Traduction de «sous-comité des petits territoires » (Français → Anglais) :

21. Believes that the current CAP reform needs to prioritize fair prices for small- and medium-sized farmers and family farms, it must also ensure a transparent food chain and work towards halting the abusive buying power of multi-national corporations; aid should be linked as closely as possible to production and distributed fairly among producers and countries, subject to ceilings and modulation; the main objectives of the CAP should be to increase food production throughout the territory of EU Member States with a view to food security and sovereignty whilst maintaining the highest possible animal welfare, environmental and food saf ...[+++]ety standards. In addition, any reform of the CAP should take care not to impede agricultural economies of third countries;

2. Notes with considerable concern that the most recent report of the Scientific Sub-committee of CECAF held in 2005 found that at that time, all stocks of small pelagics were fully exploited and most stocks of demersal species were over-exploited, with some being fully exploited; that a study by the FAO Northwest Africa Small Pelagic Working Group concluded in 2010 that the situation had deteriorated, with two stocks of small pelagics (horse mackerel and sardinella) now being over-exploited;

I believe the remaining problems can be resolved by the time of Thursday’s vote, because the committee procedure, on which we were still at odds with the Council, actually relates to only a small section of the draft, namely the matter of an ad hoc committee to which associated territories have to be admitted.

During its visit to the Ste Anne’s Hospital outside Montreal, a centre of excellence in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other operational stress injuries, the Subcommittee was briefed about the personal characteristics that made the individual either more or less prone to an operational stress injury.

I also want to emphasise the significance of the fact that the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Mr Solana, is part of the international commission under the leadership of Senator Mitchell which is investigating the current violence in the Palestinian areas and which, hopefully, will eventually submit proposals to prevent a recurrence of this violence.

The following resolution was adopted at the end of the conference. The European Conference on Craft Industries and Small Businesses: 1) Welcomes the adoption by the Commission of the action programme for small and medium-sized businesses (7 August 1986); 2) Hopes that all possible resources will be used to put into effect the actions described in the programme, as concerns both the business environment and greater flexibility and access to finance; 3) Considers that, since small businesses are those most handicapped by the non-tariff barriers which have persisted in the common market for 30 years, priority should be given to eliminating these obstacles to the completion of the internal market, and to reducing and simplifying administrativ ...[+++]e, tax and technical procedures as much as possible; ../.- 2 - 4) Considers that a special effort will have to be made to assist craft industries, including policies : a) to promote enterprise and the important role of the self-employed entrepreneur; b) to educate and inform craftsmen on the new technologies so that they are introduced into existing businesses; c) to encourage young people and the unemployed to set up their own craft industry businesses; d) to provide training in the new technologies and materials as early as the apprentice stage; e) to preserve craft skills; f) to simplify the procedures for making use of and protecting inventions. 5) Calls on the Community's financial institutions and Funds to introduce the kind of specific financing measures in favour of small businesses and craft industries that are easy to implement and cover the whole range of operations from grants and loans to special support and venture capital operations; 6) Welcomes the Commission's plans for providing information in the form of a "Community window for small businesses"; 7) Addresses this resolution to the Commission, Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the governement of the Member States.