Intrapreneurship: Desarrollando el espíritu emprendedor dentro de la organización (Spanish Edition)

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Multiple actors need to work simultaneously to achieve positive impact on the ecosystem. Unfortunately, the minds of many in the region are still focused on large infrastructure projects, multi-billion dollar financings, debt swaps, etc. As governments approach the topics of innovation and entrepreneurship, their methods often, remain unchanged from such larger scale investments.

As it happens, innovation and entrepreneurship is inherently chaotic, unmanageable and long term. These governments would be well served to focus on enabling policies, levelling the playing field, establishing the right incentives and getting out of the way, leaving the rest to Schumpeter, Smith and the Darwinian market forces. I often address these issues at my conferences as I try to be provocative to the government officials who might be in the audience. A summary of these key points follow below:. On a weekly basis, delegations from the four corners of the world descend onto the Bay Area to learn its most treasured secrets, best practices, and recipes to recreate its success in their own locales.

In fact, I anticipate that the fundamental lessons learned by our visitors to take back home center around three principles:. Drilling deeper into each principle, we can identify specific areas of public policy reforms, cultural changes in society, and institutional adaptations that can together enable entrepreneurs to take risks, unleash creativity, and promote innovation across all sectors of society.

However, it is in the specifics that the best-intentioned changes can result in failure. In fact, Silicon Valley probably could not have recreated itself today, even if we wanted. Instead, The Valley was borne from the aligned self-interest of multiple stakeholders, a favorable geography and climate, and a series of fortunate historical circumstances. Initial progress will be painfully slow and early successes will need to be well-publicized and celebrated.

Unfortunately, the transformation sought by emerging Latin American countries from commodity-based to knowledge and innovation-based economies will take longer than any presidential term to achieve. This transformation will take concerted and sustained effort by multiple stakeholders. Unfortunately, politicians tend to focus on the crisis of the day or the urgency of the moment. However, the initiatives I have discussed will require long-term commitment, over decades, to bear fruit. A successful transformation will create a legacy of sustainable prosperity for future generations, but achieving it will require political, business and civil society leaders to think and commit to a lasting vision.

Are they up for the challenge? While I had written a blog about my dad, I had never written one about my mom. I have often pondered the unfairness in the Christian tradition of the role of women. Yet, when it comes to affection of her children, women have always had an unfair competitive advantage.

The Mother Mary of the Christmas we are about to celebrate, is held as a role model, a beacon of hope or a source of forgiveness. Now, I need to acknowledge her strong character and oversized will as a middle class woman who married my dad and her lifetime companion, by love, in spite of the economic differences. My dad was haunted by the poverty of his youth, while my mom was the infinite source of hope and optimism. It was my mom who had the vision that I could and should go to college and at every turn encouraged me to move on from scholarship to the next and from one job to the next advancement opportunity.

She did suffer immensely over the years our separation living overseas and enjoyed her visits as she could mother me just a bit more! She transformed me from a dreamer to envision the future, stretch reality just an inch of what it was possible and apply myself to reach it! In fact, my parents are now reunited almost to the day of their 68 wedding anniversary. At each one of my departures from home, whether I was leaving for college miles away or off to the other side of the world, each farewell brought tears to her that often I felt were unreasonable as we would meet again in few weeks or I would call her the next day.

Hoy escribo este breve post para compartir la triste noticia de su muerte que ocurrio anoche 23 de Dicciembre, Como resultado de una fractura a la cadera, fue necesario una intervension quirurgica. Gracias por compartir este momento. Hasta siempre amigo, Feliz Navidad y mis mejores deseos en el Ano Nuevo! I returned to San Francisco for two days, at which point I returned to Lima, Peru for three days to join the Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrations organized by Prof.

I was grateful for the opportunity to experience the vitality and progress of these unique Latin American ecosystems and am happy to report that innovation and entrepreneurship is alive and well across Latin America. In this blog, I would like to share my distilled view that resulted from over one dozen conferences delivered and hundreds of conversations with entrepreneurs of all ages and nationalities, university professors, business executives and government officials. I would also like to reflect on what I learned from dozens of pitches for for-profit ventures, social ventures, and innovation challenges.

Here is a summary of my views for you my dear reader:. Most Latin American entrepreneurs have a tendency to think small. Their target market is their city or at most their immediate region. Very seldom on this trip did I hear a pitch that positioned a new Latin American-bred venture globally that sought international markets, technology partners or funding sources.

