlerChrysler en dominerende stilling pa˚ det voksende marked for telematiktjenester i Tyskland.
In addition, new financial partnership agreements were drawn up with CEN/Cenelec/ETSI for the period 2004–07 so as to allow the Commission to fund specificstandardisation activities supporting various Community policies (internal market,services, transport and energy, the environment, information technology, security andjustice, consumer protection).
Daim-lerChrysler og Deutsche Telekom har ved at foresla˚ en række tilsagn kunnet bringe Kommissionens betænkeligheder til ophør, og samtidig medfører tilsagnene, at der etableres lige betingelser for samtlige konkurrenter, at der a˚bnes for en udvikling af det voksende marked for telematiktjenester, og at der tages særligt hensyn til forbrugernes interesser.
Several mandates for launching standardisation activities,particularly in the fields of the environment and services, were entrusted to the Europeanstandardisation organisations.
Kommissionen godkendte ved beslutning af 11. juni (3), at det østrigske elselskab O¨ sterreichische Elektrizita¨tswirtschafts-AG (Ver- bund) sammensluttes med fem østrigske regionale elforsyningsselskaber under betegnelsen Energie Allianz under forbehold af parternes overholdelse af de afgivne tilsagn.
296.The activities pursued in 2003 under the multiannual programme fall under threeheadings: the financial instruments managed by the European Investment Fund (EIF), thesupport services provided to enterprises at European level through the network of Euro
Kommissionen godkendte ved beslutning af 18. juli (4), at jernmalmproducenten CVRD overtager enekontrollen med det brasilianske mineselskab CAEMI, forudsat at de tilsagn, parterne har afgivet, overholdes.
This last heading covers a limited number of BEST projects reflecting policy priorities agreed with the Member States, together with certain studies and exercisesin collecting data and disseminating information on enterprise policy.
Overgangen fra fælleskontrol til enekontrol, som bliver resultatet af transaktionen, da den følger efter en
The Commission, inclose cooperation with the national governments and other interested players, has launched
DET ØKONOMISKE OG SOCIALE OMRA˚DE anden transaktion, som Kommissionen med visse forbehold godkendte i okto-
THE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AREA new BEST projects on the following themes: mini-companies in secondary education;obstacles to growth; recruiting the first employee; consultation of stakeholders in the shaping of national and regional entrepreneurship policies; guarantees and mutual guarantees.
1), giver ikke anledning til nye konkurrenceproblemer.
European Charter for Small Businesses (1
DSM indgik en række forpligtelser med henblik pa˚ at afslutte sin alliance med den tyske finkemikalievirksomhed BASF om produktion og distribution af enzymer til fødevarer og afsta˚ sine aktiviteter inden for produktion af fødevareenzymer til en køber, som Kommissionen skal godkende.
The European Economic and Social Committee stressed the impor- tance of such reports in its opinion of 18 June (3). On 21 January the Commission alsoadopted a communication entitled ‘Thinking small in an enlarging Europe’ (4), aimed atstimulating debate on the needs of small businesses.
Kommissionen godkendte ved beslutning af 4. august (4), at der oprettes et joint venture, som kontrolleres ligeligt af de franske og italienske jernbaner, henholdsvis SNCF og Trenitaliala.
298.On 4 December (6) the Commission adopted a communication on business-relatedservices which deals in particular with the competitiveness of these services and theircontribution to the efficiency and success of European businesses.
Den fælles virksomhed skal under navnet Autoroute Ferroviaire Alpine (den alpine jernbanemotorvej) tilbyde en ny pendultjeneste til jernbanetransport af lastbiler og sættevogne gennem Fre´jus-tunnelen i Mont- Cenis med det forma˚l at aflaste vejene over Alperne.
The communicationanalyses the role of business-related services, which comprise four groups of activities:general services to businesses, activities relating to the distributive trades, network services and financial services.
Den nye tjenesteydelse vil indga˚ i en vifte af forskellige passageformer og -ruter, der allerede findes over Alperne, og den vil sa˚ledes give chaufførerne et nyt alternativ.
It also highlights the importance of these services in the EUeconomy, where they constitute the largest sector, with 55 million persons employed in2000, or 55 % of total employment in the market sector, and stresses that business-relatedservices are the main source of job creation and represent more than two thirds of newlycreated businesses.
Kommissionens godkendelse foregriber imidlertid pa˚ ingen ma˚de dens eventuelle undersøgelse i henhold til statsstøttereglerne af, om den pa˚tænkte støtte fra de franske og italienske myndigheder er lovlig.
The communication also identifies the challenges facing this vast sector and the necessary conditions for increasing productivity and improving the prospectsfor growth.
