Translation of "Kosten aufbürden" in English

Accidentsand occupational diseases can give rise to heavy costs to companies.For small companies particularly, occupational accidents can have amajor financial impact.

It is necessary to define rules, and not to establish more institutions and authorities which will burden passengers, airline operators and also taxpayers with yet more additional costs.

For example, in Finland, there are many small family firms, and we might ask whether we should be continually burdening these small companies with new costs and obligations, since they are struggling to make their enterprises profitable.

Today, when Europe is experiencing economic decline, we should concentrate more on measures intended to strengthen the Union's economy, and not burden it with additional costs.

Farmers should not have to bear the cost of errors made by the Commission in its management of the markets, which will lead to a 20-25 % increase in stocks carried over.

First, there is the difficulty of further standardisation with a view to introducing tighter controls, because some countries, such as Germany, do not want to pass on the extra costs to their farmers given that they are hardly affected by this disease.

It is not acceptable for Member States and the European institutions to take decisions involving huge costs that others have to bear.

That is who we must protect, and it is certainly not by offloading the financial burden of the situation onto the Member States that we will do so.

At the same time, we are also very pleased that the text to be voted on tomorrow includes a reference to the principle of proportionality when allocating funding, whereby, given that the network benefits the Union as a whole, countries such as my own, which have much greater biological diversity and more extensive protected areas, will not be required to shoulder greater costs.

Worse than that, I fear it will infringe liberty, and add unnecessary costs to business and consumers without actually making any of our citizens safer.

If large firms can shape the playing field in their favor through their influence on the political process and regulation ??? thereby keeping out new entrants in their industries and shifting costs to society – a whole new perspective on competition policy follows.

Free markets alone cannot cope with the “externalities” that arise when economic activities produce harmful consequences that impose no direct cost on individual producers and consumers.

This would entail pro-active and ambitious actions and very high costs to all Member States.

A legislative solution may lower prices, but may burden existing and new entrants with additional costs.

The association claimed that the imposition of measures would bring excessive costs to the EU plastic converting industry, which is mainly composed of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

National mandatory labelling schemes would create barriers to intra Community trade, generate undue costs for industry and constitute obstacles to the free movement of goods within the Community.

International commitments can add costs on Community businesses, especially if the enterprises in our main competitor countries are not subject to the same commitments, or do not live up to them.

There is no agricultural export future for either the common market or the United States if we fight each other for and in agricultural export markets.

In fact, you will be aware that public companies settle within a certain period, and this time limit means that it will no longer be possible for private companies who deal with the public sector to impose large, excessive burdens on public companies.

Such changeability certainly reduces the visibility of policy (and thus its effectiveness) and can, if not handled correctly, inflict costs on firms.

If one day they had to make up for the neglected maintenance of our roads, railways and waterways this would burden them with much higher costs still.