(p)adopt rules on industrial policy, intellectual property rights and the dissemination of information in agreement with the Commission.

enhancing regional RTD and innovation capacities directly linked to regional economic development objectives by supporting industry or technology-specific competence centres, promoting industrial RTD, SMEs and technology transfer, developing technology forecasting and international benchmarking of policies to promote innovation and supporting inter-firm collaboration and joint RTD and innovation policies;

enhancing regional RTD and innovation capacities directly linked to regional economic development objectives by supporting industry or technology-specific competence centres, promoting industrial RTD, SMEs and technology transfer, developing technology forecasting and international benchmarking of policies to promote innovation and supporting inter-firm collaboration and joint RTD and innovation policies.

Our trading partners (e.g. the United States, Japan and Australia) have acknowledged the need for an active promotion policy and implemented their own effective policies backed by substantial financial resources to maintain or increase their shares of the world market.

E-business policies for SMEs should preferably be channelled through trusted intermediaries and multipliers such as Chambers of Commerce, professional associations, SME support networks, Euro Info Centres, competence centres or other special institutions.

(12) structural measures not directly related to the production of wine should fall within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repeating certain Regulations(44); measures related to promotion make an important contribution to the sector's competitive performance and notably the promotion of Community wine on third-country markets should be stimulated; however, in order to ensure consistency with the general promotion policy of the Community, measures related to the wine sector should fall wit ...[+++]hin the scope of horizontal rules on this matter; for this purpose, the Commission has submitted a proposal for a Regulation on measures to promote and provide information on agricultural products in third countries(45);