Translation of "Am besten abschneiden" in English

Seventeen Member States are on target, with Denmark and Malta jointly achieving the best result.

The best performing Member States in terms of road safety also have the most efficient checking systems.

The helmets that perform best are used to define the initial requirements for the standard.

It also provides you with a clear indication of which farms are performing best.

I would like to remind you that all the progress recorded in the last few years in a certain number of developing countries - even those that are doing best - will probably be wiped out, preventing the Millennium Development Goals from being achieved.

I must say that, as regards many indicators, the best-performing EU countries are also world leaders, sometimes doing substantially better than the US and Japan.

We can see that the countries that perform best have created jobs on the basis of a solid financial policy and have got to grips with the necessary structural reforms earlier than others.

If we analyse the frequency of accidents in the various regions of the world, it emerges that – not by chance – North America, Europe, Japan and Australia have the best records, although there is still much to be done, while Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean have the worst.

Why is it that in some candidate countries, the number of abortions is up to ten times higher than in the Member States that obtain the best score in this area?

The strategic goal of the Union “to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world…” implies that the benchmark countries should in principle be the best performers in the world.

In that case, there will be an explanation in the BREF of why it has been rejected, considering that the plant achieving the best performance for a given environmental indicator may not be able to be the best performer for other indicators.

It is clear that by investing in education and making better use of resources, the best performers are securing their future economic growth.

It is striking that the Member States that have implemented the most recommendations also perform best as regards the timely transposition of Internal Market directives and vice-versa: 9 out of the 10 Member States than rank first in terms of implementation of recommendations also stay below the 1.5% transposition target deficit.

It identifies the top 10 and bottom 10 EU regions for each of the indicators it examines.

The pre-conditions for successful strategy exist as some of the new Member States are among the best in the EU on some key indicators such as the proportion of the population at risk of poverty: 8% in the Czech Republic and 10% in Slovenia in 2003.

In this respect, Policy Option 2 is expected to score best because the revised definition of MCA is the strictest, in that the MCA will encompass aircraft whose noise performance is below Chapter 3 -12EPNdB standard and therefore close to Chapter 4 aircraft.

It must aim for full employment as an objective of economic and social policy with the medium-term target of cutting unemployment to levels in the best-performing countries.

Twenty Member States are either at or below the target, while Lithuania and Malta were overall the best performers, being three Directives away from a perfect score.

At the disaggregate level, developments remain uneven across Member States, with the German and Polish economies performing strongest.

The top-ranked projects in the competitive evaluation process will be offered grant contracts of up to five years.

Cross-examination aims to identify underperformance and support convergence towards best performers in areas of labour markets, competitiveness, business environment and public administrations, as well as certain aspects of tax policy.

They will set clear targets and set aside a financial performance reserve to reward regions who do best in reaching their goals.

The top-ranked projects in the competitive evaluation process will be offered grant contracts of up to six years.

Belgium’s French-speaking Community, along with Greece, ranks last in the equality tables, while Finland and the Netherlands lead the field.

Regions performing best in terms of employment are usuallycharacterised by high income levels, a low share of employment in agriculture, a high level of employment inthe service sector and a highly qualified population ofworking age.

The average annual progression in the number of SE graduates is between 1.4% and 15.8% with Slovakia, Poland and Romania scoring the highest.

We find a similar sense among citizens ofbeing poorly informed in other Northern European countries, namely Sweden and Finland, which are, nevertheless, countries classedas having a very dynamic research policy.Also notable is that these countries rankamong the highest in the knowledge tests carried out by the surveys (see below).