Traduction de «culture de fond » (Français → Anglais) :

In fact, although Article 151 of the EC Treaty (35) indeed foresees that the Community should contribute to cultural diversity, under the terms of Article 8 of Law 62/2001 no dispositions have been outlined concerning the appropriation of funds for the explicit promotion of culture but rather the funds are entirely used for the more general support of investment by undertakings producing publishing products in the Italian language.

Solidarity : key actions envisaged for 2007 Start of new programmes for 2007-2013: European Regional Development Fund; Cohesion Fund; European Social Fund; European Globalisation Adjustment Fund; Rural development programmes; European Fisheries Fund; Progress; Life +; Youth in action, Culture 2007; Media 2007; Citizens for Europe; Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows; Fundamental Rights and Justice.

I think that, on the other hand, governments and regions should be encouraged to ask for more investment in culture by the Structural Funds.I find it remarkable that Mr Barnier, my colleague responsible for Structural Funds, has, since assuming his responsibilities, decided to open up these funds even more to culture – that is to say to you who work at ground level in close relation with cultural players and communities – and to encourage municipalities and States to submit more applications for Structural funds for this purpose.

* Culture: the programme CULTURE 2000 includes a "youth" element in allocating funding to projects in the area of creativity and mobility, dissemination of art and culture and inter-cultural dialogue and knowledge of European history.

(3) With a view to meeting the needs of the cultural dimension in the European Union, the Community has to take cultural aspects into account in its action under provisions of the Treaty other than Article 151, in particular in order to respect and to promote the diversity of its cultures; in this context, the Commission should encourage the dissemination of information about the opportunities for the cultural industries in the Structural Funds, in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds(4), and undertake studies to that end.

2. Recalls that, as long ago as 1993, on the initiative of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media, Parliament, in its reports on the revision of the Cohesion and the Structural Funds, called on the Commission and the Council to take cultural activities into account as a development factor;