Traduction de «Forage sous forte contrainte au fond » (Français → Anglais) :

underground drilling under strong constraints

The Minister may permit the use of directional drilling equipment, in the case of sub-sea bed drilling for hydrocarbons, from a point outside a marine conservation area to a point below the sea bed within the marine conservation area, where the practices are determined by the Minister not to pose any serious threat to the existing ecosystem of the marine conservation area.

In light of severe fiscal constraints facing many governments, EMPHASISES that a public finance contribution to the commitment made needs to be consistent with sound and sustainable public finances, and sound public financial management through careful evaluation of needs, effective disbursement and an open attitude toward innovative sources of finance and approaches to broaden private sector involvement.

I think Parliament has constrained itself too tightly, and we should more properly reflect the interinstitutional agreement of 2001 in our procedures to permit committees to talk about substantive changes to parts of directives or regulations that the Commission is seeking to recast, but in a very restricted form.

8. Calls for an extension of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive to cover all offshore projects phases (exploratory and operational) and calls for specific requirements for EIAs in the case of deep water, complex wells, challenging drilling conditions, and transfer of oil/gas by underwater pipelines located on/under the seabed; considers, furthermore, that the Commission should ensure that EIAs for offshore projects approved by national authorities also cover the procedures operators must follow during decommissioning; calls on the Commission to reassess the legal provisions on EIAs and lay down therein that environment ...[+++]al impact assessment procedures must be entrusted to experts who are independent of the client;