Examples of using Union average in English and their translations into Danish
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Some of them barely reach 35% of the Union average.
Total per capita GDP in the CEEC was only 40% of the Union average in 1997 and there are major regional imbalances between urban and western regions, where prosperity is increasing, and other regions, which are much poorer and often rural.
These regions have GDP per head in the range 71% to 75% of the Union average.
They are all regions where GDP per head is very much less than the Union average and which are eligible under Objective 1 for Structural Funds support.
For instance, Lithuania's GDP per capita remains low when we joined the EU,it was 48% of the Union average.
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In a Union of 25 the regions whose per capita GDP is less than 75% of the Union average(threshold for Objective 1) will have a population of 115 million, 25% of the total.
Poland is no exception,although women's participation in the labour market in Poland remains below the Union average.
At the same time,while there are numerous examples of regions in which productivity has increased by much more than the Union average since 1988, there are no cases where the employment rate has risen significantly without an accompanying high growth in productivity.
This may appear unfair competition butit is necessary to bring the less well off regions up to a Union average.
In this case, there is a marked variation between Member States, the Union average being boosted by relatively high numbers in two of the larger coun tries, Germany and the UK, whereas in all but these two countries and Denmark, the proportion was under 20.
Thus it can happen that Ireland is still an Objective 1 region in 1999,the criterion for which is a GDP of less than 75% of the Union average.
In all of these apart from Ireland,the numbers employed also increased by more than the Union average- by over 3% a year in both Spain and Luxembourg.
The new Objective 1 will aim to help the EU's less developed regions whose per capita Gross Domestic Product(GDP)is less than 75% of the Union average.
In two other countries, the UK and Finland,GDP also rose by more than the Union average, but whereas in the UK employment also went up by more than elsewhere, in Finland as in Ireland, the numbers employed rose by relatively little- in this case, by under 72% a year.
In Greece, Spain and Portugal the employment rate is still below the 70% EU target andlabour productivity is below the Union average.
It further considers that the four current beneficiaries(Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal),i.e. Member States with a per capita GNP of less than 90% of the Union average and implementing a programme for economic convergence, should continue to be eligible for the Fund in the year 2000.
Generally, the country has experienced Impressive growth In recent years, so much so thatIts per capita gross domestic product(GDP) is now well above 90% of the Union average.
The fact that the level of funding commitments and payments to Finland andSweden is still below the Union average is not unrelated to the learning process that we are jointly engaged in- a fruitful process, I might add, and one that is steering us towards closer partnership.
In the three least prosperous Member States(Greece, Spain, Portugal), per capita income has risen from 68% of the Union average in 1988 to 79% in 1999.
Similarly, in Sweden and Finland,where the overall provision is well below the Union average, it is well above this average in the Stockholm region(172% of average) and in Uusimaa, where Helsinki is situated(122%), whereas in no Northern region does the figure exceed 20% of the average. .
Before the end of 2003 the eligibility of the four countries under the Fund will be reviewed in light of the per capita GNP criterion of less than 90% of the Union average.
The Member States agree that the Cohesion Fund shall provide Union financial contributions to projects in the fields of environment andtrans-European networks in Member States with a per capita GNP of less than 90% of the Union average which have a programme leading to the fulfilment of the conditions of economic convergence as set out in Article III-184 of the Constitution.5.
This approach, which is exceptional for Objective 2, takes account of the weaknesses in these two fields of the declining industrial areas of Spain as compared with the Union average.
AGREE that the Cohesion Fund will provide Union financial contributions to projects in the fields of environment andtrans-European networks in Member States with a per capita GNP of less than 90% of the Union average which have a programme leading to the fulfilment of the conditions of economic convergence as set out in Article 126.
The Cohesion Fund would therefore pursue its co-financing of trans-European transport networks andprojects in the environmental field in Member States with a per capita GNP of less than 90% of the Union average.
In relation to GDP, the scale of Dutch spending was even more striking, amounting to over 7% as compared with a Union average of 2/2% and a figure of only 1'/2% in Ireland and.
This is not the case, however, in the Southern, less developed Member States, where in a number of re gions, the length of the rail network is significantly less than the average for thecountry as a whole, which, in turn, is well below the Union average.
In Italy, on the other hand, expenditure on pensions was higher in relation to GDP than in any other country in the Union(15'/2% as against a Union average of 12%) and in Ireland, sub stantially lower under 6% of GDP.
However, the Commission will, in the future,decide on the eligibility of regions by strict application of the criterion of a per capita GDP that is less than 75% of the Union average.
Progress was even more striking in the Member States eligible under the Cohesion Fund, the"cohesion countries"(Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland),where per capita GDP had risen from 65% of the Union average to 76.5% in the last ten years.