Translation of "Sinnvolles instrument" in English

An instrument as worthwhile as this deserves a solid legal basis, therefore.

This aid to producers is a practical instrument for stabilizing and limiting the hop market.

Does the European Court of Auditors consider such an action plan to be a useful instrument for improving financial management?

International recognition of labour standards is a valuable way of preventing such exploitation.

In this context the Committee sees the classification list as a valuable tool for use in risk assessment.

A quality system is a useful tool to make sure that procedures are in accordance with the objectives.

For the study of long run economic growth, comparisons of labour productivity by sector and industry is a useful complementary analytical tool.

Competitions are a useful instrument to achieve the best possible result for a given task.

Emissions trading, for example, is not even mentioned explicitly as a sensible instrument for controlling emissions efficiently.

The upgrade to HTTPS is, among other criteria, a very useful tool for search engine optimization (SEO).

As I had occasion to explain in March this year at the time of the vote on the Böge report, using the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund as a useful instrument for tackling the consequences of the economic and financial crisis is a very valuable initiative that provides a practical response in terms of financial aid.

I must say that I welcome the proposal for the creation of Eurobonds, which I believe can be a useful tool, but I have more problems with the bulk of the report, which is on the introduction of a tax on financial transactions.

However, the Commission needs to make sure that the CBA is a meaningful means of evaluating the specific handicap of the chosen location. This can be done only if the alternative projects are comparable.

Using the Globalisation Adjustment Fund as a useful instrument to tackle the consequences of the economic and financial crisis is a very worthy initiative that makes a practical response in terms of financial aid.

The TBVI has, moreover, proposed a model that can potentially become a useful tool in the future.

I did so believing it to be a very useful tool for the development of a sector that will be a driving force for the European economy.

This would also mean finding a genuine solution to the problems faced by frontier workers in the areas between the Netherlands and Germany and between the Netherlands and Belgium, which have been under the microscope for ten years now without any sort of useful proposals coming from the Commission.

Indeed, since a majority of Member States would not seem to be contemplating a radical switch towards any other type of, let us say, much more federal institutional model, one cannot but acknowledge that closer cooperation is a fine tool which provides a response to the realistic observation that, in an enlarged Europe, not all the Member States will always be able, or want, to move forward at the same rate.

Mr President, what we seemed almost to have forgotten in the discussions was that we were all there when agreements were made in Kyoto and that this directive on emission trading was simply a good way of ensuring that the reduction tasks could be implemented in a very efficient manner.

I am pleased that this text establishes very clearly that trade must proceed according to certain rules if it is to become a meaningful and effective instrument for combating poverty and developing prosperity.

I welcome this instrument, and would want to make two comments in this respect.

They agree that prudent debt write-off is useful and necessary if certain countries are to reach the agreed development goals, but they have reservations about 100% debt relief. They have mobilised more than USD 53 million in debt-service relief.

With the modernisation of the Stability and Growth Pact, we have obtained a useful tool, but that tool must now be accompanied by a number of other tools at national level that can create the new jobs we so badly need.

The Council hopes that the Directive on information and consultation will actually become a meaningful instrument which provides a legal process for such issues in the future. It is a directive on which we have worked hard throughout the Swedish Presidency.

Industrial intellectual property rights are a useful instrument for the economy and for society in general, and I believe it is only natural to want to tailor them to Community requirements in an internal market.

Creating more frozen conflicts, which the West abhors but is powerless to resolve, may seem like a useful way to achieve this.

Article 8 Exchange of officials: this can be a very valuable tool in ensuring greater cooperation and improved performance/reduced compliance costs.