Traducción de «Completar los trámites administrativos de afiliación » (Español → Inglés) :

7. The Member State of affiliation may impose on an insured person seeking reimbursement of the costs of cross-border healthcare, including healthcare received through means of telemedicine, the same conditions, criteria of eligibility and regulatory and administrative formalities, whether set at a local, regional or national level, as it would impose if this healthcare were provided in its territory.

Furthermore, the current regime implies unjustified administrative procedures and costs for third countries citizens which is translated into efforts to build a whole dossier of application, very long queues at the embassies, high costs because of the price of the visa itself and associated costs (telephone, travel to the city where the consulates is located, etc.) All these formalities can take weeks and even months and can force people to take time of work, abandon their travel plans and even stop people from going abroad to see the ...[+++]ir family in case of urgency.

Provide a single coherent framework for SME policy, in order to give greater visibility to SMEs and to the public in general of measures and initiatives for unlocking the full potential of all types of SMEs; Step up its efforts to complete the internal market, with special attention being paid to services; Focus on improving access to finance for SMEs, strengthening the Community's role in addressing market failures, increasing the promotion of good practices and fostering the development of public-private partnerships; Carry on the work on Better Regulation following the principle of "Think Small First" to ensure that the needs of SM ...[+++]Es are fully and systematically taken into account when screening and conducting integrated impact assessment of forthcoming legislation and by consulting all relevant stakeholders on new Community legislation; Organise the 4th European Conference for Crafts and Small Enterprises in early 2007, special attention having been given to the integration of crafts and small enterprises from the new Member States into the Single Market; Take fully into account the need for consideration to be given to amending existing state aid rules reflecting market failures relevant to SMEs and at simplifying administrative procedures (inter alia via an increased de-minimis rule and, more importantly, wider block exemptions); Take into account SME needs in the field of Intellectual Property Rights and Counterfeiting; Implement more efficient mechanisms for a regular and comprehensive dialogue with key SME stakeholders, especially representative SME organisations; Review progress achieved in the implementation of the modern SME policy communication by organising an annual high-level conference.

Is it therefore possible – and this is a proposal on our part and I would appreciate a response – to see if these candidate countries could take their projects through the entire procedure as early as 2003? In other words, if they could complete all the administrative formalities, so that they can start immediately with the real construction work on 1 January 2004?