Traduction de «sub-commission on salt-affected soils » (Anglais → Français) :

Stresses that an incident involving CBRN materials which affects the condition of the soil and/or the drinking water supply has the potential to produce devastating and far-reaching effects on the health and welfare of all the people in the affected area; calls on the Commission to take this into account when drafting the EU CBRN Action Plan;

In March 2008, the Commission mandated SCHER to produce an updated scientific opinion and to comment whether it agreed with the main conclusion of the HERA report on polycarboxylates in detergents[18], i.e. that the use of polycarboxylates in detergents does not pose risks for environmental compartments with the exception of the soil local compartment for P-AA/MA (a copolymer of acrylic and maleic acids or its sodium salt).

15. Calls on the Presidency, the Council and the Member States to give unequivocal support to the draft resolution from the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (Sub-Commission resolution 2004/17) to the 61st session of the Commission on Human Rights proposing a study on discrimination based on work and descent, and the development of a draft set of principles and guidelines for the elimination of caste-based discrimination in a comprehensive response to a massive and systematic human rights problem that affects the lives of an estimated 260 million people around the world;

The Commission document was drawn up following wide consultation involving scientists, experts and the sectors affected. It represents a number of significant innovations, recognising the gaps in knowledge and the research which would need to be undertaken or completed in order to lend greater scientific consistency to the development of thematic strategies and future directives. It also draws attention to the various policies pursued in different countries and the diversity of the problems affecting soil ...[+++] in the various parts of the EU.

The Commission communication 'Towards a thematic strategy for soil protection' lists the main problems affecting soil and outlines the main directions which action should take.

In a case currently before the Court of Justice (51), the Commission notes that the Advocate-General remarked that the following criteria point to the existence of a direct and indissoluble link between a tax and a State aid measure: (a) the degree to which the aid concerned is funded by the proceeds of the tax; (b) the degree to which the proceeds of the tax are earmarked for the aid; (c) the degree, as shown by the regulations concerned, to which the link between the proceeds of the tax and their earmarking as aid is binding; (d) the degree to which and the way in which the combination between the tax and the aid affects competitive ...[+++] relationships in the (sub-)sector or category of enterprises concerned.