The word 'competences' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to a person's knowledge, abilities, and skills that are necessary for a job. For example, "The applicant's academic proficiency, financial competences, and leadership experience make him an ideal candidate for the position."
By contrast, the so-called "balance of competences" review – hailed by William Hague in 2012 as the "most extensive analysis of the impact of UK membership of the EU ever undertaken" – found no area with a case for transferring powers back from Brussels.
But O'Donnell clears Labour of a conspiracy to mislead, saying: "Policy was progressively developed that HMG should do all it could, whilst respecting devolved competences, to facilitate an appeal by the Libyans to the Scottish government for Megrahi's release under the prisoner transfer agreement or release on compassionate grounds as the best outcome for managing the risks faced by the UK".
BT: "We would be concerned if the benefits – particularly in terms of market access and competitiveness, and valuable EU level action on trade and competition policy, and the single market – were to be jeopardised by a renegotiation of competences where this substantially risked unravelling the existing balance".
British Chambers of Commerce: "We believe this balance of competences to be broadly appropriate.
Roland Rudd, chairman of Business for New Europe, said: "This important review, which was thorough and comprehensive, showed the overall balance of competences to work well for Britain.
For instance, the fad for "core competences" makes it difficult for a western firm to play the Asian game, even if it understands the rules.
British officials say their review of EU competences will serve as much to highlight the benefits of EU membership as to identify the powers to be repatriated.
Other companies are now adopting similar models.The second argument for caution about bundling touches on one of the consultancies' pet subjects: "core competences".
The upcoming renegotiation of the treaty that defines the ITU's competences is regarded as an opportunity to push this agenda.Even Western governments, which usually favour the multi-stakeholder system, would like to rein in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), whose board decides which top-level domains to add (such as.com or.biz).
It tries to transmit mastery of work-related skills (or "competences") rather than command of a particular academic discipline.
Under rules designed to promote student mobility between EU member-states, students can transfer course credits, at the discretion of universities, in any of the 53 countries that have signed the Lisbon Recognition Convention, "regardless of whether the knowledge, skills and competences were acquired through formal, non-formal or informal learning paths".