For at opna˚ tilladelse fra EU har GE bl.a. forpligtet sig til: at afhænde Spacelabs-branchen tilhørende Instrumentarium, at indga˚ en række forsyningsaftaler med køberne samt at
299.A conference on 24 and 25 November on the environmental performance of industry in the European Union was an opportunity to spotlight the past advances in environ-
123 garantere, at det af virksomheden fremstillede anæstesi-, monitorerings- og udstyr for klinisk information vil være kompatibelt med tredjepartsudstyr.
123 mental performance and to examine the potential for future improvements in terms of bothenvironmental performance and competitiveness.
Kommissionens undersøgelse gav anledning til alvorlige betænkeligheder for markedet for bærbare ultralydsapparater til ikke-de- struerende testning, men GE var i stand til at fjerne disse betænkeligheder ved at foresla˚ at afsta˚ datterselskabet, Panametrics’ pa˚gældende aktiviteter.
Furthermore, in order to ensurean optimum balance between environmental considerations and the need to boost thecompetitiveness of the chemicals industry (→ point 311), a thorough analysis was madeof the impact of the new chemicals policy.
Lovgivning.
On 11 March (
Kommissionen foreslog den 29. oktober (5) at forlænge overgangsordningen i de multisektorale rammebestemmelser frem til 2006, da der ikke er na˚et til enighed om listen over de mest følsomme sektorer.
European innovation policy, such as the persistently inadequate performance of the European Union as a whole and the implications of enlargement, and suggests new directionsfor policy development.
Pa˚ denne baggrund foreslog Kommissionen ogsa˚, at anvendelsen af de eksisterende regionale støtteordninger pa˚ skibsbygningsindustrien anmeldes fra den 1. januar 2004.
On 13 May (8) the Council welcomed the Commission’s inten- tions and called on it and the current and future Member States to take a number of initiatives in this field.
Kommissionen har endvidere indledt en høring af medlemsstaterne med henblik pa˚ en forenkling af procedurerne for at lette samarbejdet med medlemsstaterne i forbindelse med anmeldelsen af statsstøtte og deres forpligtelser til at oplyse om støtte tildelt under gruppefritagelsesforordningerne.
The Commission communication was also welcomed by the European Economic and Social Committee on 25 September (9). On 27 November the Commission presented the 2003 edition of the ‘Innovation scoreboard’, which analyses performance in
Endvidere videreførtes det lovgivningsmæssige arbejde med henblik pa˚ beskyttelse mod visse former for illoyal praksis inden for luftfartsydelser fra tredjelande (R nr. 705).
An invitation to tender (2) was published for five stud- ies to examine the trends in and scope of innovation in specific areas of interest to politicalauthorities and operators, such as public supply contracts.
Generelle regler
Innovation networks
Landbrug og fiskeri. Den 19. februar (3) forelagde Kommissionen — i overensstemmelse med ma˚lsætningen om modernisering og forenkling af reglerne for stats- støtte som fastlagt i 1998 (4) — udkastet til den forordning, den agter at vedtage for at give medlemsstaterne mulighed for at yde visse former for statsstøtte uden forudga˚ende godkendelse, sa˚som støtte til dækning af udgifter i forbindelse med bevarelse af traditionelle landskaber og bygninger eller etableringsstøtte til unge. Kommissionen
303.The call for proposals for the creation of the new network of ‘Innovation relaycentres’ under the sixth framework research programme (→ points 340–342), which waslaunched in April, led to the selection of 71 proposals to be the subject of negotiations.Similarly, an invitation to tender for the creation of the two secretariats of the ‘Innovationrelay centres’ and ‘Innovating regions in Europe’ networks was launched in June.
5) en høring med henblik pa˚ en fremtidig for- iværksatte endvidere den 4. november ( ordning, hvorefter en stor del af støtten til fiskerisektoren fremover kan tildeles af medlemsstaterne uden Kommissionens forudga˚ende godkendelse.
304.CORDIS service (5). The CORDIS service has developed to meet the needs of thepotential participants or beneficiaries of the sixth framework programme for research(→ point 4.8).
Forskning og udvikling. Kommissionen godkendte den 10. december i princippet en ændring af gruppefritagelsesforordningerne for støtte til uddannelse (6) og støtte
Promoting entrepreneurship (6
Internationalt samarbejde (2
Support for access to financing (2
USA og Canada.
), the Commission presented its annual report (
Kommissionen fremlagde den 13. august en beretning for 2002 om gennemførelsen af aftalerne med hvert af disse to lande om anvendelsen af de respektive konkurrenceregler (3).
It particularlywelcomed the progress made, despite a difficult year, in the European risk-capital sector.On 1 December (5) the Commission adopted a communication on the access to finance ofsmall and mediumsized enterprises in which it recommends in particular that new operations by public authorities at European, national and regional levels should concentrate onthree aspects: improving the framework conditions for finance, the provision of finance atan early stage, and increasing companies’ equity.
