However, office supplies as well as all kinds of small administrative consumables, supplies, hospitality costs and general services (such as telephone, Internet, postage, office cleaning, utilities, insurance, staff training, recruitment, etc.) are not direct eligible costs; they are included in indirect costs, as referred to in point II. 2.

Those activities may involve services requiring the proximity of provider and recipient, services requiring travel by the recipient or the provider and services which may be provided at a distance, including via the Internet.

Those activities may involve services requiring the proximity of provider and recipient, services requiring travel by the recipient or the provider and services which may be provided at a distance, including via the Internet.

JHS129 emphasises equality of access for different users using different technologies; it makes a requirement of testing pages with several browsers and operating systems; it makes specific Web-page design recommendations; and it requires that there must be alternatives to Web-based public services (e.g. telephone services).

Social economy: there are many different types of organisations active in the social economy (cooperatives, mutual societies, associations, foundations, firms), all working in wide variety of fields (competitive markets, health services, neighbourhood services, sports activities, entertainment, youth employment and combating social exclusion). They account for some 5% of total employment in the European Union. Priority assistance in this sector should be given to active support for the creation and development of service suppliers, by means of information, training, advice, financial and technical assistance and support to ensure the lon ...[+++]ger-term survival of newly-created activities.

To clarify the status of a number of services normally provided near the coast (e.g. towing, pilotage, dredging), it is useful to recall the general legal framework applying to the provision of services.