Traduction de «Insulaire des îles Cocos » (Français → Anglais) :

The Council adopted a Regulation laying down specific measures for agricultural products to remedy the difficulties caused by the remote and insular nature of the smaller Aegean islands and amending Regulation 1782/2003 (11704/1/06).

Thus five island regions have populations exceeding 500.000 (Sicily, Sardinia, Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Reunion and account for 75% of the European Island populationof the remaining islands seven are at NUTs 3 level and six have populations of less than 100.000. Relative size and geographical position will then clearly affect both the real possibilities for economic development and the kinds of products and activities that can be undertaken. Equally age distribution in the local society has a direct effect on social charges and unemployment statistics. For example in Réunion the population is growing and under 15 year olds ac ...[+++]count for 35% of the population, in the northern Aegean 25% of the population is over 60. Again whilst in some islands the population is on the increase, others such as the Western Isles of Scotland suffer from a high level of migration. Climate differences due to geographical position stimulate vastly different agricultural products

28. Considers that tourism represents for most islands a primary source of wealth creation, having a direct influence on the growth of other sectors (agriculture, commerce, services, fisheries), and that it is imperative to put in place an integrated policy capable of ensuring the sustainability of island tourism; believes that this policy needs to be accompanied by a well-organised European information campaign directed at European citizens through the creation of a quality and island origin label, and the emergence or further development of other activity sectors within islands; calls on the Commission, with this in view, to carry ou ...[+++]t a cross-sectoral analysis paying special attention to opportunities to support sustainable tourism within the regional strategies of islands that are far from centres of population;

28. Considers that tourism represents for most islands a primary source of wealth creation , having a direct influence on the growth of other sectors (agriculture, commerce, services, fisheries), and that it is imperative to put in place an integrated policy capable of ensuring the sustainability of island tourism; believes that this policy needs to be accompanied by a well-organised European information campaign directed at European citizens through the creation of a quality and island origin label, and the emergence or further development of other activity sectors within islands; calls on the Commission, with this in view, to carry o ...[+++]ut a cross-sectoral analysis paying special attention to opportunities to support sustainable tourism within the regional strategies of islands that are far from centres of population;

10. Calls on the Commission to undertake and to present to the Parliament, on a regular basis, a "special needs assessment" study of island regions taking into account issues of specific concern to islands and proposing measures to address them; considers that such an assessment should focus in particular on the impact of the implementation of regional policy on islands, including on levels of investment, the spread of economic activity, unemployment, transport infrastructure (notably, ports and airports), environmental pressures and the overall level of economic and social integration of islands within the internal market;

One of the European Union's less-developed regions, the islands of the South Aegean suffer from serious structural problems, caused mainly by their position on the periphery of the Community, the island nature of the region, the large number of islands (a total of 79 islands of which 48 are inhabited) and the serious disparities in the development of the different islands.