Traduction de «territoire économique naturel » (Français → Anglais) :

Particular attention is thereby to be paid to rural areas, areas suffering from an economic handicap or affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps such as the northernmost regions with very low population density and island, cross-border and mountain regions; the Committee of the Regions would also highlight the challenges listed in the Europe 2020 study for the EU's regions, including the outermost regions, as well as urban areas whose outskirts are often in ...[+++]creasingly run down and affected by growing social and economic impoverishment; considers, furthermore, that the scope of the Europe 2020 strategy should also cover the outermost regions, in accordance with Article 349 TFEU;

3. In the case of negotiated access, Member States or, where Member States have so provided, the regulatory authorities shall take the necessary measures for natural gas undertakings and eligible customers either inside or outside the territory covered by the interconnected system to be able to negotiate access to storage facilities and linepack, when technically and/or economically necessary for providing efficient access to the system, as well as for the organisation of access to other ancillary services.

14. Emphasises the need for stronger measures aimed at the prevention of natural disasters and, in this connection, eagerly awaits the publication in 2008 of two Commission studies aimed at the creation of an integrated strategy for the prevention of natural disasters; suggests furthermore that the Commission look into potential uses of open coordination for the purpose of preventing natural disasters, through comprehensive care for the land in order to increase the retention capacity of bodies of water and comprehensive forest care to reduce as far as possible the fire load of forests and the spread and velocity of fires; points out t ...[+++]hat the recovered biomass could contribute to the economic feasibility of operations;

6. Urges the Member States to reflect on the role of forests in the European Union, as part of a systematic set of land management measures including flood safety measures concentrating on more effective water retention and geological safety measures designed to stabilise slopes and carry out reafforestation wherever possible; proposes that a public debate be launched on their environmental, social and economic role, and that this debate be used to increase awareness of the existing disparities between Europe's forests and particularly the specific nature of Medite ...[+++]rranean forests; believes that there is a need to make better use of the Structural and Cohesion Funds for structural measures to prevent drought, the main aggravating factor in natural disasters; also believes that incentives should be provided for forest conservation and management of the countryside so as to establish a variety of uses (forestry, grazing, arable crops, irrigation, etc.); maintains that monoculture should be practised only in clearly circumscribed areas particularly well suited to the species concerned and the related economic activities, and that it is necessary for such systems to be based on good sense and for owners and producers to exercise their responsibilities scrupulously;

The economic territory of each country, as defined in Commission Decision 91/450/EEC(5),also includes extraregio territory, made up of parts of the economic territory that cannot be attached to a certain region (air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf, territorial enclaves, in particular embassies, consulates and military bases, and deposits of oil, natural gas, etc. in international waters, outside the continental ...[+++]shelf, worked by resident units).

The economic territory of each country, as defined in Commission Decision 91/450/EEC(5), also includes extraregio territory, made up of parts of the economic territory that cannot be attached to a certain region (air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf, territorial enclaves, in particular embassies, consulates and military bases, and deposits of oil, natural gas, etc. in international waters, outside the continental ...[+++] shelf, worked by resident units).