Traduction de «European Information Centre for Nature Conservation » (Anglais → Français) :

The European Commission has approved funding for 54 nature conservation projects, situated in 20 Member States or acceding countries, under the LIFE Nature programme.

P. whereas the European Environment Agency Topic Centre for Nature Conservation has had a crucial role as manager and scientific adviser on assessment of Member States" proposals for Natura 2000 sites; whereas this body must be able to continue to carry out this work with appropriate financial and human resources; whereas the European Environment Agency has played a central role in providing comparable information ...[+++] concerning the condition of ecosystems and species, as well as the results of protective measures; whereas the Commission plays a decisive role and whereas sufficient staff resources should be made available for it to fulfil its duties,

74. Considers it essential that companies based in the EU comply with EU environmental standards when operating and/or investing in the candidate countries, asks the Commission to negotiate such an 'environmental code of conduct' with UNICE; emphasises that all EU pre-accession aid should be compatible with the EU approach of integrating environmental considerations into other policies and to this end requests the Commission to make and publish environmental impact assessments of all EU-financed pre-accession projects and plans, including loans from the EIB, prior to putting these funds into operation, and demands that in making such lo ...[+++]ans within the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the EIB greatly improve the transparency of its practices and general policies on providing information to the public; calls on the competent authorities to examine ways in which more funding can be made available for the direct support of nature conservation both before and after accession, for example by broadening the criteria under which ISPA funds can be allocated to environmental projects so that these criteria include nature conservation activities, particularly the identification of suitable sites for Natura 2000 and the subsequent management of such sites;

The single most important piece of European Union (EU) nature conservation legislation, the Habitats Directive Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild flora and fauna (OJ L206 of 22.7.1992) has as its principal goal the establishment of Natura 2000, an EU-wide network of sites for the conservation of animal an ...[+++]d plant species and habitats of European importance.

In addition, specific tasks are carried out under contract by the European Topic Centres, which have been established to address priority areas such as inland waters, marine and coastal environment, air quality, air emissions, nature conservation, soil and forests, and land cover.

I go on in my brief to provide you with the contact information: the web addresses for several cooperative efforts which are working right now on that very vision, including the Northern Great Plains Conservation Initiative, which is a joint project of Nature Conservancy Canada, the Nature Conservancy in Montana, and a tri-national North American Grasslands Conservation Initiative, a flagship project of the Commission for Environme ...[+++]ntal Cooperation.