Creating a start-up it is a risky and challenging endeavor, which reminds me of a saying from my youth: The rewards can be enormously higher! This unwillingness to study the global competitive landscape limits the horizons of their ventures in their immediate locations and is possibly compounded by the discomfort of accessing information in foreign languages English being the dominant one.

Very seldom did I come across a competitive analysis, benchmarking or stakeholder studies that included global players. While we must respect the trade secrets and intellectual property of our competitors, everything that is in the public domain is fair game. Hence, we must leverage, learn, avoid similar mistakes and be ready to explain how we will succeed where others have failed, or improve in our go-to-market strategy, pricing, internal processes or internal culture.

Most Latin American entrepreneurs do not sufficiently leverage technology. Furthermore, there are hosts of technology tools to increase the internal productivity of the team as well as those optimized to enhance the customer experience. Technology is one of the great value creation points of leverage for new Latin American ventures.

We must embrace its use and be aware of the constant disruptions it potentially brings to all human activities. It is in fact one of the greatest insurance policies for our venture to remain current and viable over time. Most Latin American entrepreneurs fail to recognize that they cannot go at it alone. They are neither heroes nor saints willing to endure extraordinary sacrificies. Instead, Latin American entrepreneurs are bright, hard-working human beings that need ALL the help they can get.

Therefore, it is essential that they share their vision with other like-minded individuals they trust, form coalitions and a broad network of supporters, and tap hard into their respective ecosystems. It is also important that these entrepreneurs align all the tangible and intangible resources they can get during the bootstrapping period. Therefore, Latin American entrepreneurs should get their pilot MVPs minimum viable products into the hands of their customers fast, get their feedback to their respective teams and iterate quickly until they get it right! They have developed great visions, identified compelling value propositions, built great teams, and demonstrated stratospheric levels of energy, passion, and commitment.

All this is wonderful, but is of limited value if nobody knows it. They need to be almost obnoxious in their persistence. The world is their audience and entrepreneurs only have one shot to make a first great impression! I finished my whirlwind trip with the conviction that the democratization process is well underway that is decreasing barriers to entry and enabling more Latin entrepreneurs than ever before to participate in the innovation revolution.

Carlos Baradello during a keynote: I have been reflecting on the consequences of incrementalism for a while and have come to recognize a disturbing pattern manifested in our western world across multiple aspects of our daily lives not only in businesses, but in many aspects of everyday life. In fact, I have become convinced that incrementalism across developed countries opens a unique opportunity to entrepreneurs from the developing world. This idea is captured by the boiling frog story.

The lesson is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out and survive, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. Companies and leaders try to make the most out of their strengths. At business school, we teach that companies, people, and even countries should focus on what they do best.

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Five brilliant examples of intrapreneurship in action. Top tips for encouraging intrapreneurship in your business. Construct refinement and cross-cultural validation. Journal of business venturing , 16 5 , pp. Clarifying the intrapreneurship concept. Em Portugal, pela Lei n. Face ao disposto no artigo That being the case, does the Commission consider that the above law and the obligations and conditions applying under it to the recognition of private ownership satisfy, and are compatible with, this fundamental right? Thus, the Portuguese Law can only be viewed as a breach of the right to property as guaranteed by the Charter if it implemented European Union law.

At the same time, it might be in the interest of the property owners concerned to seek redress from the Portuguese administrative or judicial authorities. La Agenda Digital Europea marca una serie de objetivos concretos y ambiciosos en materia de banda ancha. Acabado , el objetivo sigue sin cumplirse.

While it is true that a lot of progress has been made in terms of coverage, the fact is that this goal was set to be ambitious and it has not been reached. What measures are being adopted to solve this problem, bearing in mind the delay that has occurred? The EU has achieved its target of broadband for all, because since October last year every EU household can have a basic broadband connection, thanks to pan-EU availability of satellite broadband.

This concerns in particular isolated and rural areas without a fixed or mobile Internet connection, where a broadband rollout is more cumbersome and expensive. Modern bi-directional KA-band broadband satellites can provide download speeds up to 20 Megabits per second. Providers exist now in every EU Member State, offering services at ever lower consumer costs. Moreover, ICT and broadband will be one of the four main thematic objectives on which Member States will have to concentrate the use of European Regional Development Fund in the next programming period It would also adopt additional measures to stimulate the use of digital technologies and electronic trade.

