Traduction de «Environnement à risque élevé » (Français → Anglais) :

Furthermore, an even higher level of environmental protection can be achieved by the initiatives to go beyond the mandatory Community standards, which may harm the competitive position of the undertakings concerned.

The price of polluting our environment must be high, and the rewards for opting for carbon dioxide-free solutions must be tempting.

From an environmental point of view, tax reductions for energy-intensive businesses as provided for (as an option) in the directive are counter-productive, since the environmental ‘dividend’ would be highest by taxing the biggest polluters.

7. Is alarmed at the persistence of high unemployment and the poor prospects for increasing employment, both in the eurozone and in the Union as a whole; urges that a special effort be made to provide advice and retraining for all those unemployed for more than six months; insists that small and medium-sized undertakings (SMEs) have a key role to play in job creation and is alarmed at the high number of SME bankruptcies in 2004, while at the same time deploring the fact that, unlike larger enterprises, SMEs have been incapable of taking full advantage of the favourable financial conditions of the last few years; stresses the need to create an environment which pro ...[+++]motes the spirit of enterprise and a risk-taking culture which encourages the creation of new businesses by easing the administrative burden on small and medium-sized firms, by simplifying the regulatory environment, by reducing the general level of taxation in the European Union and by improving access for SMEs to sources of finance, particularly risk capital; proposes reforms designed to increase opportunities for SMEs; ; draws attention to the decisive role that micro-loans may play in assisting the creation of businesses and jobs; calls for a detailed examination of such instruments, and for them to be taken into account and promoted at Community level;

The current definition aims at ensuring a high level of protection of the environment, i.e. it is based on the consideration that when a material is discarded it might be used or treated in a way that could harm the environment and must therefore be considered as waste.

Indeed, some ships pose a manifest risk to maritime safety and the marine environment because of their poor condition, flag and history, among which in particular, ships flying the flag of a State described as "very high risk" or "high risk" in the black list published in the MOU.