This strengthens and safeguards the competitiveness of networked factories in the future.
"It is important government makes it a priority to safeguard the competitiveness of this important and globally successful sector as we leave the EU," he said.
In terms of humans and the environment, the goals of EC Regulation No. 1107/2009 are '…to ensure a high level of protection of both human and animal health and the environment and at the same time to safeguard the competitiveness of Community agriculture.' [8].
"Markets and competition remain challenging," the Airbus chief executive, Thomas O. Enders, said Tuesday, adding that improving its cost base and its efficiency were necessary to safeguard the long-term competitiveness of the company.
He also promised a high-speed railway line linking St Pancras station in London and the north via a loop to Heathrow.For the prime minister, Gordon Brown, the £9 billion ($13 billion) project has become a personal litmus test of his willingness to take what he calls "the tough, long-term decisions" to safeguard Britain's economic competitiveness.
A strong R&D capability could safeguard innovation rate and product competitiveness in large and medium-sized firms, whereas a resources allocation capability would enhance the sales growth in small firms.
As for maintaining the tariffs, "a majority of steel-consuming firms indicated that neither continuation or termination of the safeguard measures would change employment, international competitiveness, or capital investment," the report said.
And the idea of fining a country that incurs an "excessive" deficit smacks of the absurdity of a Dickensian debtors' prison.Yet it was, and remains, true that Europe's governments had to return to fiscal prudence to safeguard their economies' longer-term health and competitiveness.
Successful companies offer high quality of products or services in order to meet the consumers' expectation, and, at the same time, they safeguard their own profits and increase market competitiveness.
Merkel's real concern is less about safeguarding the European model than reviving European and German competitiveness in the global race for market shares.
