Traduction de «Protection de l'environnement pour une Terre plus saine » (Français → Anglais) :

We need growth and more jobs, a cleaner and healthier environment.

Growth typically enables societies to provide their members with a cleaner, healthier environment as it allows them to invest in cleaner technologies and products.

- Safer and environmentally friendly production methods and technologies and healthier foodstuffs: The objective is to develop lower input farming systems (agriculture and aquaculture) based on systems such as integrated production, lower-input methods including organic agriculture and the use of plant and animal sciences and biotechnologies and improved transformation processes aimed at producing safer healthier nutritious, functional and varied foodstuffs, and animal feed, responding to consumer expectations, and improving the quali ...[+++]ty of food and feed through innovative technologies.

The activities carried out in this area are intended to help establish the integrated scientific and technological bases needed to develop an environmentally friendly production and distribution chain of safer, healthier and varied food, including sea-food and to control food-related risks, relying in particular on biotechnology tools taking into account the results of post-genomic research, as well as to control health risks associated with environmental changes ...[+++].

Whereas the objectives and principles of the Community's environment policy, as set out in the Treaty and detailed in the resolution of the Council of the European Communities and the representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council of 1 February 1993 on a Community programme of policy and action in relation to the environment and sustainable development (4), as well as in the preceding resolutions of 1973 (5), 1977 (6), 1983 (7) and 1987 (8) on a policy and action programme of the Community regarding the protection of the en ...[+++]vironment are, in particular, to prevent, reduce and as far as possible eliminate pollution, particularly at source on the basis of the polluter pays principle, to ensure sound management of resources and to use clean or cleaner technology;

That involves, inter alia: - the improvement of the functioning of the internal energy market, in particular the completion of the internal electricity and gas market; - respect for the general principles of competition and services of general economic interest, wherever they exist and according to the conditions laid down in the Treaty; - the definition of standardization programmes to promote energy efficiency and new and renewable sources of energy; - a consistent approach in the environmental field; - the development of trans-European networks; - the setting of energy priorities in future research programmes; - the establishmen ...[+++]t of a consistent approach as regards external relations; - the more coherent definition of programmes for energy efficiency and new and renewable sources of energy to allow for more effective use of budgetary means, 4. considers that the common energy objectives identified in the Resolution on the Green Paper should be implemented at Community level and invites the Commission to put in place a process of cooperation between the Community and the Member States in order to ensure that Community and national energy policies are compatible with those objectives, 5. believes that Community energy decisions must be taken in the context of a shared analysis of the energy situation and of future trends and invites the Commission to organize cooperation between Member States on energy studies, as called for in the resolution on the Green Paper, 6. considers that the promotion of new and renewable energies and energy efficiency can make a valid contribution to a safer and healthier environment and, together with the development of indigenous sources, both reduce the Community's energy dependency on external sources and promote economic growth and employment, 7. believes that the opening up of the internal energy market and environmental issues related to energy require transparency of economic indicators and invites the Commission to report ...