Traduction de «levy on environmentally harmful consumption » (Anglais → Français) :

H. whereas the need to restore the credibility of budgetary policies, and to reduce the sovereign debt of Member States, makes it necessary to modify budget expenses, swiftly implement growth-friendly structural reforms, improve methods of tax collection and modify some taxes, ensuring that priority, where appropriate, is given to those taxes that are levied on capital, environmentally harmful activities and some types of consumption rather than to those levied on labour;

H. whereas the need to restore the credibility of budgetary policies, and to reduce the sovereign debt of Member States, makes it necessary to modify budget expenses, swiftly implement growth-friendly structural reforms, improve methods of tax collection and modify some taxes, ensuring that priority, where appropriate, is given to those taxes that are levied on capital, environmentally harmful activities and some types of consumption rather than to those levied on labour;

Currently, approvals of genetically engineered crops for human consumption and environmental release are based on safety alone with no consideration given to any potential harm to export markets and the resultant economic harm to farmers.

A levy on premia of currently 3% goes to the tobacco fund which supports the switch from tobacco into other crops and information measures on the harmful effects of tobacco consumption.

The Council - regards the Treaty as the foundation for pan-European cooperation in the energy sector; - regards the implementation of the Charter by means of the Treaty as an important contribution to economic development and long-term political stability in the States of Central and Eastern Europe and the successor States of the former Soviet Union; - notes that the Treaty will contribute to * providing greater energy supply security in Europe, * modernizing the energy industries of the countries in transition and encouraging the efficient use of energy, * reducing the harmful environmental impact of energy production an ...[+++]d consumption, * increasing trade liberalization in the energy sector, * ensuring unimpeded transit, and * promoting foreign direct investment and guaranteeing foreign investors a high level of investment protection; - welcomes the fact that more than two-thirds of the Signatories to the European Energy Charter have already adopted the draft text of the Treaty; - confirms its political intention of jointly signing the Treaty with all negotiating Parties on 17 December in Lisbon; - emphasizes the need to initiate the ratification procedures as soon as possible after signature; - is satisfied with the implementation of the mandate decided by the Council at its meeting on 3 December 1991 and confirms this mandate for the negotiation of the supplementary agreement; - states that the Communities and their Member States will also make a constructive contribution in the second stage of negotiations; - states that the Communities and their Member States intend to conclude negotiations on the Nuclear Protocol as soon as possible; - decides to sign the European Energy Charter Treaty, the Final Act and the Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects on behalf of the European Community, subject to approval, and authorizes its President to designate the person(s) empowered to sign the Treaty; - notes that the Commission will sign th ...

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.