« L’Europe ne se fera pas en un jour, ni sans heurts.», dixit Monsieur Robert Schuman. Tel est le constat qui peut encore être fait à l’heure actuelle avec l’adoption, après trente ans d’intenses débats au niveau européen, de la Societas Europaea, introduite en droit français avec la loi du 26 juillet 2005 pour la confiance et la modernisation de l’économie, complétée par les décrets du 14 avril 2006 et du 9 novembre 2006. La même analyse peut s’appliquer à la proposition du règlement de la commission européenne relatif au statut de la société privée européenne faite le 25 juin 2008, en cours d’examen devant le Parlement Européen. Il s’agit de démontrer l’existence de normes communautaires flexibles propices au développement des normes statutaires, à l'image de celles applicables à la société privée européenne (SPE) d'origine communautaire et d'essence contractuelle. La SPE doit être analysée comme structure sociétaire, symbole de l’émancipation du droit communautaire et vecteur du principe de libre établissement des sociétés, à la fois par rapport à sa « grande cousine », la société européenne, et à travers l’étude des normes communautaires comme éléments nécessaires au bon fonctionnement des structures européennes.La question est enfin de savoir si le recours à la SPE constitue un instrument pertinent dans les opérations de restructuration intra-communautaire. Deux axes de réflexion semblent s’imposer : l’aménagement des relations contractuelles intragroupe via le modèle de la SPE et la SPE comme élément moteur dans le cadre des opérations de fusion intracommunautaire. / “Europe will not be made in a day, nor without any clashes,” according to Mr Robert Schuman. The statement proved to be true with the adoption, after thirty years of intense debates at the European level, of Societas Europaea, introduced into French law with the bill of July 26, 2005 for the confidence and modernization of the economy, supplemented by the decrees of April 14, 2006 and November 9, 2006. The same analysis can be made of the European Commission proposals for the regulations relating to the statute of the European private company made on June 25, 2008, and now under consideration before the European Parliament. The question is to show the existence of flexible Community standards favourable to the development of statutory standards, in the image of those applicable to the European Private Company of Community origin and which is contractual in essence. The European Private Company should be analysed as a member structure and a symbol of the emancipation of Community legislation as well as a vector of the principle of free establishment of companies both in relation to its “big cousin,” the European Company, and through the study of Community standards as necessary elements to the correct operation of European structures. The next step is to question if resorting to the European Private Company constitutes a relevant instrument in the operations of intracommunitarian reorganization following two main lines of investigation: the adjustment of contractual intragroup relations via the model of the European Private Company and the European Private Company as a mainspring within the framework of intracommunitarian fusion operations.

隨網際網路、行動載具及數位科技之進步，金融服務之提供不再受限於地域上之隔閡。邇來，有許多國際性投資銀行擬透過其所經營之網路交易平台向我國投資人提供證券經紀服務，然因我國現今並未開放外國證券商得跨境提供我國投資人證券經紀服務，在相關規範上付之闕如。 然而，法律上之禁止並無法阻止科技進步興起之跨境證券活動浪潮。如有朝一日我國擬開放外國證券商跨境提供我國投資人證券經紀等金融服務時，應採取何種規範方式及相關規範內容為何，有其討論之需要性及必要性。 按此，本文首先將介紹我國現行證券商相關之規範制度，後參酌美國、澳洲及德國對於外國證券商跨境提供其國內投資人證券經紀服務之規範方式及內容，輔以國際證券管理機構組織所歸納使用於跨境證券活動之三種規範制度，嘗試提出我國對外國證券商跨境提供我國投資人證券經紀服務得採行之規範方式及內容之建議。 本文研究結果建議，我國應針對不同身分別之投資人分別採用國民待遇規範制度及認可規範制度。即在非屬專業投資人部分，採用國民待遇規範制度；而在專業投資人部分，採用認可規範制度。同時，建議就有關跨境提供證券經紀服務之開放可分階段進行。最後，針對我國現行證交法及其相關規定，本文亦參考美國、澳洲及德國在相關規範架構下之細部規定，提出法規修正之建議及我國可能可以考慮之細部規範內容。 在跨境金融服務興起的今日，重新思考及架構一套符合證券及金融市場國際化之規範架構及方式是一個必經的歷程，希望透過本文之研究結果及建議，能幫助我國在此波金融國際化之浪潮中立足國際。 / With the progress of the Internet, mobile vehicles and digital technology, the provision of financial service is no longer limited to geographical barriers. Recently, there are a lots of international investment banks intend to provide securities brokerage services to our domestic investors through their electronic trading platform. However, since Taiwan is not yet open to foreign securities firms to provide securities brokerage service to our domestic investors on a cross-border basis, there is lack of any relevant regulation. Nonetheless, the legal prohibition on the provision of service on a cross-border basis can not stem the tide of the cross-border securities activities resulted by the technological advancement. If one day Taiwan opens the foreign securities firms to provide securities brokerage services and/ or other financial services to our domestic investors on a cross-border basis, it is necessary and a must for Taiwan to consider what regulatory model and what regulations should be taken. Given the above, this study will first introduce the current regulatory regime related to the securities firms in Taiwan, and then take the regulatory regime and regulations governing the foreign securities firms providing securities brokerage service to the domestic investors on a cross-border basis adopted by the US, Australia and Germany and the three types of regulatory regimes summed up by the IOSCO, which are used for the regulation of cross-border securities activities, into account to try to propose the suggestions on the possible regulatory regime and regulations for Taiwan to adopt for this issue. The results of this study suggest that Taiwan should adopt the regulatory tools called National Treatment and Recognition and used them depend on the type of investor. That is, as to the non-professional investor, Taiwan should adopt National Treatment to regulate the cross-border securities brokerage service; and as to the professional investor, Taiwan should adopt Recognition to regulate the same. At the same time, this study suggests the cross- border provision of securities brokerage service could be considered to be opened by phases. Finally, as to the current Taiwan Securities and Exchange Act and its relevant regulations, this study also provide the proposed amendments and the relevant details by making reference to the regulations adopted by the US, Australia and Germany under the regulatory regime of each of them. In today’s world, it is a must to rethink and structure a regulatory regime and regulations that conform to the internationalization of securities and financial markets. It is hopeful that the results and suggestions in this study could assist Taiwan to gain a footing in the arena of the international financial market.

近年來傳統線上購物正面臨著一連串的市場困境，如削價競爭、廉價品競爭等，因此導致銷售量之成長趨緩，反觀跨境線上購物卻出現了蓬勃發展的態勢，因而讓跨境線上購物成為驅動經濟活動與國際貿易的新引擎。另一方面，由於跨境線上購物的情境複雜性遠高於傳統的境內線上購物，業者們欲開發一海外新市場，必須先了解該地消費者行為與其購買決策過程後，才能制定出好的商業策略，並且進一步將產品導向的服務轉化成為以顧客導向的服務，才有機會為傳統線上購物之困境另闢生機。因此，引取並了解消費者所體認的內在價值是經營跨境線上購物最重要的成功因素。 本研究將試圖將傳統境內線上購物研究擴展到跨境線上購物議題，藉由文字探勘(Text Mining)分析、語意情感分析與 k-means 分群演算法，挖掘出消費者對於所購買商品之評論的常見內容型態與所購買商品之類別，並試圖找出跨境網購平台上各項因素及商品評論對於產品銷售量間之關連性，提供未來研究者及跨境網購平台業者決策之依據。 / While online shopping websites are facing the difficulties of price and low-quality competition, cross-border online shopping is on a vigorous development trend, showing that cross-border online shopping is an important trend of online shopping field. Due to the complexity of cross-border online shopping is much higher than the traditional domestic online shopping, so understanding the value of cross-border online shopping consumers is the most important success factors. Companies want to develop new markets abroad, must understand the local consumer’s behaviour and their decision-making process in order to make good business strategies. This study uses text mining analytic technology, semantic analysis techniques, and k-means clustering algorithm to identify characteristics of consumers’ reviews and the common categories of goods they purchased. After getting the reason why consumers use cross-border online shopping service and what values they got in this service. Researcher can predict and analyse the evolution and development of cross-border online shopping, provide reference for future online shopping academic studies and online shopping industry’s decision-making.

