Traduction de «regional environmental training and information » (Anglais → Français) :

1. Points out that although local and regional authorities are among Europe’s largest purchasers and therefore play an essential role in implementing public procurement rules, the complexity of the rules laid down in competition law and procurement law means that there is often a lack of expertise concerning the legal framework and its implementation, appropriate training and guidelines on procurement within sub-national authorities; calls on the Member States to set up training courses on public procurement rules (including specific aspects, such as social, environmental, diversity and equality criteria) and to encourage the use of ICTs to improve the understanding of those rules and the administrative capabilities of local and regional a ...[+++]uthorities; in this context, raises the possibility of establishing public procurement groupings at regional level based on cooperation between local and regional authorities, which would significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public procurement through contacts and mutual exchanges of experience and information; furthermore, points out that efforts to uncover and reduce corruption at regional and local authority level must continue through the introduction of training, the provision of information and publicity;

Activities that could be supported could be for instance the creation of cluster coordination bodies for EMAS registration, regional compliance assistance programmes to offer SMEs free or facilitated environmental audit and guidance, sector-specific information initiatives, SME-oriented environmental training of business support ...[+++] networks, etc.

(4) The objective of EMAS is to promote continual improvements in the environmental performance of organisations by the establishment and implementation of environmental management systems by organisations, the systematic, objective and periodic evaluation of the performance of such systems, the provision of information on environmental performance, an open dialogue with the public and other interested parties and the active involvement of employees in the organisation and appropriate training.

Staff should be trained in the management, husbandry and training of animals under their care. For animal carers and scientists working with non-human primates, training should include species-specific information. This should include the biological and behavioural characteristics and requirements of the species, environmental enrichment, methods used for the introduction and removal of animals and social dynamics. Training should also include information on the health and safety of staff working with non-human primates including zoonotic disease risk, and management.

The list of actions to be taken at Community and national levels should cover, but not be limited to, the following elements and domains: socio-economic issues (competitiveness of forestry, valuation of social and environmental goods and services); environmental issues (climate change, forest fires, water, biodiversity conservation); use of wood as energy source; information about wood as a renewable and environmentally friendly resource; governance issues; horizontal activities (research, training, forest statistics, monitoring); and co-ordination, communication and co-operation.

- a reinforced rural development pillar to be further developed in the future, embracing, strengthened agri-environment measures as compulsory elements of regional programmes, area-based support for sustainable farming in less favoured areas, forestry measures including sustainable management practices and environmental training,