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Finally, it is important to note that, by basing the decision approving the Convention on the dual legal basis of Article 133 EC and Article 175(1) EC, the Community is also giving indications to the other parties to the Convention both with regard to the extent of Community competence in relation to that Convention which, as has been shown earlier, falls both within the scope of the common commercial policy and within that of the Community environmental policy, and with regard to the division of compet ...[+++]ences between the Community and its Member States, a division which must also be taken into account at the stage of implementation of the agreement at Community level.

21. Asserts that especially for SMEs the importance of a "local community" perspective must be taken into account; notes that this can cut across the traditional division of CSR into a social, environmental and economic agenda and can result in a wide variety of responses;

21. Asserts that especially for SMEs the importance of "local community" perspective must be taken into account; notes that this can cut across the traditional division of CSR into a social, environmental and economic agenda and can result in a wide variety of responses;

79. Further urges all parties concerned to recognise that nature protection is not achievable solely through the identification and protection of designated areas, but must also be based on general policies which stimulate sustainable economic activity both in the countryside and in urban areas (including recreational pursuits), encourage environmentally friendly agriculture and forestry and the development of the urban and industrial environments, integrate environmental considerations into the broad range of public policy wherever appropriate, most obviously in relation to transport and energy, reduce overall levels of air- and water-b ...[+++]ased pollution, preserve soil quality and other natural resources, and discourage forms of economic activity which lead to the destruction of valuable habitats (such as the draining of wetlands); to this end seek ways to avoid the reproduction of problems characteristic of the EU 15, problems associated with intensive farming, monoculture, displacement of agricultural labour, and a failure to take into account the general and economic value of biodiversity; such ways to include, inter alia, the broad exploitation of possibilities to counter such tendencies (and to encourage, for example, the survival of rural communities, smallholdings, traditional and ecologically friendly methods of field division - such as hedges, water channels and dry stone walls - rare breeds of domestic animal, and ecological corridors) offered by existing budgetary measures such as the EAGGF and the Community Instrument LEADER;

As for the 6th EAP and the possible subsequent thematic Action Programmes, the ESC expects these to contain, among other things: a reflection on the division of labour between different administrative levels and on the need for national (and regional) strategic and sectoral environmental plans; a broad definition of sustainable development implying that the 6 EAP - besides addressing the quality of the living environment within the EU - should also pay attention to the impact of the EU's development model on environmental quality in ...[+++]third countries, on European and global resource use as well as on human health and the quality of life; and long-term qualitative and quantitative objectives at Community level for selected environmental themes together with timetables for their attainment both in the long and medium term.

It is one reason why this has become such a divisive issue in B.C. in communities, in the environmental movement and with First Nations.