Traduction de «Linéaire développé » (Français → Anglais) :

an across-the-board reduction in commitment and payment appropriations requested in the PDB by an amount of EUR 1 billion under all budget articles of subheading 1a (market expenditure for agriculture and rural development) where the sum of appropriations is greater than EUR 800 million; this reduction is in line with the overall approach of controlled growth of payment appropriations, in which it is proposed to include compulsory expenditure (subheading 1a) and non-compulsory expenditure (other headings); it represents a 6,4% increase compared to 2004. acceptance of the Commission's PDB as regards appropriations for rural development ...[+++](subheading 1b).

A. whereas economies are like ecosystems: both systems take in energy and materials and turn them into products and processes, the difference being that our economy follows linear resource flows whereas nature is cyclic; and whereas ecosystems perform functions which convert waste into resources, by transferring energy from the sunlight, and whereas industrial processes are not able to do this; whereas, against the backdrop of rapidly growing economies and populations, production and products that lead to waste streams which nature cannot absorb and turn into new resources are increasingly problematic from the point of view of sustaina ...[+++]bility,

As far as agriculture and rural development are concerned, I am pleased to see that a series of the amendments adopted by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development call for the appropriations in heading 1a to be restored to the level proposed by the Commission in its preliminary draft budget, and that there is a desire to reverse the cuts made across the board by the Council.

– (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Agriculture Committee wishes to address the Council and express its fundamental opposition to the cuts across the board that the Council is always making.

This is why we have rejected en masse all the across-the-board cuts proposed by the Council and we consider that we must face up to requirements in the areas of redevelopment, development, international development, social actions and environmental policy.

Annexes: 3 ANNEX 1 The Commission proposes the following systematic approach: A. Developed countries and the most advanced developing countries - base rate of 40% and more: reduction to a ceiling of 20%; - base rate below 40%: reduction as follows: - rate between 0 and 29% R = D + 20 where R is the percentage reduction and D the base rate of the customs duty - rate between 30% and 40% R = 50 (across-the-board reduction of 50%) Annex 2 gives the percentage reduction for each of the rates between 0 and 40%.