Traduction de «Nuisance pour l'environnement » (Français → Anglais) :

Directory code: Transport policy / Air transport / Structural harmonisation Environment, consumers and health protection / Environment / Pollution and nuisances / Prevention of noise pollution

On the matter of public nuisance claims, the Ontario EBR provides members of the public with a right to sue for damages for direct economic or personal loss that has resulted from a public nuisance that has harmed the environment, without the approval of the Attorney General. Prior to this act being passed, claims for public nuisance in Ontario had to be brought by, or with the leave of, the Attorney General.

These provisions are designed to minimise environmental threats and nuisance from landfills, such as bad odours, pollution of water and soil, and emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, caused by the decomposition of organic matter.

RECALLS that Decision No 1600/2002/EC laying down the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme, particularly its recital 27 and Articles 2(2), 4 and 7(2)(h), refers to the need for concerted efforts to ensure a better and healthier environment and to contribute to a high level of quality of life and social well being for citizens by encouraging sustainable urban development and establishes a thematic strategy on the urban environment as a priority action; WELCOMES the Commission Communication "Towards a thematic strategy on the urban environment"; SUPPORTS its analysis of environmental problems and conditions in urban areas in Euro ...[+++]pe as a basis for the forthcoming thematic strategy; ALSO SUPPORTS the four priority themes - management, transport, construction and urban design - all of which have clear links to economic and social issues and are relevant for the sustainable development of urban areas; STRESSES the need to address also strategic environmental issues to reduce cities' impact on the wider environment; CONSIDERS that actions under the thematic strategy on the urban environment should, among other things, contribute to the reduction of air and noise pollution; and UNDERLINES the importance of a continued focus at Community level on source-related measures, in particular for transport; AGREES that further development of the suggested actions and measures for the thematic strategy on the urban environment should have regard to:

Selection and evaluation criteria In order to be selected, the tourist destinations had to meet as many as possible of the following criteria: . drafting and implementation of a tourism development plan which respected the environment; . measures to ensure improved distribution of the flows of visitors over time and space; . innovative measures for the management of natural resources; . effective cooperation between the public and private operators concerned, and between the various administrative levels; . protection of natural sites; . restoration of run-down buildings and sites; . programmes for reducing ...[+++]nuisances, such as noise, pollution, waste etc.; . specifications for architecture and decoration for integrating buildings and infrastructure into the environment; . tourism/environment training programme for persons working in the sector; . awareness campaigns on environmental protection for visitors and inhabitants; . scrupulous respect for national and European legislation on sustainable tourism and the environment.

/ * * * "The Community has long recognised the need to improve the acoustical environment around airports and it has taken action to reduce the noise from civil subsonic aircraft through a first directive on aircraft noise in 1980 and a later amendment in 1983. - 3 - "As from 1 January 1988 non noise-certificated aircraft - that is the very noisy ones - will have been banished from the Community, and that form of environmental disturbance will disappear".