In the field of telecommunication satellites, French industry has to cope with rapidly developing technologies and market requirements in a very competitive environment.

99. Adjusting to a globally competitive trade environment.

By comparison, in market economies, competition policies appeared to be the most efficient way of preventing the welfare losses that occured in an imperfectly competitive environment.

Equally important is to establish a competitive environment for ISPs.

Changing market environment opportunities and

In the field of telecommunications satellites, French industry is having to face up to rapid progress in technologies and the needs of the market within a highly competitive environment.

(a) Investment in MFIs, building potential market leaders and competitive microfinance sectors.

They have proved that they can be competitive in a market economy.

Second, the insurability of liability requires a sufficiently large and competitive insurance market.

A further challenge consists in developing a competitive environment on the supply side.

The introduction of a competitive environment for access to the factors of production increases social differentiation in the countryside and polarizes agriculture into two types competitive modern faming systems oriented solely towards the market, and family subsistence farming, which embraces most of the workers on the land.

We basically tried to create the most competitive environment for our lab as possible.

The Norwegian Competition Authority successfully used this procedure to ensure that the market remained competitive.

Cuba also relies on service differentiation to make its health services competitive in the world market.

A competitive environment with well regulated markets was the most effective institution to allocate resources efficiently.

This in turn should help SMEs in those countries to become more competitive in the global market.

Small and vulnerable economies must not be abandoned to their fate in the current highly competitive market.

The act of 1994 broadened the scope for cooperatives to adapt to changing market and competitive conditions.

In order to continue doing so, they need to be competitive in terms of production costs, and the trading environment has to allow competitive advantages to be decisive.

Eli Lilly in, again, the fiercely competitive pharmaceutical world has created a market for solutions for pharmaceutical problems.

It also offered basic understanding of economy, market, environment and technology.

PSD will invest in building strategically important market and competitive knowledge through market research and ensure that internal decision making is more than ever supported by this knowledge.

Client relations and marketing UNOPS services assume critical importance for a multiple service line provider in a competitive market.

The Australia Thailand agreement, for instance, contains a definition of the anti competitive practices to be proscribed these include business conduct or transactions that adversely affect competition, such as anti competitive horizontal arrangements between competitors misuse of market power, including predatory pricing anti competitive vertical arrangements and anti competitive mergers and acquisitions.

We will never create a fully fledged market economy until we lay its foundation, that is free competition, which in turn calls for demonopolization, the formation of a competitive environment, State regulation of natural monopolies and competition for State orders.

This will require the least developed countries to create an enabling environment for ICT related investment and competitive services.

Even in the case of extensions, a preliminary survey of the market may be a good gauge of whether or not a consultant is still competitive and UNICEF is still getting competitive rates.

In the current complex market environment, the company expresses concerns about this.

(a) Enhance and support competitive productive capacities able to produce according to market requirements in terms of quality and quantity

The entry of private ventures into the Earth observation sector might also see a more competitive remote sensing data market.

According to the Labour Market Service Act, employers are paid labour market service subsidy through the employment office if the employer employs an unemployed person with a lower competitive ability.

The priority of Croatian economic policy was to continue building a stable and strong market economy, competitive on a global scale.

Obtaining advantages for the local production system, thus allowing for the entry of our industry into a highly competitive international market.

It was also noted that producers in a competitive market have more incentive to be efficient in transformation, transmission and distribution.

Some technologies are already mature and economically competitive, while others need only minor additional development steps to become ready for the market.

Similar reasoning applies to reform of the state owned enterprise (SOE) sector. The key problem is less the form of ownership (state or private) than it is the need to ensure that these enterprises operate according to market principles and within a competitive environment.

These are magnified in a globalized, liberalized and competitive international economic environment and with the increasing incidence of more devastating natural disasters.

Capital Market Commission's Committee on Corporate Governance in Greece (1999). Principles on Corporate Governance in Greece Recommendations for Its Competitive Transformation (Mertzanis Report).

Yet regulators persist in trying to inject themselves into these fields, with antitrust authorities claiming that they are ripe with anti competitive practices and exercises of undue market power by the most successful market participants.

This fact, in itself, cannot be taken as definitive evidence of the presence of anti competitive practices in the market for international Internet connectivity.

However, some less competitive exporters are facing adjustment issues consequent to quota elimination and require assistance to improve their market access and supply capacity.

Even in the case of other developing markets, it is important that vigilance be exercised so that market structures do no evolve in a direction in which powerful market players can engage in anti competitive behaviour.

However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

Yet, negotiations under agriculture and non agricultural market access have proved controversial owing to differing interests between preference dependent countries and other competitive exporting countries.

An assessment mission undertaken in Jordan in November 2004 showed that the EMPRETEC Programme can provide a competitive edge to SMEs in the global market.