Traduction de «flood protection structure » (Anglais → Français) :

12. Calls for the programmes under the European Structural Funds to be evaluated in respect of their impact on soil protection and for the future inclusion of standards, which should be as specific as possible, for direct and indirect soil protection measures such as landscape conservation and planning, preventing erosion, minimising the sealing of land, flood protection, etc.

- Protection: taking measures, both structural and non-structural, to reduce the likelihood of floods and/or the impact of floods in a specific location;

The widening and deepening of the floodway protects the city alone from the level of a flood that comes every 500 years, while the Ste. Agathe structure protects the city and the rural area between south of the city and Ste. Agathe to a 1,000-year level.

The feasibility study will include a detailed examination of the current early warning system against cyclones, to make it as efficient as possible until such time as the construction and strenghtening of better flood protection structures have been completed.

This six-year programme has been drawn up as part of a scheme to protect Montero (in the east of Bolivia, in the Amazon region) and the surrounding agroindustrial villages from flooding. The aim is to: - protect the urban area of Montero (pop. 56 000) and improve the living conditions of its inhabitants; - protect social, energy and economic infrastructure and maintain the continuity of regional and international transit (the Cochabamba- Santa Cruz road and the Beni railway line); - improve and reclaim farmland (15 000 ha) with a view to increasing arable and livestock production; - stimulate development in the programme area; - rein ...[+++]force the structures of the SEARPI, an institute set up in the aftermath of 1983's floods for the purpose of monitoring and managing works on the river.

The Commission has already identified possible ways for it to act in a number of fields, having regard to the trans-boundary dimension of the issue in particular: - Structural funds: pilot project for regional development and planning could be started; ECU 2 million could be set aside for this immediately in the 1995 budget; - Civil protection: ways must be investigated for strengthening cooperation among Member States as regards information assessment and collection, early-warning systems, and prompt mobilization of rescue faciliti ...[+++]es; - Agriculture: an investigation into the causes of flooding due to the use of land and its absorption capacity etc. is essential; - Research: an objective analysis is required of the various phenomena in play, e.g. climatological factors.