What are these specific steps to support Internet entrepreneurs? What progress has been made? The overall goal is to support tech entrepreneurs to start, grow and stay in Europe. It contains 22 recommendations on action needed at EU level in order to further stimulate the growth of the Internet economy.

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De conformidad con lo dispuesto en dicho Reglamento, los Estados miembros han llevado a cabo evaluaciones de riesgo obligatorias, basadas en las cuales se han elaborado planes de medidas preventivas y de emergencia. Asimismo, han adoptado una serie de medidas de apoyo, entre ellas la mejora de las infraestructuras. Although on that occasion the interruption of the supply was due to a trade dispute between Naftogaz and Gazprom, the political conflict that has recently arisen in Ukraine might lead to a similar situation.

This all suggests that the price of energy is going to increase in the very short term. What financial impact on the incipient recuperation of the European economy does the Commission envisage in the short term? As required by this regulation, Member States have carried out mandatory Risk Assessments based on which Preventive Action Plans and Emergency Plans have been developed. They have also adopted a series of supporting measures, including improvements in infrastructure. The Commission will present a report on the implementation of this regulation by the end of the year. A new Union-wide list, potentially adding new PCIs, will be adopted in Regarding binding objectives for interconnection capacity, the Commission is examining those in line with the request from the European Council of March this year.

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In particular it calls for mainstreaming of industrial competitiveness concerns across all areas of European policy and identifies actions to generate a more business friendly environment, ease access to production inputs, maximise the potential of the internal market, foster internationalization of firms and facilitate labour mobility. However the main objective of this goal is to reinforce the message of putting competitiveness at the core of European policies.

Cambio de bandera en embarcaciones europeas. Si bien regula aspectos ambientales y de seguridad, esta Directiva del mercado interior no se refiere al uso de embarcaciones de recreo. More and more skippers are choosing to register their boats under the flags of Member States other than that of the country of origin.

The main reason for this is to avoid strict national regulations and take advantage of others that are more lenient. If progress is not made towards harmonisation or common legislation, there is a danger that States may make their laws more flexible. In other words, countries may be tempted to relax their requirements in order to attract European skippers and thus increase their revenue from registering vessels under their flags. The fact is that some relaxation may be needed in certain cases, but, if taken too far, this may lead to a reduction in safety at sea.

The main attractions of countries with more lenient laws are less strict time periods for safety checks, less strict requirements for on-board safety equipment and even a lack of any obligation to hold navigation qualifications. Given that failing to maintain certain minimum obligatory standards in these areas would entail a clear risk, does the Commission not believe that steps should be taken at an EU-wide level? The directive covers design and construction characteristics of a craft as well as specific requirements on noise and exhaust emissions.

This legislation has largely facilitated competition, consumer and environment protection, and international trade in the sector. While regulating safety and environmental aspects, this internal market Directive does not cover the use of recreational craft. The issues mentioned above are not altered by the revision. The Commission therefore proposed to assess the need for EU action on provisions for nautical tourism safety equipment as well as on qualification requirements for professional yacht skippers and recreational boating.

Could the Commission inform us about the presence of such advisors in external delegations of the EU? Is the existence of sections or units of cooperation in science and technology common in the delegations? Do such units exist in delegations to countries with which cooperation in science and technology is crucial, such as the United States, the BRIC countries and the scientific and technological power-houses of Asia?

In addition, in the Delegations in Australia, Egypt, Israel and South Korea, we have full time local staff dedicated to research and innovation.

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This list almost perfectly matches the list of the 10 strategic partners of the Union. However, science diplomacy is not limited to these countries. So, to answer the concern of the Honourable Member of the Parliament, the United States, the BRIC countries and the main scientific and technological power-houses are covered. While Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of offers protections to civilians facing non-international armed conflicts, it still lacks a clear definition of non-state armed actors and fails to include criteria for applying the concept of individual criminal responsibility.

The EU and its Member States are convinced that national implementation and enforcement of existing international humanitarian law and other relevant existing legal instruments which have an impact on international humanitarian law are a continuous matter of priority. The EU recognises the importance of the need to protect women from violence in armed conflicts, as can be seen from the numerous laws and policies it has enacted and from the resolutions adopted by Parliament on this subject, alongside those of the UN Security Council.

