Translation of "In öffentlicher hand" in English

Railways, air transport and passenger road transport are mostly publicly-owned.

It feels that TEN-Es must be covered by public decision-making.

When the group was set up, it was partly in public ownership.

In Denmark, bus operation has been a public task until 1989.

Following ICTY’s decision, a number of war crimes cases have been transferred from The Hague.

The company was almost 99 percent publicly owned.

Most are public sports facilities with specific access conditions.

In many countries, water utilities are part of the public sector.

Administration and evaluation of the programme should remain a public matter, that is, one for the Commission.

Of late this situation has led to a radical rethink on the part of publicly owned local transport companies.

The last decade has seen extensive development of the service sector, both public and private.

The cultural museum of Würzburg owns 19 paintings, representing the largest collection in public hands.

These can be either specialist or generalist, and private or public.

These enterprises should be free of competition and organized as co-operative societies. Or else they should be owned publicly.

The percentage of securities not in public hands is 4.12 per cent.

In many cases liberalisation needs to be accompanied by regulation, and clear rules, respecting the freedom and autonomy of each of the Member States to decide on what, for them, due to tradition, the reality of the population, or the reality of the circumstances, should continue to be part of the public sector.

I also hope that the 5th World Water Forum will recognise the concept of water as a global public resource and that this idea will gain support, with consequent appropriate policies on its protection, on public ownership and on usage and distribution procedures.

Their ownership and administration must be in public hands, in order to protect the interests of EU Member States.

We voted against this report because we disagree with many of the proposals that it propounds, as they are always based on free competition and liberalisation of markets in a strategic sector in which the existence of public policies and public ownership of the principle means of energy production was essential.

Under the pretext of facilitating business opportunities within international air transport, this promotes the interests of multinationals within the sector at the expense of national companies and their respective strategic interests, including those that, as is the case in Portugal with TAP, are publicly owned.

There is no doubt that the high cost of a European system means that partnership between public and private industry in Europe will be necessary.

Apparently, the proposal is founded on an ideological principle, namely that companies should no longer be publicly owned.

Of course, the infrastructure must be safe and must be a matter for the authorities, but operators cannot achieve a lawless and fiercely competitive market without the risk of bottlenecks or a serious accident which would compromise everything that has been done.

Why should a private-sector supplier be a priori any better at this than one under public ownership?

There is nothing fair about the competition if the regulations on aid put enterprises with a larger than 25 % public stake in them at a disadvantage over against their private-sector counterparts.

Commissioner, this example illustrates the danger of a lack of coordination between rail networks, whether they be privatised or still under the public service system.

It will always be up to governments to lay down the conditions that services of general interest – public or private – will have to fulfil.

Anyone who warns us that jobs will be lost and forgets that they are already being lost now, when the railways are still in the public sector, has not, to my mind, assessed the situation fairly and objectively.