<p>In theory, the phrase "mergers and acquisitions" (abbreviated M&A) refers to buying, selling and combining different companies in order to gain improved financial performance, create a global presence, and face the global competitive market. Nevertheless, many researches have underlined the high rate of failure among M&A, and the difficulty to achieve expected results and synergies. Among the reasons of failure, many analysts have pointed out the determinant influence of the cultural aspect in the success or the failure of a cross-border merger. However, the cultural issue in M&A is often neglected and too less stressed.</p><p>In order to have a better understanding of the cultural aspect in the merger and acquisition process, and point out its influence on the merger process as well as the corporate culture, we first present a theoretical part introducing the cross-border merger and acquisition concept with the perspective of the national culture, and the role that leaders could play in order to limit the negative impact of culture and the clashes on cross-border M&A. Therefore, a part including three cases of "cultural failure" in the merger process illustrates the concepts explained in the theoretical part. Those well-known cases are: DaimlerChrysler, UpJohn & Pharmacia, and Volvo – Renault. The cases show how the cultural issue had been underestimated and had implied cultural clashes and extra-costs for the companies involved.</p><p>After concluding our findings, we end the thesis with a prospective part based on the possible evolution of the merger and acquisition market. Indeed, we believe that our research topic will gain importance in the future, and the influence of culture on M&A deals may increase.</p>

本研究利用亞洲九個國家，自1995至2005年共十一年的資料，以固定效果模型對外人直接投資進入模式的外溢效果進行估計，探討外人直接投資進入模式與國家的勞動生產力之間的關係？另外，本文也研究外人直接投資的進入模式在高低技術及高低收入國家間是否會產生不同的外溢效果？　　 實證結果發現，跨國併購的行為剛進入時，並不會帶來顯著的外溢效果，然而只要一國的人力資本達到一定的門檻時，跨國併購便會為地主國帶來正向的外溢效果。而外商新建投資，可為當地市場產生正向的外溢效果。而透過技術能力的增進後，外商新建投資會帶來正向且顯著的外溢效果。 其次，在中低收入(技術)國家，外商新建投資透過人力資本的加乘後，也會產生顯著的正向外溢效果。 / The research adopts eleven-year of information from nine different Asian countries to evaluate the impact of spillover effect from the entry mode of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the national labor productivity. That is to construct a fixed-effects model studying, utilizing the information from nine Asian countries on FDI flows from 1995 to 2005. Moreover, the research also test the different spillover effect of entry mode between high-tech/high-incomed and low-tech/low-incomed countries. The empirical result shows that when first initiates a cross-border mergers or acquisitions, it doesn’t obviously result in the spillover effect. Thus, a country will has higher productivity of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, only when it has a minimum threshold stock of human capital. The foreign greenfield investment may have the positive spillover effect over the local market. And the higher the technology ,the higher the positive spillover effect of the foreign greenfield investment Lastly, in a low-tech/low-incomeed country,it will has higher productivity of foreign greenfield investment, also when it has a minimum threshold stock of human capital.

本研究係以民國81年1月1日至民國90年12月31日間曾從事併購行為之國內53家上市櫃公司為研究樣本，取其併購前後五年之財務資料，利用資料包落分析法計算其整體技術效率、純技術效率、規模效率值，再依據目標公司是否位於國內為併購類型的分類標準，探討併購活動與併購類型是否影響主併公司績效。 本研究實證結果如下： 一、在不考慮併購類型的情況下，併購前後對於整體技術效率、純技術效率與規模效率呈現不顯著的正向關係，表示併購後效率雖然有提升，但未達顯著水準。 二、在未區別併購前後的情況下，雖然併購類型對於整體技術效率與純技術效率均呈正向關係，與規模效率則呈負向關係，但三種效率值皆未達到統計上顯著水準，表示進行國內併購與跨國併購的主併公司在效率上沒有太大差異。 三、跨國併購後在整體技術效率、純技術效率與規模效率均呈現正向關係，並且在整體技術效率與純技術效率達到統計上顯著水準，表示「國際化網路」假說確實存在。 / In this research, we based on the companies that listed in Taiwan Security Exchange or the OTC which had domestic or foreign acquisitions over the period from 1992 to 2001. Using these firms’ five years financial data before and after acquisitions, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis to measure efficiency and compare the performance of firms following domestic or foreign acquisitions. The major research finding as follows. First, if we do not consider the type of acqusiontion, domestic or foreign, the results denote that there is no efficiency difference before or after acquisitions. Second, after we control before or after acquisitions, the results demonstrate that there is no efference difference between domestic and foreign acquisions. Third, after we control the cross effects between acquisition time and acquisition types, the results show that after foreign acquisitions the merger companies increase efficiency significantly, which confirms “Positive Multinational Network Hypothesis”.

