Traduction de «taxe d'améliorations locales » (Français → Anglais) :

17. Calls on the authorities to promote ways to reduce the demand for transport by enhancing the use of teleworking and ICT tools and to be aware of the figures of the Eurobarometer survey that show that EU citizens are concerned about the negative impact of increased traffic in cities, considering traffic congestion (76 %), air quality (81 %) and accident rates (73 %) to be the most serious problems; calls on the Commission to monitor the new forms of mobility related to transport (e.g. self-drive vehicles), to carry out, in cooperation with the Member States, an analysis of all available measures helping to minimise the number of injuries and deaths, in particular of pedestrians and cyclists, and to promote the use of bicycles in cities, ...[+++] along with investment in cycling lanes and measures to raise awareness among road users regarding safety for cyclists; points out that cycling plays an important role in contemporary planning of sustainable urban mobility and that it is part of the solution for preventing congestion; stresses that segregated cycle/pedestrian paths should be included as a matter of course when building or restoring roads; reiterates in this respect that the increased use of bicycles in cities enhances traffic flow, improves public health and reduces the carbon footprint; stresses that an increased use of bicycles in cities could contribute to the Europe 2020 objectives; asks the Member States to continue building ring roads in order to minimise the number of vehicles going unnecessarily through cities, and calls on the Commission to find ways to support these projects financially; stresses that more efforts need to be undertaken in order to reduce the number of cars in the city; calls on local authorities to promote policies to encourage green transport by providing facilities, reducing taxes and establishing green certificates;

E. whereas the EU and its Member States must improve certain legal and financial regulations, such as those relating to national and local taxes and restricting operating hours, if it is to remove unnecessary burdens in Europe for the European aviation sector;

62. Concurs that development policy plays a role in helping countries turn their resource wealth into sustainable and inclusive growth, inter alia by enhancing governance and transparency; underlines the fact that development policy, including the GSP, is not an RM diplomacy tool, but believes that it can play an important supportive role in European RM policy; calls on the Commission therefore to ensure coherence between the two; welcomes the inclusion of explicit guarantees on non-discriminatory market access to RM in EU trade agreements and as a prerequisite for WTO membership; agrees though that trade agreements should provide the necessary flexibility to support developing countries in creating linkages between the extractive ind ...[+++]ustry and local industry; believes that countries‘ resource sovereignty must be respected and asks the Commission, in this context, to balance opposition to export taxes in developing countries by employing a differentiated approach taking account of the various national contexts so that development goals and industrialisation of developing countries are not put at risk; underlines that free and fair trade is of importance to the development of the global RM sector and wealth creation in all societies; notes that revenue from RM can play a crucial role in enabling least developed countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals;

We are developing some pilot projects, in cooperation with the municipalities, in an attempt to use local improvement taxes to fund energy efficiency projects.

4. Considers that promotion of locally adapted farming mainly on a small scale, an improvement for the environment and therefore for the economic and health situation of the rural population, could not be reached by a simply liberalised market access for agricultural products, but could be reached by an improved and qualified market access scheme; within this scheme, farm products would have easier access to EU markets if they are produced according to EU environmental rules and taking into account food security concerns; imports of ...[+++] products that do not fit into these rules would be sanctioned with a charge at the EU borders; the fund consisting of these charges would be used to support projects promoting rural development in the exporting countries;

3. Is deeply concerned about the fact that although measures and institutions have been introduced in order to fight against organised crime and corruption, they have not led to satisfactory results with the consequence that public administration, local governments and tax collecting bodies remain highly vulnerable; therefore strongly insists that Bulgaria must intensify its efforts in improving and implementing its strategy in the fight against high-level corruption and organised crime;