Examples of using Foreigncontrolled in English and their translations into German
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Based on estimates for foreigncontrolled enterprises.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises were most important within the manufacturing sector, where they accounted for 26% of the value added and 19% of total employment.
Table 9 shows thatmore than twothirds of the value added generated by foreigncontrolled enterprises was generated by the top five controlling countries.
This suggests that foreigncontrolled enterprises are considerably larger than their nationallycontrolled counterparts.
Between 9.2% and 19.8% of value addedin Denmark, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland and Sweden was generated by foreigncontrolled enterprises.
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Nationallycontrolled enterprises had a higher investment rate(gross investment in tangible goods in value added);investment per person employed is higher for foreigncontrolled enterprises in manufacturing industries.
Table 4 shows the distribution of foreigncontrolled enterprise activity between manufacturing industries and the service sector.
Figure 7: Relative contribution of intra-and extra-EU-25 controlled enterprises to total value added of all foreigncontrolled enterprises, nonfinancial business economy, 2003(%) 1.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises contributed 18% of the value added generated in the non-financial business economy(NACE Sections C to I and K) among the 17 Member States with data available.
Figure 8:Share of total value added generated by nationallycontrolled and foreigncontrolled enterprises, breakdown by country origin, average of all reporting countries.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises contributed 18.2% of the value added generated in the non-financial business economies of the 17 Member States for which data are available.
In Finland and Denmark,NACE Section G was the most attractive activity for foreigncontrolled enterprises, contributing 21.2% and 13.1% respectively to total value added.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises also reported a higher ratio of investment in tangible goods and services per person employed(EUR 9 200) compared with the average for all enterprises EUR 6 300.
Figure 4 confirms that around 50% of the economic activity of foreigncontrolled enterprises(within the non-financial business economy) was concentrated in the industrial economy.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises were responsible for 18% of the value added generated in the nonfinancial business economy in 2003, although they accounted for less than 1% of the total number of enterprises.
THE AIM OF STATISTICS ON FOREIGN-CONTROLLED ENTERPRISES The objective of statistics on the structure and activity of foreigncontrolled enterprises(inward FATS) is to provide a basis for assessing the impact of foreigncontrolled enterprises on the European economy.
Foreigncontrolled industrial enterprises contributed around 60% of total industrial value added in Slovakia, and also accounted for a majority(around 53%) of the value added generated by Hungarian industry see Figure 5.
Some of these factors may explain the high proportion of controlling interest residing with EU-25 Member States,as an average of 63.2% of the value added generated by foreigncontrolled enterprises in the non-financial business economy was derived from enterprises whose ultimate control resided in another Member State; shares rose to over 75% in Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Portugal, falling to 51.1% in the Netherlands Figure 7.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises generated a high turnover and gross operating surplus per person employed in most of the participating countries, but operating profitability was often below that of nationallycontrolled enterprises.
Figure 10: Indices of selected measures for foreigncontrolled enterprises, nonfinancial business economy, average of all reporting countries, 2003 total of all enterprises 100.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises generated an average of EUR 51 800 of value added per person employed across the non-financial business economy, which was EUR 16 800 per person employed more than for nationallycontrolled enterprises.
Table 9: Share of value added generated by foreigncontrolled enterprises in manufacturing(NACE section D) by level of technological intensity and in hightech and knowledgeintensive services in eight Member States.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises contributed significant shares of total value added within the nonfinancial business economies of several of the Member States that joined the EU in 2004, including Estonia(40.8%), Hungary(37.3%), Slovakia(32.1%) and the Czech Republic 31.2.
More than 60% of the value added generated by foreigncontrolled enterprises could be attributed to enterprises in other Member States, with Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands the largest contributors.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises are considerably larger than nationallycontrolled enterprises, regardless of the comparison ratio used e.g. number of persons employed, average value added or average turnover per enterprise.
Further information on the importance of foreigncontrolled enterprises in the European Union is provided in Statistics in Focus,“Characteristics of foreigncontrolled enterprises”, to be issued in spring 2004.
Foreigncontrolled enterprises generated an average of EUR 45 500 of value added per person employed across those countries which participated in the data collection exercise(excluding Denmark), compared with an average of EUR 27 500 of value added per person employed for nationallycontrolled enterprises.
Apparent labour productivity among foreigncontrolled enterprises was 3.2 times as high as for nationallycontrolled enterprises in Hungary, a ratio that fell to 1.3 times as high in Sweden Figure 9.
Indeed, Tables 46 show that foreigncontrolled enterprises generally have higher average personnel costs per employee in all countries registering higher apparent labour productivity.