Forrige beretning: KOM(2002) 505 og den almindelige beretning 2002, nr. 247.
Previous report: COM(2002) 345; 2002 General Report, point 269.COM(2003) 713; Bull.
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Chemicals (
Afsnit 7
On 7 May (
Ra˚det anbefalede i sine konklusioner af 3. marts ( tegi for politikken til gavn for iværksætterkulturen. Kommissionens initiativ blev hilst velkommen af Regionsudvalget den 2. juli (2), Det Europæiske Økonomiske og Sociale Udvalg den 24. september (3) og af Europa-Parlamentet den 23. oktober (4).
On 12 May the Commission adopted a proposal to codify Council Directive 73/23/EEC on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits (Table I).
I meddelelsen fastsættes en række vigtige hasteaktioner, som Europa-Parlamentet, Ra˚det og Kommissionens selv skal iværksætte.
It stressed that the aerospace industry had a major role to play in achieving Europe’s economic and strategic objectives and that it was essential to strengthen the European framework in such key areas as defence, space and research.
Desuden vil Kommissionen gerne indføre et system til effektiv evaluering af de økonomiske, social- og miljømæssige virkninger af sine forslag.
316.Defence. On 11 March the Commission adopted a communication on industrial andmarket issues relating to defence (10) in which it stressed the need for the European Union to develop a defence equipment policy.
Ved samme lejlighed afgav Kommissionen sit foreløbige svar pa˚ spørgsma˚let om tilbagegangen inden for industrien.
With this in mind the Commission presented anumber of initiatives aimed at strengthening the industrial and technological base of thedefence sector in Europe, supporting the creation of an internationally competitive European market in defence equipment and promoting research activities to meet future needswith regard to defence and security.
Denne meddelelse blev positivt modtaget af Ra˚det den
In this connection the Council gave further impetus tothe development of a policy in this field when it decided to set up in 2004 a European
2) EUT C 256 af 24.10.2003 og Bull. 7/8-2003, punkt 1.3.92.
1/2-2003, point 1.3.121.¥4∂COM(2001) 666; 2001 General Report, point 174.¥5∂OJ C53 E, 28.2.2002; 2001 General Report, point 749.¥6∂Bull.
3) EUT C 10 af 14.1.2004 og Bull. 9-2003, punkt 1.3.40. 4) Bull. 10-2003, punkt 1.3.60.
7/8-2003, point 1.3.105.¥8∂Bull.
2) positivt modtaget af Ra˚det, der især stripolitik i et udvidet EU ( fremhævede det store bidrag, som industrien yder til konkurrenceevnen, og det opfordrede de nuværende og kommende medlemsstater og Kommissionen til regelmæssigt at udveksle oplysninger om dette spørgsma˚l. Det Europæiske Økonomiske og Sociale Udvalg (3) afgav den 17. juli udtalelse om Kommissionens meddelelse, og Regionsud-
In a communication of 1 July on a stronger European-basedpharmaceutical industry (4), the Commission proposed action centred on five themes: genuine benefits to patients; developing a competitive Europe-based industry; strengthening the European Union science base; medicines in an enlarged European Union; and Member States learning from each other with a view to guaranteed use of European indicators.
25. september (6) status over forløbet af de industrielle omstillinger, og afstak retningslinjer herfor. Det Europæiske Ra˚d opfordrede den 16. og 17. oktober (7) Ra˚det og
With regard to legislation, work continued with a view to the adoption of a ‘package’ torevise the legislation applying to medicinal products for human or veterinary use, including the creation of a European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, and thatapplying to traditional herbal medicinal products.
8), at den horisontale strategi for industri- nen fandt i en meddelelse af 21. november ( politikken burde suppleres med strategier for enkeltsektorer, som f.eks. »LeaderSHIP 2015«-initiativet inden for skibsbygning, der er en sektor af stor strategisk betydning.
In December the European Parliament agreed to acompromise negotiated with the Council on these various proposals.
Kommissionen definerede i sin henstilling 2003/361/EF af 6. maj (9), hvad der forsta˚s ved mikrovirksomheder, sma˚ og mellemstore virksomheder i EU-politikken, og den fastsatte tærsklerne for sondringen mellem dem.
On 29 October the Commission adopted a communicationon the future of the textiles and clothing sector in the enlarged European Union (6), covering a wide range of fields, policies and instruments that have an impact on thecompetitiveness of this sector.
Erhvervspolitikkens eksterne aspekter
321.Recreational craft.