The EU has been very active in adopting the G8 Declaration on preventing sexual violence in conflict and is implementing concrete projects and initiatives on the topic. Local and regionally managed Instrument for Stability calls for proposals for civil society actions focus on the development of mechanisms to better respond to gender-based violence in situations of crisis and conflict and to mainstream gender and violence against women and girls prevention as cross-cutting aspects of peace building issues. The EU has also given its willing support to UN Security Council Resolution , adopted in , which proposed that an international monitoring and reporting mechanism be set up with the aim of protecting children involved in armed conflicts.

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However, it is important note that the annexes fail to list several countries in which child soldiers continue to be recruited and used. Moreover, a large number of the parties mentioned in the annexes are non-state armed groups. In addition, in several instances non-state armed groups have disrupted educational activities in the societies in which they operate.

The most urgent needs of children affected by armed conflict are covered by the EU's humanitarian aid. For example, the EU's Children for Peace initiative has reached out to approximately children in a range of conflict-affected. The longer-term impact of conflict on children is addressed through projects funded by the EU's various development instruments, and the EU's intention is to include support to children affected by armed conflict in the assistance programming documents for Concrete examples include EU financial support to a project, implemented by the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action and Geneva Call, to provide training in international humanitarian law and related humanitarian norms to armed non-state actors.

The EU also funded a project by the Finnish Red Cross on increasing awareness of international humanitarian law and humanitarian principles among European humanitarian organisations and their implementing partners working in conflict-prone or post-conflict countries. Iraq, Colombia and DRC. Aleksandr Pavlov, former head of security of Mukhtar Ablyazov, is a Kazakh dissident and the main opposition figure to the current President, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The decision was taken without informing him or his lawyer. Such secrecy may be considered an attempt to render impossible the immediate appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Spanish National High Court Audiencia Nacional has issued a temporary injunction, pending the final decision in the asylum appeal procedure.

If these reports are verified, they will call into question the impartiality of the decision and the independence of the judiciary, clearly indicating the political nature of the case. If extradited to Kazakhstan, Pavlov would risk facing ill treatment or even death. As a number of international reports have demonstrated, he could not expect a fair and impartial trial. Regarding the questions pertaining to extradition, this is under the competence of Member States and is done in accordance with national law and international treaties.

Traffico strade e gomme , musica, frastuono e ronzii costanti assediano i cittadini con suoni esagerati, causando stress, cardiopatie, danni dell'udito e cadute. Potrebbe chiedere agli Stati membri di vietare la musica ad alto volume nei rifugi e nelle stazioni in alta montagna, in riva al mare e comunque nei luoghi nei quali la gente intende riposare ed essere a contatto con la natura?

Ha proposte in cantiere per la riduzione del rumore derivante dal manto stradale e dagli pneumatici degli autoveicoli, oltre che dai motori? La Commissione segue da vicino l'attuazione della direttiva sul rumore ambientale e intende assicurarne il rispetto con tutti gli strumenti legali a sua disposizione. Per quanto riguarda il manto stradale, le informazioni trasmesse dagli Stati membri nella mappatura acustica delle strade prevista dalla direttiva sul rumore ambientale potrebbero costituire la base di un futuro lavoro di ricerca sulla classificazione delle superfici stradali.

According to a long article published in The Lancet by a group of experts in various medical disciplines belonging to the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise ICBEN , we live our lives surrounded by a barrage of noise, without realising the damage that this causes not only to our hearing, but also to the cardiovascular and nervous systems. This damage is linked to a long list of disorders and diseases, which in turn generate extremely high healthcare costs. For example, the article reveals that noise has impaired the hearing of some 1.

People are being assaulted by noise from traffic roads and tyres , music and the constant din of everyday life, leading to stress, heart disease, hearing problems and falls. Can the Commission say which Member States complied with the directive by the time limit laid down? Will the Commission urge Member States to ban the playing of loud music in mountain huts and resorts, in seaside areas or indeed any places where people go to rest and be in contact with nature?

Will the Commission consider organising ad hoc courses for public officials, whose awareness of the issue of noise pollution is so low? Does the Commission have plans to reduce the noise generated by road surfaces and vehicle tyres, as well as by engines? While most Member States have not fully implemented all provisions of the directive, Lithuania has currently complied with all its requirements.

