Achieving this objective will involve long-term integrated strategies that focus simultaneously, in affected areas, on improved productivity of land, and the rehabilitation, conservation and sustainable management of land and water resources, leading to improved living conditions, in particular at the community level.

Recognizing the important contribution that international standards and conformity assessment systems can make in this regard by improving efficiency of production and facilitating the conduct of international trade;

If this is not the case, consideration will be given to possible improvements, including, in the light of the availability of adequate data, the adoption of a criterion based on the ratio of exports affected by the concession to exports to all markets of the product in question.

This cooperation may include the exchange of information on legislative work and institutional reform, the establishment of permanent systems of mutual information on dangerous products, the improvement of information provided to consumers, especially on prices, characteristics of products and services offered, the development of exchanges between consumer interest representatives, and increasing the compatibility of consumer protection policies, and the organisation of seminars and training periods.

measures in support of the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant; measures for the environmental upgrading in line with the acquis and modernisation measures of conventional production capacity to replace the production capacity of the two Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant reactors; and other measures which are consequential to the decision to close and decommission this plant and which contribute to the necessary restructuring, environmental upgrading and modernisation of the energy production, transmission and distribution sectors in Lithuania as well as to enhancing the security of energy supply and improving energy efficiency in Lithuania.

The purpose of cooperation in this area shall be the pursuit of agrarian reform and the reform of agricultural structures, the modernisation, privatisation and restructuring of agriculture, stock farming and the agro-industrial and services sectors in the Republic of Tajikistan, and the development of domestic and foreign markets for Tajik products, in conditions that ensure the protection of the environment, taking into account the necessity to improve security of food supply and to develop agri-business and the processing and distribution of agricultural products.

This type of control would improve product quality and forming efficiency in a single operation.

This Regulation lays down measures for improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products.

To improve the readability of the Act as amended by this Decision, its provisions should be renumbered, thus producing a clearer consolidated text,

This includes tangible and intangible fixed assets, major improvements to non-produced assets and the costs associated with the transfer of ownership.

This should include those producer organisations whose original improvement plans expired in 2000 and which were extended under Regulation (EC) No 558/2001.

This Regulation should not exempt technology transfer agreements containing restrictions which are not indispensable to the improvement of production or distribution.

The amount withheld from production aid for this olive oil marketing year serves as the basis for financing measures to improve the quality of oil during the production cycle commencing on 1 May 2004.

List of third countries from which Member States may authorise imports of bones and bone products (excluding bonemeal), horns and horn products (excluding horn meal) and hooves and hoof products (excluding hoof meal) intended for use other than as feed material, organic fertilisers or soil improvers (declaration Chapter 16)

In order to deal with the economic situation in the hazelnut sector, flat-rate aid should be granted for hazelnuts harvested in the 2001/2002 marketing year, for those producer organisations not eligible for an extension to improvement plans under this Regulation,

whereas the common organisation of the markets should not make any basic changes in this situation but should contribute by appropriate measures to the improvement of the quality of the products and protect the producers from any lowering of their present standards of living;

A market failure may manifest itself either in the inability of the system to produce goods which are wanted (in this case a risk capital market), or by a misallocation of resources, which could be improved in such a way that some consumers would be better off and none worse off.

taking account of, in particular, the invironmental impact of the type of production concerned, the environmental sensitivity of the land used for rearing cattle and the measures which have been implemented with a view to stabilise or improve the environmental situation of this land.

and other measures which are consequential to the decision to close and decommission this plant and which contribute to the necessary restructuring, environmental upgrading and modernisation of the energy production, transmission and distribution sectors in Lithuania as well as to enhancing the security of energy supply and improving energy efficiency in Lithuania.

upon request, providing technical and scientific support in order to improve cooperation between the Community, its Member States, international organisations and third countries on scientific and technical issues relating to the evaluation of medicinal products, in particular in the context of discussions organised in the framework of international conferences on harmonisation;

This Regulation shall be applied without prejudice to the provisions adopted or to be adopted with a view to approximating the provisions which have been laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States and which are designed to maintain or improve the technical or genetic level of production of certain products covered by Article 1 and intended specifically for reproduction.

Recognised producer organisations engaged in the production and marketing of nuts and/or locust beans and receiving aid pursuant to Title IIa of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, whose quality and marketing improvement plans were approved in 1990 or 1991, or which contain areas approved in 1990 or 1991, may request the continuation of that aid for these areas for a further period of up to one year subject to the rules laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of this Regulation.

