Examples of using An across-the-board in English and their translations into Finnish
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Rather, it is an across-the-board reduction in aid which I cannot support.
There are still too few countries where equal opportunities are deemed to be an across-the-board principle to be applied in all policy areas.
Aid for flour has produced an across-the-board fall in prices, even for non-subsidised quantities, through competition between distributors in the sector.
It is therefore absolutely unacceptable that it should now attempt to blindly implement an across-the-board reduction in assistance for fleet restructuring and renewal.
Since communication is an across-the-board challenge, all actors- from the European institutions and Member States to civil society and the media- have a role to play.
The Council decided at the first reading to finance an across-the-board cut in the appropriations for external action.
An across-the-board cut with the lawnmower is indefensible and, therefore, we must and will fight it and we will cite Category 4 as part of the interinstitutional agreement.
On the one hand, the Council continues to apply an across-the-board approach, of which the Parliament has always been critical.
Where there was an imminent deficit in the agriculture budget(initially because of the BSE crisis)the Commission immediately resorted to this budget item and proposed an across-the-board reduction of 7% in expenditure.
However, we consider that it would be difficult to make an across-the-board judgement regarding Article 9 of the Cotonou Agreement.
I do not believe that an across-the-board reduction in working time is the answer where traffic safety is concerned. Instead, the hours that people work at a stretch should be reduced and regular rest periods introduced.
The next example relates to the strategicapproach to this issue, in which we argue for an across-the-board Europe-wide reduction target for the use of plant protection products.
Concerning payment appropriations, an across-the-board reduction of EUR 138 million has been applied for the budget lines concerning Community initiatives, due to the under-implementation of corresponding budget headings in previous years.
In the report we uphold the need to prioritise the revival of a policy of investment instead of an across-the-board reduction in the tax burden, except for further exemption from labour costs.
Making the urban dimension an across-the-board policy in a context of budget savings might pit objectives in competition with one another and this may jeopardise support for the least favoured regions.
The debate in committee and also within the groups themselves was not lacking in disagreements,sometimes lively, which are typical of an across-the-board confrontation that transcends the respective political positions.
Hezbollah has many parliamentarians and civil activists, and an across-the-board fight against all parts of the organisation will not solve the complex situation involving its status in Lebanon.
In turn, the principles set out in the Governance White Paper should underpin any future application of the OMC in the context of creating an across-the-board process for social protection.
Together with the Member States, we have adopted an across-the-board approach based in the first place on vehicle quality.
I really believe that if we, as the European Parliament and the European Union,want to have an influence in this specific matter then having an across-the-board agreement on the principles of such a position is very important.
It drew attention to the problems of compatibility that such an across-the-board, indistinct and unlimited application of national requirements would raise for the free movement of services.
What we wanted to do was to define an across-the-board negotiating position on the basis of an in-depth analysis of the political and economic challenges of an enlarged EU, as documented in the June resolution, with internal and external priorities, modernised budget structures and better-quality budget management.
The main priority must be to fight international terrorism by means of an across-the-board anti-terrorist strategy, at both EU Member State level and on a worldwide scale.
Amendments 16, 17, 18 and 19, 20, 21, 22 and 38 insert an across-the-board reserved area weight limit of 150 grams and four times the first class tariff which would open only 6% of universal service providers' postal revenues compared with 20% in the proposal.
If the Council has not found any other way of financing the reconstruction of Kosovo other than an across-the-board cut in the external activities of the Union, it is logical that the European Parliament will want to defend those lines.
With regard to these regions, we must implement an across-the-board policy, designed to encourage and promote these destinations, the greater part of whose economic activity consists of tourism, and thus encourage the development of an essential transport network servicing these isolated regions.
While caution must be exercised when interpreting results, an across-the-board tax cut of 1% of GDP could increase employment by some¾ of a million jobs.
What we are about to approve at second reading is an across-the-board system of recognition, according to the recognition mechanism referred to by the Court of Justice in the Glassopoulo ruling.
This is why, on behalf of the Group of Independents for a Europe of Nations,I participated in the tabling of amendments on an across-the-board increase in institutional prices and aid of 1.9%. The aim of these amendments is to compensate for the effects of inflation and of the green ecu being abolished from 1 January 1999.
Let us begin with early detection: the development of an across-the-board breast screening programme according to EU guidelines will involve a one-off cost for the public purse of no more than EUR 1.25 per citizen.