Traduction de «réhabilitation de l'environnement » (Français → Anglais) :

People in Sudbury and our constituent communities of Garson, Copper Cliff, and Coniston faced the sulphurous fumes of the roasting beds and smelters, living in a landscape devoid of vegetation and hostile to the eye, but over the past 40 years, we have reclaimed our environment by planting almost 10 million trees, neutralizing acidic soils, and improving lake water quality.

2. Points out that cultural and creative infrastructures and facilities play an important role in the development of the physical environment of towns and cities, in creating an attractive environment for investment, and, in particular, the rehabilitation and revitalisation of old industrial districts, and that cultural heritage confers value added and adds individuality in the development and renewal of rural areas, especially through its contribution to rural tourism and to preventing the depopulation of these areas; also considers ...[+++] it to be a highly significant factor in the context of strategies for the rehabilitation of old industrial districts, as well as in policies to define the new sectoral spheres of tourism which are appearing and in the redefinition of traditional tourism; believes therefore that the establishment of cultural and creative industries and the development of those which already exist must be supported by means of national, regional and local development strategies, in a partnership between public authorities representing different policy areas, SMEs and relevant civil society representatives;

The Community contribution to the Kozloduy Programme shall be granted for the purpose of providing financial support for measures connected with the decommissioning of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, measures for environmental upgrading in line with the acquis and for modernising conventional production capacity to replace the production capacity of the four reactors at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant and other measures which stem from the decision to close and decommission this plant and which contribute to the necessary restructuring, upgrading of the environment and modernisation of the energy production, transmission and distribut ...[+++]ion sectors in Bulgaria as well as to enhancing security of supply and energy efficiency in Bulgaria.

- Setting an example by adjusting certain public spending patterns . Various forms of public investment for the conservation and rehabilitation of the environment (urban renewal and rehabilitation, waste water treatment, nature and common heritage restoration, the clean-up of polluted industrial sites, etc.) may have an important direct effect on employment and simultaneously improve the quality of life; . Education and training need to be adapted to present needs; . Public research and development should be directed towards cleaner technologies.

The programme includes five priorities: - environmental improvement and site reclamation: rehabilitation of derelict sites for public and commercial or industrial use, support for environmental investment by firms, creation of an environmental monitoring network; - development and strengthening of SME base: assistance for investment, feasibility studies with a high technology content, establishment of specific funds to guarantee loans to SMEs; - business support infrastructure: serviced sites for industrial and craft activities, building of exhibition and showroom premises, ...[+++] general business promotion; - development of technological innovation: establishment of a technology centre (first phase); - development of tourist potential: creation of a data communications network and specific measures to promote tourism.

It has prepared the following proposals and should be able to adopt them in the next few weeks. - Revision of the Impact Assessment Directive - Revision of the Seveso Directive - Ecological Quality of Water - Revision of the Bathing Water Directive - Air Quality (Decision on Exchange of Information and Framework Directive) - VOC Stage II - Nox from Aircraft (e) In 1993 the Commission developed financial instruments to promote environmental schemes, as follows: - in the context of the financial instrument for the environment (LIFE) (ECU 400 million for the period 1993-1995) the first batch of projects was adopted (a total of ECU 65.3 mill ...[+++]ion for various projects: clean technologies, waste, restoration of contaminated sites, integration of the environment, urban environment); - the new Cohesion Fund (ECU 14 billion for the period 1993-1999) to finance projects in the field of transport and the environment in Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Greece; - one of the stated objectives of the Structural Funds is now to ensure that greater account is taken of the environment in regional economic development.