Traduction de «principe de la prépondérance » (Français → Anglais) :

27. Calls on the Member States, their managing authorities and the Commission to include housing stakeholders, residents’ associations and associations for access to housing among their closest interlocutors for the drawing up, monitoring and assessment of partnership agreements and operational programmes; stresses the importance of new integrated development tools (Community-Led Local Development and Integrated Territorial Investment) for integrated housing strategies in which social housing organisations and occupants would figure prominently; believes that the Structural and Cohesion Funds must make effective use of both the partnership and the multi-level governance principles ...[+++] and that the Member States must be encouraged to cooperate with local and regional authorities to set priorities and determine how the funding should be used; considers that greater synergies between the Structural and Cohesion Funds could encourage the sustainable development of disadvantaged or rural areas, preventing their isolation and depopulation, thus avoiding the negative effects of social segregation and promoting heterogeneity, social cohesion and gender equality;

29. Calls on the Member States, their managing authorities and the Commission to include housing stakeholders, residents’ associations and associations for access to housing among their closest interlocutors for the drawing up, monitoring and assessment of partnership agreements and operational programmes; stresses the importance of new integrated development tools (Community-Led Local Development and Integrated Territorial Investment) for integrated housing strategies in which social housing organisations and occupants would figure prominently; believes that the Structural and Cohesion Funds must make effective use of both the partnership and the multi-level governance principles ...[+++] and that the Member States must be encouraged to cooperate with local and regional authorities to set priorities and determine how the funding should be used; considers that greater synergies between the Structural and Cohesion Funds could encourage the sustainable development of disadvantaged or rural areas, preventing their isolation and depopulation, thus avoiding the negative effects of social segregation and promoting heterogeneity, social cohesion and gender equality;

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR), in accordance with Article 18(2) TEU, should have a leading role in the Agency’s structure and provide the essential link between the Agency and the Council.

Sustainable development is becoming more and more an overriding principle that must inspire all legislative fields, whether it is agriculture, economic policy, energy or transport; this is all the more relevant at the present moment on account of the increase in oil prices and the political instability inside many producer countries, both issues painfully highlighting the Union's excessive dependency on external non-renewable energy sources.

When a Community measure pursues a twofold purpose and if one is identifiable as the main or predominant purpose whereas the other is merely incidental, the measure must be founded on a single legal basis, merely that required by the main or preponderant purpose.

Note that this judgement contains an explicit reference to the precautionary principle and affirms that "requirements linked to the protection of public health should undoubtedly be given greater weight that economic considerations".