Examples of using Horizontal objectives in English and their translations into Danish
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Industry/services: Horizontal objectives.
Horizontal objectives- building conditions for full employment in a knowledgebased society.
They particularly advocate redeploying aid towards the horizontal objectives.
These measures are supplemented by horizontal objectives 3 and 4 and Community initiative programmes.
In this context, the opportunity for recourse to state aid in order to achieve these horizontal objectives should be reiterated.
Aid was mainly directed towards horizontal objectives of common interest(on average 88%), of which regional aid, research and development and environmental aid represented around two thirds whereas rescue and restructuring aid fell.
To these forms of aid must be added appropriations under the horizontal objectives and Community initiative programmes.
Another point of agreement of great political importance concerns the factthat state aid should, as laid down by the Treaty, focus on horizontal objectives.
There was also a promise to redirect state aid to horizontal objectives that benefited the Union as a whole.
Thirdly, we will not single out the Commission for specific criticism over underspending orfor its failure to address the horizontal objectives sufficiently.
The intention is also to replace the current system of regional objectives with a programme of horizontal objectives, and to implement a mandate for relations with countries such as Iceland, Libya, Iraq and Cambodia.
Industry/Services(Horizontal objectives) Research and Development Environment Small and Medium Enterprises Trade/Export Energy saving General Investment Combat unemployment see point 14 of Training Aid this annex Other objectives. .
It could make a more indirect andless system atic contribution under the horizontal objectives 3, 4 and, in particular, 5a.
IX shows that aids to manufacturing having horizontal objectives(i.e. no special sectoral or regional objective) are the most important schemes at the level of the Community(41%) and are particularly important in Belgium(70%), Denmark(92%), France 51.
If economic growth is to be sustainable,environmental considerations have to be one of the horizontal objectives of the OP from the start.
Although it is undeniable that aids for such horizontal objectives are in most cases in the Community interest, they present, nevertheless, the drawback that their impact on competition is often difficult to assess because little or no information is available about their sectorial and regional repercussions.
Member States should pursue their efforts to reduce the overall level of State aid, in particular ad hoc aid,and redirect it towards horizontal objectives of com mon interest including economic and social cohesion.
State Aid to the manufacturing sector was distributed as follows: 30% for horizontal objectives(i.e. R& D, environment, SMEs, trade, energy saving etc.), 13% for shipbuilding, steel and other sectors, and 56% for regional objectives; aid for horizontal objectives has fallen from 40% of overall aid in 1988-90(for the EUR12) to around 30% in 1994-96(for the EUR 15) while sectorspecific interventions have risen slightly;this trend should be reversed as sectorial objectives have the potential to create even greater distortive effects than horizontal objectives;
The Barcelona Council of March 2002 confirmed this intention,calling on Member States to redirect such aid towards horizontal objectives of common interest, including economic and social cohesion, and target it to identified market failures.
The current system, relying on Member States' numerous overlapping, and sometimes conflicting, bilateral investment agreements,should be replaced within a reasonable timeframe by a new framework of European Union investment agreements consistent with the horizontal objectives of EU policies.
In this respect, while reforming the programmes andthe instruments for the next programming period, we should bring forward without distorting the markets the horizontal objectives of the Union such as gender equality, environmental protection, protection of the disabled, the sharing of best practice, the promotion of lasting quality employment and economic growth.
I have repeatedly said that Member State development, supported by European Union money, and improving quality of life would be more effective if we used the planning method more efficiently and ensured that horizontal objectives are achieved using money from different funds.
In the specific context that led to the drafting of this report,I welcome the clear reduction in State aid granted and its redirection towards horizontal objectives, such as SMEs, the environment, R&D, employment and training, which fall beyond the strict remit of economic efficiency, but promote the better preparation of economic actors and Member States for the internal market.
This should include identifying areas where further action is required by Member Siates to rationalise the transposition of Com munity legislation into national law; D to further their efforts to promote competition and reduce the general level of State aids, shifting the em phasis from supporting individual companies orsectors towards tackling horizontal objectives of Community interest, such as employment, regional development, environment and training or research.
In line with the policy objectives of the European Council the Member Stateshave to continue their efforts to reduce aid levels, in GDP percentage terms,while redirecting aidtowards horizontal objectives of Communityinterest, such as the strengthening of economicand social cohesion, employment, environmentalprotection, promotion of R& D and developmentof SMEs. The amount of aid awarded shouldremain in proportion to its objectives. .
Following a thorough review of the 1999 rescue and restructuring guidelines(187), the Commission adopted on 7 July new Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring rms in di culty(188) aiming at a closer scrutiny of State aid for rescue and restructuring, as prompted by the conclusions of the European Councils of Stockholm in 2001 and Barcelona in 2002,which requested a reduction of the overall amount of State aid and its redirection towards horizontal objectives.
Parliament and the Council have repeatedly and rightly insisted that the overall amount of State aids must be reduced and that, at the same time,State aids must be geared more to supporting horizontal objectives than to supporting, often artificially, specific sectors or single undertakings.
As regards the development over time of the distribution of the manufacturing sector aid amongst the different main objectives, it can be seen from Table 9 that at the level of the EUR 12,aid for horizontal objectives has fallen from 40% in 1988-90(see Fourth Survey on State aid in the European Union) to 35% in 1990-92(see Fifth Survey on State aid in the European Union), and 31% in 1992-94, and then stabilised, for EUR 15, at around 30% in 1994-1996.
We would like to see such a comparison made in the short term because this is the only way in which an informedoverall study can be undertaken so that decisions can be taken on the level of aid granted and/or its possible refocusing towards horizontal objectives of common interest, such as research and development, the environment, SMEs, training and employment.
Given Norway's economic situation and labour market, as compared to those of the Member States,any aid which might be granted by the European Social Fund under horizontal Objectives 3 and 4, which are at present aimed respectively at fighting longterm unemployment and facilitating the occupational integration of young people, would be limited.
