Traduction de «Environmental distribution » (Anglais → Français) :

We'd like to provide a brief overview of environmental assessment and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act before concluding with some remarks on how it links to the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the proposed changes to the act. I'll be following a short deck, which I understand has been distributed.

A further point: information should also be given to consumers and SMEs, two essential links in the economic chain, which have a crucial role to play in distributing these ecological products on the market. Consumers should be informed about the environmental performance of the products, and SMEs should be given financial and technical help to manufacture these more environmentally friendly products.

This applies to energy production, supply and consumption as well as to transmission and distribution capacities, where embedded generation can contribute much 'virtual' capacity. This 'virtual' capacity relieves the existing system infrastructure and avoids environmental impacts that an increase in the capacity of transmission and distribution systems would have.

The deficiencies noted in this area highlight once again the urgent need for an operational European Environment Agency; - to step up research and development efforts in order to have a better understanding of the problems to be resolved and to encourage the development of technologies which use resources more economically and have less impact on the environment; - to develop information, education and training so as to increase the transparency of the decision-making process, to promote an understanding of the problems, and in so doing to promote a consensus among the various players and a commitment on their part; - to promote sectoral and spatial planning to ensure a more balanced geographical ...[+++]distribution of productive activities, in line with both environmental concerns and socio-economic imperatives; - to encourage the use of economic and fiscal instruments so as to reconcile market forces and environmental objectives by internalizing external costs in the price of products and the charges paid by users of goods and services; - 4 - - to incorporate environmental concerns more systematically in Community and national financial instruments so as to increase the effectiveness of their operations and their impact over time.

On 28 November the Commission adopted the principles underlying a proposal for a Regulation designed to establish a Community system for awarding an environmental label to products which are less harmful to the environment and whose overall environmental impact - i.e. their impact during production, distribution, consumption or use, and disposal after use - is much less significant than that of other products in the same category.

Structural Funds will support in particular the measures listed below: - infrastructure measures to protect the environment, in particular * reclamation of derelict industrial sites and restoration of derelict commercial areas including the necessary decontamination * investments in waste water treatment and refuse disposal * water supply and distribution - investment of the productive sector in environmental improvement and clean technologies - productive investment in connection with business start-ups, setting-up, extension, ration ...[+++]alisation and restructuring of enterprises which can unequivocally be related to environmental improvement - introduction of services and environmental agencies for giving advice and information Priority 5 - Measures to promote the development of human resource, vocational training and further training as well as employment The strategy to develop human resources and employment and to combat unemployment - in line with the White Paper - will concentrate the efforts of the ESF on the following priorities: - measures for training, retraining and lifetime learning; assistance with finding a job; help for those who have lost their jobs, are threatened with unemployment of who are in employment but need to have their qualifications brought into line with market needs and new technologies; - measures for target groups which concentrate on one of the following areas: a) improved access for young people to initial training and the transition to the labour market including Youth start measures; b) improvement in the opportunities for employment and training for unemployed persons who are difficult to place in work, long-term unemployed persons threatened with exclusion from the labour market; c) improvement of vocational qualification and (re)integration of women into the labour market in all areas of the economy. - technical assistance measures together with pilot and demonstration projects.