local firm

local firm

Canada Community Investment Plan : facilitating the growth of local industry through community-based economic development

Atlantic Canada Community Business Investment Fund

local exchange carrier | LEC | local phone company | local telephone company | local provider

local employment initiative

action and research programme on local employment development | Local Employment Development Action programme | LEDA [Abbr.]

company local concentrator | firm local concentrator

power line local area network | power line LAN | AC LAN

In terms of private sector development support, the Commission wants to remain an important partner of governments and business intermediary organisations in developing countries for supporting the creation of an enabling business environment and the development of local enterprises that are equipped to create decent jobs, generate public revenues, and harness the opportunities offered by globally integrated markets.[3] In so doing, the Commission will look for new ways of harnessing the potential of the private sector as a financing partner, implementing agent, advisor or intermediary to achieve more effective and e ...[+++]fficient delivery of EU support, not only in the field of local private sector development, but also in other areas of EU development cooperation such as sustainable energy, sustainable agriculture and agribusiness, digital and physical infrastructure, and the green and social sectors.

Cécile, who is Belgian, and her husband Nicolás, an Argentinian citizen, go to live in another EU country and, as soon as they settle there, Nicolás successfully passes an interview for a job in a local company.

Considers that the ERDF and the Cohesion Fund can contribute to meeting the targets under Directive 2009/28/EC and the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy, as well as funding research and innovation in connection with renewable energy generation, while supporting job creation and economic growth; underlines the importance of thematic concentration within cohesion policy, since this should contribute to channelling investment towards the low-carbon economy, including renewable energies, especially in the light of the prominent role of the thematic objective ‘Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors’; calls on the Member States to increase their efforts and make best use of the funding opportunities existing for th ...[+++]is purpose, while underlining the opportunities for local business development and job creation; recalls the common provisions in the ERDF and the Cohesion Fund supporting the eligibility of projects related to energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources in private households, public buildings and enterprises, and believes that regional renewable energy market integration, which could be achieved through such funding, would represent an important contribution of cohesion policy in this respect.

promoting actions aiming at creating more and better jobs, by developing the competitiveness and resilience of local microenterprises and SMEs and their integration into the local, regional and global economy, assisting developing countries to integrate into regional and multilateral trading systems.