Traduction de «environmental measure » (Anglais → Français) :

The new rules will include value sharing clauses to be negotiated by every product sector, and give farmers the right to ask for a written contract for the first time (unless trading with SMEs); Simpler risk management tools to help farmers, including a sector-specific income stabilisation tool and improvements to insurance schemes that will allow compensation of up to 70% for farmers whose production or income is cut by at least 20%; Clearer rules governing intervention in markets, allowing the Commission to act rapidly to address market failures without having to use public intervention or private storage measures; Greater flexibility for Member States to support specific sectors of economic, social or environmental importance through ...[+++]voluntary coupled support, even when these sectors are not in crisis; Clearer rules on support for farmers, notably through more flexibility on the definition of active farmers and stronger incentives for young farmers, with an increase in additional payments from 25% to 50% and guaranteeing all young farmers the right to the full five-year allowance for these payments, regardless of when they apply for them within their first five years of their setting-up; Improved environmental measures including simpler rules on crop diversification and the addition of three new types of ecological focus area focused on nitrogen-fixing crops, giving farmers and national authorities more options to suit their particular circumstances.

There are a number of types of environmental measures governments could take that would trigger liability under the MAI. Some of these measures might include toxic seepage remediation orders; changes to existing concession licences to protect fisheries, flora or fauna; changes to land use regulations causing harm to the property of a foreign investor; preventative measures to protect public safety that cause loss or harm to foreign investors; or requirements that only environmentally acceptable resource extraction techniques be used to pass along costs to foreign investors.

With regard to regulatory measures that have this trade-distorting impact, what the panel was highlighting was that of the eight or nine cases that have considered that issue, XX(g) environment in this case, every single one of them was fundamentally litigated, not over a legitimate environmental measure but over a trade-distorting or protectionist measure that was cast as an environmental issue.

Mr. Speaker, I cannot let the comments on environmental measures go by without expressing my serious concern about the demonizing of environmental groups that the government has engaged in.

The measures in the budget bill that the Liberals opposite propose to vote against include: $1.5 billion for environmental measures through the ecotrust; $600 million to support provinces and territories to put in place the wait times guarantee for health care; $570 million to Ontario for post-secondary education; $54 million for the Northwest Territories to cover payments relating to the previous formula arrangements; and environmentally, $30 million to the Great Bear Rainforest and the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia.

Hon. Sheila Copps (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment): The Department of Environment will continue to ensure that the regulatory impact analysis statements (RIAS) fulfil the Treasury Board requirements in terms of providing clear and concise information on: 1. the rationale for the environmental measure (regulations or economic instrument); 2. an assessment of alternatives to the selected environmental measure; 3. evaluation of both costs and benefits (quantifiable where possible); 4. the comments received in the course of the consultation period; and 5. how the environmental measure will be enforced.