Ignorées à l’origine par le droit de l’Union européenne, les collectivités locales s’inscrivent pourtant dans les enjeux de l’intégration européenne et s’imposent en qualité de « quasi-sujet » du droit de l’Union européenne.A l’échelle de l’Union européenne, les collectivités locales sont associées de plus en plus à l’élaboration et à la mise en oeuvre des politiques de l’UE. Cependant, leur action reste dépendante des cadres étatiques qui édifient des limites institutionnelles à une participation plus accrue. L’Etat demeure l’acteur institutionnel par excellence.En dépit de ces obstacles, les collectivités locales parviennent à élaborer des stratégies pour influer sur le processus décisionnel en utilisant une diversité de canaux formels et informels.Enfin, elles participent directement à la mise en évidence d’un territoire de l’Union européenne. L’ingénierie locale constitue alors un atout pour l’avenir de l’Union, qui consciente des différences et de la diversité de son territoire, adapte ses politiques et ancre de plus en plus sa démarche dans les préceptes de la Multi level governance (ou gouvernance multi-niveaux). L’émergence de ce modèle de gouvernance est censée pérenniser les acquis et la poursuite de la construction européenne, tout en respectant les traditions constitutionnelles nationales.Ainsi, l’objet de cette thèse est d’envisager les rapports complexes entre l’Union européenne et les collectivités locales. Cette étude ouvre alors sur des perspectives territoriales nouvelles intéressant directement l’Union européenne et inspire une réflexion sur le rôle de ces pouvoirs infra-étatiques dans une Union qui s’inscrit aussi dans un monde globalisé. / For a long time, the European Union has not known about the local and regional authorities.However, local and regional level is a real asset to the Union. They become some almost subject of the European Union.Indeed, local and regional authorities currently have significant powers in key sectors such as education, environment, economic development, land use planning, public services and social policies. They implement the European legislation. Therefore, they also help ensure the exercise of European democracy and citizenship.Despite some significant advances in terms of recognizing their role in the European process, their actions are controlled by their national’s institutional architecture. And as the Union respects the constitutional autonomy of the Member States, which order their relations with regional and local authorities in different ways, it is really complicated to organize relations between European level and local and regional level.In spite of these impediments, the local authorities succeed in establishing strategies in order to be closely involved in shaping and implementing European strategies.Finally, the local authorities also take part into the construction of a European territory.Indeed, the diversity of the local and regional situations shows that it could be a chance. European policies have to be set up to the disparities and the local level is involved into the European decision making process.By another way, the recognition of the key role played by local and regional authorities in the European Union is developing a multilevel vision in the relations between the European actors. If the member States stay the institutional speaker of the European process, their local authorities succeed in integrating the European level. The multi level governance (MLG) has attracted the European Union. The MLG should coordinate action by the European level, the member states and local and regional authorities.This thesis shows the complicated relations between the European Union and the local authorities. Territorial perspectives and new objectives and tools should drive the European Union towards a better democratic integration

資訊時代下全球化造成了流動空間的出現，亦促進了網絡社會的崛起；其影響不僅擴及政治、社會、經濟層面，更形成了全球犯罪經濟的現象。臺灣境內詐欺犯罪從過去當面直接接觸，轉為透過電信或網路間接接觸的詐騙形式；在政府的全面查緝及兩岸共同打擊犯罪之下，近年來電信詐欺集團呈現向外擴散跨越國境乃至全球的趨勢。此類全球犯罪網絡的相關實證研究至今仍極為缺乏，因此，本研究旨在討論前述犯罪機會、空間分工及社會網絡如何形成跨境電信詐欺犯罪網絡，及其背後的特殊運作機制。 　　經由文獻探討法、現有資料統計分析法及深度訪談18名受訪者（受刑人11名、偵查人員4名、駐外聯絡官3名），本研究發現犯罪機會同時影響空間分工及社會網絡，這三個重要指標亦型塑了跨境電信詐欺的犯罪網絡。詐欺集團利用各類犯罪機會（犯罪者、標的物、監控缺乏及手法工具的聚合，其中監控包含國家、網路與金融管制層面），結合空間移動、分工與第三地機制，社會網絡強弱連帶與第三方機制，形成特殊運作機制，促使詐欺網絡成為無遠弗屆的全球犯罪體系；核心組成員與第三方既是連結也是斷點的關係，更是其中的運作關鍵。透過此種犯罪網絡分析，可深入瞭解全球跨境犯罪的運作概略，進而形成應對防治作法及刑事政策建議。 / In the Information Age, globalization has brought about the emergence of space of flows and the rise of network society. Its influence not only extends to the political, social, and economic levels, but also forms the global criminal economy. In Taiwan, fraud has occurred from direct contact format (such as face-to-face) to indirect ones (such as via telephones and the Internet). Owing to the government's comprehensive investigation and the cross-strait joint criminal judicial co-operation, the telecoms fraud groups recently have traveled across borders and even to the whole world. As the relevant research based on empirical data is scant, this research aims to discuss how criminal opportunities, spatial division of labor, and social networks construct a cross-border telecommunications fraud criminal network and the special operational mechanism behind it. In this research, I reviewed the relevant literature, analyzed empirical data, and then conducted in-depth interviews with 18 respondents which include 11 prisoners, 4 criminal investigators and 3 police liaison officers. It is concluded that criminal opportunities would influence the spatial division of labor and social networks within criminal groups; these three important indicators formulate the criminal network of cross-border telecommunications fraud. A special operational mechanism combining various criminal opportunities (the convergence of offenders, targets, absence of guardians, and means; in which guardians include the level of national, cyber and financial regulations), spatial mobility and division of labor with the third-place mechanism, and strong and weak ties of social networks with the third-person mechanism, transforms fraud networks into a far-reaching global criminal system. The relationship between core group members and the third-person is not only a link but also a breakpoint, and it is undoubtedly the operational key. Ultimately, this research paints a clear picture of the global criminal networks and thus will possibly benefit the development of future criminal prevention and correction policies.

Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'harmonisation des langues africaines transfrontalières à tradition écrite émergente au moyen des Technologies de l’information et de la communication. / La langue, objet principal de la linguistique, se trouve également au carrefour d’autres disciplines connexes, toute chose qui repose la problématique de l’interdisciplinarité. Dans la présente thèse, il a été question des langues africaines transfrontalières, notamment le Peul abordé sous l’angle de sa dotation pour un enseignement-apprentissage plus efficient dans un contexte africain où les TIC ne sont plus nouvelles. En effet, les sources écrites du savoir en Peul sont d’exploitation très localisées. Ainsi, un journal, un livre de lecture ou de mathématique produit au Sénégal est inutilisable par les apprenants du Burkina Faso. Il se pose alors un problème d’harmonisation du Peul, objet de la présente thèse qui porte plus exactement sur l’harmonisation du Peul par les TIC pour un enseignement-apprentissage plus efficient. L’harmonisation du Peul qui ne saurait exclure du processus aucun de ses parlers qui sont de véritables richesses (Daff, 2004) participe de son utilisation à des fins d’enseignement-apprentissage plus efficient, l’efficience étant le rapport entre le niveau d’efficacité et les ressources (Gérard, 2001). Pour que le Peul, médium linguistique, participe effectivement d’un enseignement-apprentissage plus efficient, les TIC constituent un outil précieux, elles qui donnent «l’occasion de repenser et de délocaliser, dans le temps et dans l’espace, les échanges entre les enseignants et les élèves et favorisent ainsi la création de nouvelles avenues pour des activités d’apprentissage» (Karsenti, 2004, p. 268). Aussi, les objectifs de la présente étude ont-ils été les suivants : mieux comprendre comment les TIC peuvent aider à lever les defis de l’harmonisation de la terminologie et de l’orthographe du Peul ; mieux comprendre dans quelle mesure la diffusion de ressources peules sur Internet a un impact sur « l’évolution positive » de cette langue ; mieux comprendre comment les TIC peuvent rendre plus efficient l’enseignement-apprentissage du Peul. Pour atteindre les objectifs de la recherche, nous avons eu recours à une méthodologie ayant accordé une place de choix aux TIC dans la collecte des données. La thèse étant rédigée par articles, chacun des objectifs a été mis en relation avec l’un des trois articles. Du reste, l’étude fait ressortir que les TIC contribuent efficacement à l’harmonisation du Peul pour un enseignement-apprentissage plus efficient. / Language, the principal object of linguistics, is also located at the crossroads of other disciplines, anything that lies the issue of interdisciplinarity. In this thesis, it was question of cross-border African languages, including Fulani discussed in terms of its allocation for a teaching / learning process more efficient in an African context where ICT is no longer new. Indeed, the written sources of knowledge in Fulani are very localized. Thus, a newspaper, a book reading or mathematics produced in Senegal is unusable by learners of Burkina Faso. This raises a problem of harmonization of the Fulani, subject of this thesis which focuses exactly on the harmonization