The Commission closely monitors the implementation of the Environmental Noise Directive and will ensure its respect, using the available legal instruments. Noise from domestic activities and noise created by neighbours — such as playing loud music — is excluded from the scope of the Environmental Noise Directive. It however considers the organisation of ad hoc courses for public officials — if considered necessary by Member States — as a task for the national, regional or local competent authorities. Regarding road surfaces, the information presented by Member States in the noise road maps provided for by the Environmental Noise Directive could form the basis of future research work on road surface classification.

Due to the exclusive nature of the preparations, it has become a classist caste system which is unreachable not only to professionals and anyone on low income, but also to older people, despite the fact that they are more deserving, better qualified and have greater professional experience; the Spanish judiciary itself has brazenly admitted to blatant indirect age discrimination. Temporary recruitment is thus being abused to prop up a system which is extremely lucrative for the upper echelons of the Spanish judiciary, who are systematically discriminating against interim judges.

Spanish law does not contain any measures to prevent the abuse of substitute judges and replacement magistrates through the use fixed-term contracts, nor can these contracts be made permanent — despite the existence of specific provisions to that effect in private sector employment law. Should private sector regulations governing the upgrading of successive fixed-term contracts to permanent ones also apply to the interim judiciary? It must be pointed out that there are two types of professional judge in Spain: Both types of judge exercise the same jurisdictional powers, with the same restrictions and limitations on holding multiple posts Arts.

It should be highlighted that amongst the body of permanent judges there are also judges appointed regionally, whose job is to serve as substitutions, replacements and support in the same way as substitute judges. However, whereas permanent judges are paid monthly and make continuous payments towards Social Security, including these regional judges and as expected by their role, substitute judges receive a salary and pay into Social Security only on days on which they are called up, despite carrying out the same jurisdictional work and serving as substitutions, replacements and support.

If they are not called up, they do not receive a salary or make any Social Security payments, they are not afforded healthcare cover and they are not permitted to hold any other job or profession — except for lecturing — due to the restrictions placed on them that require their constant availability and dedication. The Commission has asked the Spanish authorities for clarifications and will complete its analysis on the basis of their reply and the information provided by the complainants.

It does not, for instance, regulate the methods and procedures applied for the recruitment of fixed-term staff. As a consequence, it is not for the Commission to query the recruitment procedure which the Honourable Members outline. In any event, this directive has been correctly transposed in Spain. Calidad del aire en Inca Islas Baleares. Is the Commission aware of the excessive levels of air pollution in the municipality of Inca?

Short-term measuring campaigns like the ones mentioned by the Honourable Member can provide useful information, but their results must be interpreted with caution. Neither of the two monitoring campaigns shows a breach of the hourly NO 2 limit value or of the 8-hourly O 3 target value, and the results of the campaigns cannot be extrapolated to the calendar year time scale or to annual averages in a straightforward manner. The Spanish authorities are in any case required to continue to monitor the pollutant concentration levels and, if an exceedance situation according to the applicable EU legislation is confirmed, to report it and to take the necessary action to keep the exceedance period as short as possible.

The sheer quantity of data now available and the statistical methods and algorithms used to analyse it thanks to the development of super-powerful computer programs are making it easier to analyse and predict human behaviour. For instance, when Marseille was the European capital of culture in , the local authorities tested a system which used mobile phone signals to track the number of tourists attending events all over the city and thus monitor tourism trends.

Does the Commission intend to use the big data revolution to its advantage and monitor tourism patterns with a view to developing a European tourism strategy? Given the significant cost of collecting raw data, particularly for micro-enterprises operating in the European tourism sector, how will it encourage investment in software capable of processing the data collected? The Commission recognises that big data analytics is one of the new technologies that are changing the economy. In addition to the European Entrepreneurship Action Plan, it is working on a possible overarching strategic framework for Europe that has the potential to make Big Data work for European data-driven innovation.

Several initiatives were launched to explore the potential of Big Data for statistics, e. It is expected that mobile positioning data will have a positive influence on the availability of statistics in the future, including in the area of tourism. The Commission is encouraging Member States to use modern collection means and to better integrate different areas of statistics so as to maximise economies of scale and interoperability of sources, thereby reducing the burden and costs for enterprises.

With respect to all of the abovementioned initiatives it remains of course important that full compliance with the applicable EU and national rules on the protection of personal data is ensured. The relocation of businesses outside the European Union and closure of traditional firms for various reasons have left behind a series of industrial buildings that form part of the local, regional and national industrial and cultural heritage.

