Traduction de «Prévention de l'impact » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Notes with concern the culmination of a trend in recent years of cuts in the defence budgets of the majority of EU Member States in the wake of the financial, economic and debt crisis, and the potential negative impact of these measures on their military capabilities and, therefore, on the ability of the EU to effectively take over its responsibilities in peace keeping, conflict prevention and the strengthening of international security, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, should the Member States fail ...[+++]to make up for these losses through increased European cooperation and coordination; underlines, in this regard, that defence constitutes a public good that affects the security of all European citizens and that all Member States need to contribute in a spirit of cooperation, burden sharing and cost-effectiveness;

7. Stresses that the effects of disasters are not confined within the formal and administrative boundaries of regions and Member States; believes, therefore, that the identification of particularly risk-prone areas, specifying the type of risk concerned, should go hand in hand with establishing priority objectives and cooperation mechanisms in such areas; calls on regions to build on already existing territorial and cross-border coordination networks in order to develop cooperation focusing more specifically on disaster prevention; believes that cross-border cooperation structures, such as the macro-regions, with their functionally-or ...[+++]iented cooperation independent of administrative boundaries, can become effective platforms for cooperation in the field of disaster prevention;

We need to accurately target environmental impacts and look at how waste prevention, re-use and increased recycling can best reduce this impact.

8. Underlines that the overall objective of the strategy is to reduce to a minimum the negative environmental impact of waste; this implies that in the thematic strategy environmental impact should be defined, that recycling is not an end in itself and that the waste hierarchy is not fixed for all situations and materials; it should be the environmental impact that counts; therefore calls for future legislation only to give preference to waste prevention and recycling over regulated disposal where they actually are more environment ...[+++]ally friendly; this could, for instance, be determined through a comparison of emission and energy consumption levels for the various alternative processes;

(b) Combined exposures of authorised substances, including impact of local environmental disasters and pollution on the safety of foodstuffs, with emphasis being placed on cumulative risks and health impacts of environmental pollutants, transmission routes to human beings, long-term effects and exposure to small doses, prevention strategies, as well as the impact on particularly sensitive groups, and especially children.

15. Proposes to carry out a "Conflict Prevention Assessment" when examining major decisions concerning the common policies of the Union as well as when launching any type of programme in non-member countries, in order to establish the eventual impact that these decisions or programmes could have from a conflict prevention perspective;