Kommissionen redegjorde i en meddelelse af 19. maj for, hvorledes den i fremtiden pa˚tænker at støtte erhvervsudviklingen i tredjelande (R nr. 824).
On 14 July the Commission adopteda proposal for a directive which constitutes the second stage of the recasting of Directive70/156/EEC (3) on the typeapproval of motor vehicles and their trailers (Table I).
Det indre markeds funktion, lovgivningspolitik, standardisering, vurdering af indvirkningen
Commission proposed codifying Council Directives 93/32/EEC (4) on passenger handholds on two-wheel motor vehicles (Table I) and 93/31/EEC (4) on stands for two-wheel motor vehicles (Table I).
Det indre markeds funktion. Kommissionen modtog i 2003 i medfør at direktiv 98/34/EF om en informationsprocedure med hensyn til tekniske standarder og forskrifter vedrørende informationssamfundstjenester (1) 486 indberetninger om tekniske for- skrifter (mod 508 i 2002), heraf 20 om forskrifter om informationssamfundstjenester.
With Directive 2003/20/EC of 8 April (Table I), the European Parliament and the Councilextended compulsory seat-belt use to all vehicles in which seats are equipped with seatbelts, and required the use of approved restraint systems adapted to the morphology ofchildren in light vehicles.
Denne udvikling skyldes især fald i indberetningerne inden for sektorerne transport og
On 20 June the Commission adopted three new proposals fordirectives making the installation of seat belts compulsory in all motor vehicles andprohibiting the use of side-facing seats (Table I).
(1) Den almindelige beretning 1998, nr. 158 og http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/tris/index_da.htm (2) Tal pr. 1. januar 2004.
¥4∂ http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/automotive/index.htm.OJ L84, 28.3.1974.OJ L42, 23.2.1970.OJ L188, 29.7.1993.
Yderligere oplysninger om, hvorledes det indre marked fungerer, findes i afsnit 5 (»Det indre marked«) i dette kapitel (R nr. 186).
In addition, on 10 October the Commissionadopted a new proposal for a directive relating to the use of frontal protection systemson motor vehicles, with a view to improving the protection of road users in the event ofa collision (Table I).
Lovgivningspolitik.
323.Food industry.
Der findes en række oplysninger herom i afsnit 6 (»Bedre og enklere lovgivningsmæssige rammer«) i kapitel I (R nr. 28-30) og i afsnit 5 (»Det indre marked«) i nærværende kapitel (R nr. 182).
Further information ontrade in these products can be found in particular in Section 5 (‘Pre-accession strategy’) of Chapter II (→ point 59).
Kommissionen fremlagde i sin meddelelse af 7. maj (1) sine overvejelser med henblik pa˚ at forbedre iværksættelsen af direktiverne om »den nye metode« (2).
In a resolution of 12 February (2), the European Parliamentwelcomed the Commission communication of 29 November 2001 on the impact of the e-
Ra˚det tilsluttede sig i en beslutning af 10. november (3) anbefalingerne og ma˚lene i Kommissionens meddelelse.
3 economy on European enterprises (
Det bebudedes ogsa˚, at de ikke-statslige organisationer skal involveres mere i standardiseringsprocessen. Der er desuden i samarbejde med CEN-CENELEC-ETSI udarbejdet nye rammekonventioner for finansielt partnerskab for perioden 20042007.
), drawing conclusions from the ‘Go Digital’ (5) initiative, the Commission stressed the shift from promoting ecommerce to a more holistic view of e-business, involving the restructuring of businessprocesses to make best use of digital technologies.
Forma˚let hermed er, at Kommissionen skal kunne finansiere specifikke tiltag til standardisering til støtte for forskellige EU-politikker (det indre marked, tjenesteydelser, transport og energi, miljø, informationsteknologi, sikkerhed og retsvæsen, forbrugerbeskyttelse).
It encouraged the Member States andthe regions to review their ebusiness strategies in support of small and medium-sizedenterprises (SMEs), setting new and more innovative targets in the context of changing ebusiness activities.
De europæiske standardiseringsorganer fik overdraget flere standardiseringsmandater med henblik pa˚ igangsættelse af standardisering, især inden for miljø og tjenester.
On 13 May (6) this communication was welcomed by the Council, which called on the Commission and the current and future Member States to set up a
(6) Den almindelige beretning 2000, nr. 258 og http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/charter/index.htm
Previous report: COM(2001) 507; 2001 General Report, point 423.COM(2003) 716; Bull.
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Kommissionen analyserer disse tjenesters rolle, der falder inden for fire omra˚der: generelle tjenester, aktiviteter inden for handel og distribution, nettjenester og finansielle tjenester.
The sixth framework programme, which has a budget of EUR 17.5 billion for the period 2002–06, is helping to make a reality of the Europeanresearch area.