For hazelnuts harvested during the 2001/2002 marketing year, aid of EUR 15/100 kg shall be granted to producer organisations, recognised pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 or to this Regulation, which implement a quality improvement plan within the meaning of Article 14d of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 or an operational programme within the meaning of Article 15, and do not benefit from the aid provided for in Articles 1 and 2 of Regulation (EC) No 545/2002."

Member States shall pay the compensation to producer organisations within four months of the end of the year for which it is granted, in so far as their competent authorities have checked that the recipient organisations have fulfilled the obligations imposed on them under Article 9. 4. Detailed rules for the application of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 38(2). Article 11 Member States may grant additional aids to producer organisations which, within the framework of operational programmes mentioned in Article 9(1) develop measures for improving the organisation and the functioning of the marketing of fish as well as measures allowing for a better balance of supply and demand, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999, and in particular, its Articles 14 and 15.

The industry has made considerable efforts to improve its efficiency and productivity in recent years in an attempt to lower its production costs and improve quality and competitiveness in this price-sensitive market.

This programme shall include incentives to improve the conditions in which pineapple is produced, marketed and processed, to restructure and improve the competitiveness of the sector, and to ensure the survival of small farms.

if seeds produced in Member States and seeds of the same variety and category produced in third countries are blended in order to improve the germination capacity, provided that:

However, this trend should also be seen in the light of the efforts made by the Community industry in order to improve its efficiency and to reduce its cost of production.

Concerning the general claim for non-specificity, as in the case of Article 25, this scheme is available only to those firms which invest in productivity-improving equipment.

An improvement to this simple method would be to add product detail, preferably by calculating trade margins in constant prices within the detailed framework of supply and use tables.

The objective of this Agreement shall be to strengthen the free-trade relations between the Parties by improving the access of each to the market in agricultural products of the other.

This Regulation specifies the measures to be undertaken and procedures to be followed to improve the quality of olive oil production at regional level and its impact on the environment.

In this respect, the increase in its volume of sales in the Community and thus its production, will allow the Community industry to decrease its unit costs, thus improving profitability.

This Regulation seeks to remedy the handicaps due to the remote and insular nature of the FOD and to improve the conditions under which their agricultural products are produced and marketed.

These improved protective measures should include the use of a plant passport for plants or plant products originating in the Community and a phytosanitary certificate for plants or plant products originating in third countries.

This Regulation specifies the measures to be undertaken and procedures to be followed to improve the quality of olive oil and table olive production at regional level and its impact on the environment.";

In this respect, although a slight improvement occurred between 2000 and the IP, it is far from a 25 % improvement as claimed by the exporting producer and in addition it should be pointed out that the figures from both investigations are not comparable, since the definition of the Community industry is not the same in these investigations.

each producers' organization in receipt of this aid has presented a quality and marketing improvement plan, incorporating any changes requested by the Commission, approved by the competent national authority, and

The Community industry has been making considerable efforts to improve its productivity in recent years, in an attempt to lower its cost of production and to enhance its competitiveness in this price sensitive market.

To this end could be used in particular statistics of slaughterings, improved production forecasting models, better use of the statistical series on livestock (break-down and analysis by size and by category, etc.), etc.

It happened that while the decreasing trend of certain injury indicators was aggravated by this relocation (i.e. production, production capacity and sales volume), the trend of the capacity utilisation and of the average sales prices improved, leading to a limitation of losses.

Applying this standard should result in products of unsatisfactory quality being removed from the market, bringing production into line with consumer requirements and facilitating trade relationships based on fair competition, thereby helping to improve the profitability of production.

Since live animals are listed in Annex I of the Treaty, one of the Community's tasks in the veterinary field is to improve the state of health of pigs, thereby facilitating trade in pig and pig products to ensure the development of this sector.

(a) it relates to the industrial application of innovative products and processes, i.e. technologically new or substantially improved products and processes compared to the state of the art existing in this industry in the Community, which carry a risk of technological or industrial failure;

Considering that their R&D facilities as well as the manufacturing facilities for the main part of the components of the TCS were located in Japan, this would result in an improvement of the economies of scales of the Japanese exporting producers.

The Commission shall regularly evaluate operations financed by the Community under this Regulation in order to establish whether they have achieved their objectives and to produce guidelines for improving the effectiveness of subsequent operations.