Traduction de «programme nature » (Français → Anglais) :

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop wilderness areas; stresses the need for the provision of special funding for reducing fragmentation, careful management of re-wilding areas, development of compensation mechanisms and programmes, raising awareness, building understanding and introducing wilderness-related concepts such as the role of free natural processes and structural elements resulting from such processes into the monitoring and measurement of favourable conservation status; considers that this work should ...[+++] be carried out in cooperation with the local population and other stakeholders;

Considers that rural development policy and the integration of environmental protection into the EU agricultural sector must be reinforced; judges, however, the Rural Development Fund insufficient to finance biodiversity and wilderness conservation in terms of resources and its programming and expertise;

2. Evaluations may be of a strategic nature in order to examine the evolution of a programme or group of programmes in relation to Community and national priorities, or of an operational nature in order to support the monitoring of an operational programme.

I hope, however, that the conclusions of the ‘Article 8 Group’, (Habitats Directive) are taken on board, notably that the current funding of the NATURA 2000 network by means of the LIFE-Nature instrument (47% of the total funds of the LIFE programme) is clearly insufficient; that the application process is overly bureaucratic; and that the Life-Nature programme must be substantially strengthened, and in .

J. whereas infrastructure such as roads, dams and ports fragment landscapes and isolate populations of flora and fauna from one another; notes that the fragmentation and shrinkage of habitats is having the effect of isolating populations from one another and thus reducing genetic exchanges as well as hampering populations" survival, and preventing the establishment of Natura 2000 as a coherent ecological network based on Special Protection Areas (SPA) under the Birds Directive, and the Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) designated under the Habitats Directive; whereas adequate ecological corridors and buffer zones are an essential contribution to nature conservat ...[+++]ion in Europe; whereas larger, interlinked areas of protection are necessary in order to guarantee the success of the Habitats Directive; whereas there is an urgent need to improve environmental impact assessment and introduce strategic environment assessment of transport projects and other land use planning initiatives to secure the coherence of Natura 2000,

The results achieved by the SOCRATES programme in the area of languages has nevertheless suffered from some degree of tension between two objectives of the programme: one of a "qualitative" nature - all too infrequently attained - designed to encourage against a background of cultural diversity the learning of the languages of the European Union languages less widely taught, the other of a "quantitative" nature which tends to favour an increase in the number of people able to speak one or more foreign languages.