This heritage does not belong only to the owners of the businesses concerned but represents a legacy handed down by workers, through the work they carried out and their daily lives, and is a sign of the diversity to be found in the region's society. In many cases, the firms' main buildings were planned and built by leading architects, and this gives them added historical importance as they form part of the architectural, industrial and social history of the countries concerned. How will the Commission support efforts being made by local and regional authorities to reclassify, transform and re-use industrial buildings or buildings in other sectors, including ports, and convert them into buildings that will benefit the public — such as university campuses, industrial parks for research and innovation, or houses that meet the new energy efficiency requirements while preserving the buildings' identity?

Under this framework, it is the responsibility of Member States to draw up programmes for the use of ESI Funds concentrating them on priorities setting out specific objectives where they will have the greatest added value and impact. ESI Funds complement national, regional and local interventions and are implemented in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity. It is the Member States' responsibility to select projects for financing in line with their priorities and objectives.

The European Regional Development Fund in particular can co-finance projects aiming at converting declining industrial regions while the Cohesion Fund can co-finance investment in the environment, including areas related to sustainable development and energy which present environmental benefits. Wiedererstarken der Industrie im Bereich der Rohstoffversorgung. Gewinnung von nichtenergetischen Rohstoffen und Recycling angesprochen. Raw materials are of crucial importance for the European industrial renaissance recently called for by the Commission.

Metals and minerals are the very foundation of all industrial processes and products, as has been acknowledged in Commission policy actions such as the Raw Materials Initiative and the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials. Recent surveys show that Europe still has valuable unexploited mineral deposits.

However, Europe continues to import a vast majority of the raw materials needed by its industry from third countries and thus exposes itself to unfair trade practices, as shown by the recent trade restrictions on Chinese rare earths that are essential for clean energy technologies and high tech products e.

In the short term, the Commission does not intend to launch a cumulative cost impact assessment for the European mining industry. Do they act alone or do they work with national intelligence agencies of European countries? Do they employ existing bilateral mutual assistance and judicial cooperation channels or do they dispense with them? Could the Commission shed further light on this matter so as to establish the truth once and for all? As stated in its preamble, the Agreement is without prejudice to other law enforcement or information sharing agreements or arrangements between the Parties or between the United States and Member States.

Department of the Treasury, provided examples of cases when the U. The Commission remains committed to closely scrutinise the implementation of the TFTP Agreement both over the coming months and in the longer term as well. Improved transparency and safety standards for online and telecommunications services is a necessary principle with a view to a better data protection regime.

Could the Commission, therefore, put forward a legislative proposal on standardised general terms and conditions for online and telecommunications services, and mandate a supervisory body to monitor compliance with them? National measures also require them to notify individuals in case of personal data breaches that are likely to adversely affect their personal data or privacy. Both Directives require Member States to set forth competent national authorities to enforce the national provisions implementing the directives.

The Commission is considering the advantages of horizontal regulation, with the same rules for the same service regardless of who provides it. The issue raised by the honourable Member could be considered in the next review. The report to which the Honourable Member refers has not been discussed in the Council. The Council cannot speculate about any future sectoral data-sharing agreements with the United States. Any negotiation mandate for an international agreement can only be adopted by the Council following a recommendation to that end by the Commission.

Likewise, any decision on signing an international agreement can be taken by the Council only on a proposal from the Commission. Moreover, the Council can adopt a decision on concluding such an international agreement only on a proposal from the Commission and after having obtained the consent of the Parliament.

If not, will it give the reasons for its decision? Objectives and scope are distinct from the personal data protection issues raised by the Honourable Member. The 13 recommendations concern four major areas of improvement: The Commission will then review the functioning of the Safe Harbour scheme based on the implementation of these recommendations. This broader review process should involve open consultation and a debate in the European Parliament. Who will be responsible for ensuring that the European and US privacy frameworks are consistent with each other?

Remedies should be identified by summer and implemented as soon as possible. On that basis the Commission will assess the functioning of the Safe Harbour. The agreement will ensure a high level of protection of personal data for citizens on both sides of the Atlantic, in particular, through enforceable rights and effective judicial redress mechanisms. Does the Commission agree that, in an effort to improve industrial relations, steps should be taken to promote the establishment of legal frameworks which give employees to a real say in the running of the companies they work for?