of the Fulani of ICT for teaching / learning process more efficient. The harmonization of the Fulani who can not be excluded from the process any of its dialects which are true wealth, part of its use for teaching / learning process more efficient, the efficiency being the ratio between the level of efficiency and resources (Gerard, 2001). For the Fulani, linguistic medium, actually participates in a teaching / learning process more efficient, ICT is a valuable tool, giving them "an opportunity to rethink and relocate in time and space, the exchange between teachers and students and thus promote the creation of new avenues for learning activities "(Karsenti, 2004, p. 268). Therefore, the objectives of this study have they been: better understanding of how ICT can promote harmonization of terminology and spelling of the Fulani; better understand how the distribution of Fulani resources on the Internet has an impact on the "positive development" that language; better understand how ICT can make more efficient teaching / learning of the Fulani. To achieve the research objectives, we used a methodology which granted a place of ICT in data collection. The thesis being drafted by sections, each objective has been linked with one of three articles. Moreover, the study revealed that ICT effectively contribute to the harmonization of the Fulani to a teaching / learning process more efficient.

L’objectif de ce mémoire vise à exposer les méthodes d’évaluation propres aux tests génétiques. Le mémoire se penche également sur le recours grandissant, par des instances locales, aux services de génétique dispensés par des laboratoires internationaux. Le premier article propose une recension des modèles d'évaluation propres aux tests génétiques et une analyse de leur situation sur le parcours translationnel. L'article expose les origines de ces modèles, leurs attributs et particularités distinctives et spécifie le public cible auquel ils sont destinés. L'analyse comparative des modèles d'évaluation permet de mettre en relief leurs apports et limites respectives. Les critères évaluatifs de chaque modèles sont situés le long du parcours translationnel permettant de mettre en évidence les types d'évaluations nécessaires à chacune des phases de progression des tests génétiques le long du continuum menant à leur utilisation. Le second article adopte une tangente pragmatique et se penche sur l'utilisation effective des tests génétiques dans un centre hospitalier universitaire pédiatrique. Plus spécifiquement, l'article dresse un portrait exhaustif de l'ensemble des tests génétiques moléculaires réalisés à l’extérieur du Québec par le CHU Sainte-Justine en 2009 étant donné l’augmentation des tests disponibles internationalement comparativement à ceux offerts à l’interne. Vu la globalisation des envois d'échantillons vers des laboratoires localisés à l'étranger, l'objectif est de décrire l’état de la situation actuelle et d’identifier des cibles potentielles pour l’amélioration des processus et le développement de tests localement. L'évaluation des tests génétiques est abordée sous une double perspective: les considérations normatives liées à l'évaluation des tests génétiques tel que préconisé par les différents modèles d'évaluation ainsi que d'un point de vue pratique dans le contexte particulier d'un centre hospitalier universitaire. / The objective of this paper is to outline the genetic tests evaluation methods. The paper also examines the growing use of genetic services provided by international laboratories. The first article provides a review of the evaluation models specific to genetic testing and an analysis of their location on the translational pathway. The article outlines the origins of these models, their attributes and distinctive features and specifies the target audience to which they are intended. The comparative analysis of evaluation models highlights their strengths and limitations. The evaluative criteria of each model are located along the translational pathway to highlight the types of evaluations required at each stage of the genetic tests leading to their use. The second article focuses on the effective use of genetic testing in a pediatric university hospital centre. More specifically, the article provides a comprehensive overview of all molecular genetic tests done outside of Québec by the CHU Sainte-Justine in 2009 due to the increase of available tests internationally compared to those offered in-house. The objective is to describe the state of the current situation and identify potential targets for process improvement and development of local testing. The evaluation of genetic tests is approached from two perspectives: normative considerations related to the evaluation of genetic tests as recommended by the various evaluation models as well as a practical point of view in a university hospital.