Traduction de «Pression des terres au repos » (Français → Anglais) :

When you're dealing with human beings and with pressures, is there any responsibility for the employers, the people who are hiring these drivers, to make sure they're not allowing a driver behind the wheel who they feel has not had enough down time and is obviously showing signs of fatigue?

E. whereas in rural areas, some 200 million people (almost 20 % of the world’s poor) have no access to sufficient land to make a living; whereas rural land is coming under multiple pressures, such as population growth, land-use conversion, commercial investments, environmental degradation due to drought, soil erosion and nutrient depletion, as well as natural disasters and conflicts; and whereas securing land rights is necessary to promote social stability by reducing uncertainty and conflicts over land;

E. whereas in rural areas, some 200 million people (almost 20 % of the world’s poor) have no access to sufficient land to make a living; whereas rural land is coming under multiple pressures, such as population growth, land-use conversion, commercial investments, environmental degradation due to drought, soil erosion and nutrient depletion, as well as natural disasters and conflicts; and whereas securing land rights is necessary to promote social stability by reducing uncertainty and conflicts over land;

9. Is concerned about China’s restrictive policies and its dominant position on the market for several raw materials which are crucial to the functioning of the European economy; calls on the Commission to constantly monitor and address at regional, multilateral and bilateral levels the gap between supply and demand of critical raw materials and rare earth, and to further engage in a dialogue with China on China’s use of WTO rules to enforce a quota on rare earths, which are in fact not endangered natural resources; insists, in particular, on the need for China to respect WTO rules regarding access to raw materials, as confirmed by the WTO ruling on 5 July 2011, and rules regarding access to rare earth; ...[+++]stresses the need for a common European approach in the field of raw materials in order to strengthen political pressure and to ensure that companies within the EU have equal access to essential resources for their production activities;

That directive, which shall take account of the specific situation of those working on board vessels and on land, shall lay down minimum rules on health and working conditions, such as rest periods, maximum number of working hours per year, paid holidays, health assessment, etc., which are to be implemented by the national or regional administrations in accordance with the subsidiarity principle.

In municipalities where there are these natural wetlands, the pressure on land continues to grow, and a lot of this pressure comes from developers who want to put up housing.