An effective framework is indeed of crucial importance considering that well-run companies are likely to be more competitive and more sustainable in the long term, thus contributing to economic growth and job creation. But it can also relate to forms of financial involvement, particularly to employees becoming shareholders. In order to gather national practices in this area, the Commission is currently carrying out a Pilot Project on the promotion of employee ownership and participation.

The Commission regards the participative management approach as a core feature of social enterprises. Koje su neke od razmatranih mjera? Kako se navodi od sastanka na vrhu Europske unije i Ukrajine u Parizu Europska Komisija dogovorila je 5. The current political and economic situation in Ukraine is presenting a number of challenges for the country and calls for a direct and decisive response from the European Union.

The EU sending unclear messages, as it is now doing, can only contribute to further escalation of the crisis. Along with the recent political instability and the crisis of the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine is also facing the possibility of national bankruptcy and is in dire need of financial aid in order to restore stability and prevent economic and social turmoil.

Amongst the pro-European forces in Ukraine there are expectations that an association agreement will eventually lead to full EU membership. In the light of the talks on sanctions against Russia, how far are the Member States willing to go with their sanctions if Russia does not respond to EU pressure? What are some of the measures considered? Has the Council considered the option of assisting Ukraine in negotiating a temporary debt moratorium with foreign financial institutions in order to alleviate its financial crisis?

The Council recalled that any further steps by the Russian Federation to destabilise the situation in Ukraine would lead to additional and far reaching consequences for relations in a broad range of economic areas between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation, on the other hand. This would be in addition to the significant funding provided by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Nahm sie daran teil? Under its short-term objectives for deliverables, ENLETS plans to execute a programme for the dissemination and implementation of best practices which raises serious concerns regarding the privacy of EU citizens and compliance with EU and national basic principles for the protection of fundamental rights.

The European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services Enlets is a network composed of representatives of EU Member States, which aims at gathering user requirements, monitoring and raising awareness of new technology and best practices, benchmarking and giving advice. The Commission was represented at this meeting, and also received the document that Enlets presented on its proposed work programme. The Commission follows Enlets' work and activities. The Commission does not and would not support any activities which are not compliant with the Charter of Fundamental Rights or relevant legislation at EU or national level.

The Commission has asked Enlets to ensure that their work does not give rise to any possible misunderstanding in this regard. Estudios sobre la estacionalidad del turismo. Tourism is the third largest socioeconomic activity in the European Union. The tourism industry in Europe is therefore a strong, stable and growing one. However, it is not immune to serious problems, chiefly the seasonal nature of the industry, with its damaging effect on current and future income, its negative influence on profits, the increased public expenditure in the form of unemployment benefits, and consequently the low usage of the production and professional facilities as an industry.

It should nevertheless be recognised that the seasonal nature of the industry is not a factor that cannot be controlled as there are variables that can be manipulated. Moreover, it must be said that, although many variable factors are beyond control, others may indeed be controlled, even though a significant effort may be required in terms of research, innovation, coordination and cooperation. Has the Commission carried out any study on the problem of the seasonal variances in thetourism industry and investigated possible solutions?

Does the European Union intend to finance or provide financial aid to carry outstudies on this subject? The study looked into concrete examples of good practice of mechanisms which increase low-season tourism exchanges in Europe, with an aim to promote their transferability and take-up as well as assisting other countries and regions to develop similar approaches. The study includes a detailed compendium of good practice and dedicated country profile fiches. Now that European Parliament elections are just around the corner, we are seeing how the anti-European stance of certain groups is intensifying in a good number of countries in the European Union.

Many people in these Member States blame Europe for the negative effects of the financial crisis, playing down or simply ignoring the mistakes made within the internal politics of each of the respective countries. Equally, we have seen on many occasions how the governments of the Member States have taken credit for actions and efforts in which the European Union has played a key role.

This has resulted in a simplification of the facts that have filtered through to society, which is under the impression, as its politicians would have it believe, that the crisis has worsened due to European intervention. This clearly fallacious idea has become deeply embedded in the minds of Eurosceptics and radical groups that staunchly oppose European integration.

In view of this observation, what measures does the Commission have in mind to reverse this distorted view of reality?


