Traduction de «Fonds pour les technologies propres » (Français → Anglais) :

The co-ordinated package of personalised services to be funded, including its compatibility with actions funded by the Structural Funds, includes measures for clarification and reorientation (in order to determine the goals and plans of the workers), supplementary support for further education and training, innovation laboratory (focus on upgrading workers' skills to enable them to take part in clean-tech based prototype work in existing companies), mentoring scheme, qualification hotline, job-seeking allowances and mobility allowances.

9. Stresses that the transfer of clean-energy technology to developing countries is central to tackling climate change and meeting the Millennium Development Goals; notes that at the 2005 Gleneagles summit, G8 leaders recognised the need for greater international co-operation and coordination of research and development of energy technologies; notes further that, at the same time, the Heads of Government of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, China and India issued a joint statement with a view to building a new paradigm for international cooperation in the future, including improved participation in RD, international funding for technology ...[+++]transfer, and a concerted effort to address issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR); calls on the Commission to address IPR-related barriers to the acquisition of existing proprietary clean-energy technology through dialogue on the basis of further work analysing how international funds and public-private initiatives have fostered technology transfer covered by IPRs in other fields; calls on the Commission to explore the potential for new kinds of global public-private-partnerships in technologies to tackle climate change, drawing experience from international agreements to support IPR access to anti-retroviral drugs for developing countries.

In particular one of the priority categories of expenditure for the new European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund [20] refers to "assistance to SMEs for the promotion of environmentally-friendly products and production processes (introduction of effective environment managing system, adoption and use of pollution prevention technologies, integration of clean technologies into firm production)".

The Cohesion Fund should in general focus on infrastructure investments in water, waste and air pollution, while the Structural Funds should in general focus on the promotion of environmental management systems, on the dissemination of clean technologies in SMEs and the rehabilitation of contaminated sites.

c) Developing an appropriate regulatory framework and innovative financial mechanisms in order to promote investments in clean technologies in the context of public-private partnerships - Investing in clean technology is first and foremost the responsibility of industry and it is vital that the market and investment conditions in the developing countries should be such as to encourage the involvement of enterprises in the technology transfer process.

They must ensure a high level of environmental protection, be based as far as possible on the use of clean technology and, where appropriate, reflect the desirablility of maximizing product life.