Traduction de «Zone d'appel locale » (Français → Anglais) :

As a result of the European Commission's earlier investigations, the German telecoms regulator (BNetzA) has improved its draft proposal to allow the German operator Deutsche Telekom (DT) to upgrade its network with vectoring technology in areas of 550m around a local exchange (also known as "nearshore areas").

Today's decision aims at ensuring that the introduction of the so-called nearshore vectoring technology in Germany goes with adequate safeguards restricting the negative effects vectoring can have on the position of alternative operators.

9. Asks the Commission to introduce, as a general rule, a territorial impact assessment on the urban dimension in order to ensure the practical feasibility of all relevant EU policy initiatives at regional and local level, to be receptive to the input from decentralised levels of government when drawing up impact assessments and new policies (‘bottom-up approach’) and to make sure that all relevant sectoral EU policies adequately address the challenges that towns, cities and functional urban areas face; calls on the Commission to concentrate these territorial impact assessments on the following elements: balanced territorial development ...[+++], territorial integration, aspects of governance, regulation, implementation at local level, and coherence with other policy objectives;

34. Calls for a strengthening of coordination at local level, increased dialogue among donors, stakeholders and local authorities, and a focus on sustainable measures for returnees; calls for efforts to be made to ensure the return of refugees and internally displaced persons to all affected areas; calls on the country to address the unresolved humanitarian issue of the 7 886 cases of persons still missing from the war and to improve the working conditions of the Missing Persons Institute;

26. Notes that the potential of regions and rural areas is not confined to the natural resources that enable them to play a social and economic role, given that such areas are first and foremost a place where the food required in order to ensure food security is produced and that they provide key raw materials for industry and renewable energy generation on a sustainable basis, as well as constituting a source of environmental, ecological, landscape and tourism assets and non-material assets, including traditions and cultural features such as culinary heritage in the form of regional products; calls for balanced territorial development ...[+++]of rural areas in all regions of the EU that will empower local inhabitants and help to improve local conditions and links between rural and urban areas; points out that farming is the cornerstone of the rural economy and that farmers play a leading role in ensuring the vitality of this economy and in rural land development; considers that promoting regional labels by means of the CAP, both at EU level and in third countries, would offer economic advantages at local and regional level;

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