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The network of Europe Direct Information Centres of which there are around across the EU also plays an important role in providing information locally. The Commission has also sought to engage with people through the European Year of Citizens, the Europe for Citizens programme and the recent series of Citizens' Dialogues. Over 50 Dialogues have been held, covering all Member States, with most European Commissioners participating, usually alongside Members of the European Parliament and national, regional or local politicians.

The Commission believes that the governments of Member States could play a more prominent role in explaining Europe to citizens and in fostering the creation of a true European public space in which European issues are discussed from a European point of view. The Commission is already working with Member States to inform citizens, for instance via Europe around the corner. This web-based tool linking national webpages to the European website shows citizens how EU funds are being used on projects in their communities and regions.

We recently learned that only eight of the top technology companies in the world are European. This is certainly a cause for concern given that, just a few years ago, Europe was the global leader in many technological and scientific fields. The innovation strategy set out in the programme seems to have become obsolete. What does the Commission intend to do to ensure that the European technological sector returns to its top position in the global ranking?

The study identifies some of the challenges to be overcome to achieve competitiveness, in particular, the lack of a single market, the difficulty to get equity financing, the shortage of engineers and the lack of entrepreneurial spirit. The DAE aims to help Europe's citizens and businesses to get the most out of digital technologies.


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It is the first of seven flagships initiatives under Europe , the EU's strategy to deliver smart sustainable and inclusive growth. This includes an Industrial Leadership pillar to speed up development of the technologies and innovations that will underpin tomorrow's businesses and help innovative European SMEs to grow into world-leading companies. Respuesta de la Sra. With such an ambitious project, it would be disappointing if EU initiatives like these were not made known to all those concerned. Therefore, does the Commission believe that Member States are providing a sufficient amount of information about the Horizon programme so that it reaches all small and medium-sized business in the European Union?

Does the Commission believe that it should further boost the mechanisms and measures aimed at promoting Horizon ? The Horizon communications campaign has two strands working in parallel: Commissions' Permanent Representations and Delegations — close collaboration for press briefings, National Launch events. That is why Commission services, with its information initiatives on SME support under Horizon , has specifically targeted National Contact Points and Enterprise Europe Network members, as they have the capacity to continuously link with target audiences on the ground and in their own language.

The Commission would encourage Member States to continue investing in and even reinforce these entities as effective brokers and facilitators of EU support to SMEs. Policies implemented by the European Union are financed by the Community budget. EU treaties insist on the necessity of proper administration and rectifying any actions that might affect European financial interests.

These subsidies should have been destined entirely to promote jobs specifically continuous training initiatives. Is the Commission aware of any investigations that have been initiated to verify the correct use of the large sums of European funds on training courses for employees organised by competent bodies in the Autonomous Community of Madrid? The Commission is aware of various investigation procedures being undertaken by the Spanish authorities in relation to training courses, including in the Madrid region.

Immediately after the publications in the press, the Commission informed OLAF and requested to the national authority managing the European Social Fund ESF to verify if the alleged potential fraud was co-funded by the ESF or is only having an impact on national budget, and to take the corresponding corrective and preventive measures. At present the national management authority of the ESF in Spain is undertaking verifications regarding various articles published in the press supposing possible misuse of ESF.

In general terms, the Commission follows up the implementation of the ESF regularly through different tools including the annual Monitoring Committees and Examination Meetings. As regards the financial management, the Commission closely monitors the financial execution and carries out regular controls and audits.

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The Commission in all cases applies the procedures foreseen in the regulations whenever deficiencies in the management and control systems or irregularities have been detected. Der var flere forskellige fejl. A new Danish study shows that more than one in three products have errors in their energy labelling. This is a serious problem, because energy labelling acts as a signpost to consumers when they purchase new products.

The errors noted were of several different kinds, with the label either being incomplete, incorrect or simply missing. Consumers look first and foremost at the price, but a lot of money can often be saved on an energy-labelled refrigerator, because it uses much less electricity. There are therefore also important environmental reasons for consumers to be able to rely on energy labelling. What does the Commission consider can be done to ensure that refrigerators, for example, are compliant with energy labelling requirements?

Dealers are responsible for missing labels and for labels that are affixed to the wrong appliance. Suppliers are responsible for labels that give incorrect information. However, it is the responsibility of market surveillance to ensure that such situations do not occur. Member States' market surveillance authorities have to perform appropriate checks on an adequate scale and provide for effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties in case of non-compliance.