Übersetzung für "Übernahmerichtlinie" in Englisch

One of the things you spoke about, Mr Prodi, was the takeover bids directive.

This was broached for the first time when we discussed the Take-Over Directive.

That also applies to the Takeover Directive mentioned by Mrs McCarthy and others.

I would in particular like to mention the takeover directive, the new merger regime and public procurement procedures.

This takeovers directive was and is an important part of the final implementation of the European single market.

I will give you an example that occurred this week, namely Commissioner Bolkestein's Take-Over Directive.

At the time when we negotiated the Takeover Directive, we became aware of these differences.

In addition, a modified Take-over Bids Directive will be proposed after its unexpected rejection by the European Parliament.

An agreement has been struck between Council and Parliament on the text of a new take-overs directive.

The protection of workers was at the centre of the EUCDW's action against the planned Take-over Directive.

The principle of having a takeover directive has been supported at first and second readings and now, after 12 years, we have a final agreed text.

Ideally, we should have liked to have seen a kind of package deal emerge, combining the Take-over Directive and the European Company Directive, which would also have taken care of aspects related to participation, information and consultation.

We should like this to be done in a non-Anglo-Saxon manner, as I indicated in connection with the Take-over Directive.

In the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, we have been looking into the probable employment effects of this takeover bids directive.

The takeover directive, as I know you agree, Commissioner, is a key component of financial services in single markets.

Furthermore, France’s adoption of the directive on takeover bids, which the National Assembly will, after a long silence, take up tomorrow, gives cause for concern.

A point I want to make with regard to this takeover directive is to bring the argument very firmly back to millions of electors in my country and millions of people who have pension plans and savings that are based upon investments in the stock market.

That is something that everyone in the European Union is going to have to tackle and this takeover directive, in the final form that comes through has to address that issue.

May I first of all use up a small proportion of my valuable speaking time to congratulate you on the excellent work you have done in the Conciliation Committee with regard to the Takeover Directive?

Immediately before the summer recess, we experienced the difficult situation involving the Take-over Directive, the social aspect of which, in particular, appeared unacceptable to a majority of this House.

I am thinking of something that happened yesterday during a hearing concerning the Takeover Directive.

Certainly calling it a takeover directive is a misnomer and would probably be a breach of the United Kingdom's Trades Descriptions Act.

I am also concerned that in the field of financial services, as was the case in the takeover directive, there is the temptation to emulate what we think is happening in the United States.

Nevertheless, as far back as October 2005, Mr McCreevy was confirming his determination to undermine the balance that had been reached at the time of the debate on the Directive on takeover bids, even before the workings of that directive had been evaluated and, what is more, even before that directive had been completely transposed into the Member States' domestic law.

Another reason why it is the way it is is that, back when the Takeovers Directive was being hammered out, it was not possible to secure the acceptance of the 'one share, one vote' principle.

In Article 10 of the Takeovers Directive, we laid down comprehensive rules on transparency according to which all enterprises have to set out openly all the existing obstacles to a takeover.

As far as the directive on takeover bids is concerned, we know it aims at eliminating certain defences applied by companies in takeover situations.

In view of the Council's downright refusal to take this amendment into account, amongst other things, we presented a substantial series of compromise solutions which ranged from the possibility of shareholders holding 20% of the voting rights requesting that a meeting be convened to discuss defensive measures to the introduction of a clause linking the entry into force of the directive on takeover bids to the entry into force of a directive creating a sort of level playing field, that is common rules of play under European company law.