Traduction de «Intergovernmental Regional Committee for PROMEDLAC » (Anglais → Français) :

- having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 17 February 2000 on "The 2000 Intergovernmental Conference",

4. Requests the Member States to introduce in the forthcoming intergovernmental conference revisions of the Treaty by introducing the principle of balanced participation of women and men in the composition of EU bodies such as the Commission, Court of Justice, Court of First Instance, Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions;

Mr Barnier attended the full meeting of the Committee on 13 April which dealt with 'the role of the regions, the implementation and future of regional policy and the intergovernmental conference'.

- having regard to the proposals made by the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the Assembly of the Regions of Europe and the Council of European Municipalities and Regions for amendments to be made to the Treaty on European Union in connection with the Intergovernmental Conference in 1997 (Conference 'For a Europe based on Democracy and Solidarity', Brussels, 1-3 October 1996) and the European Charter of Frontier and Transfrontier Regions adopted by the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR),

Thus Member States should endeavour to ensure sustainable forestry management on a national basis; 12. INTEND to give priority to a fast implementation and follow-up of the resolutions adopted at the Ministerial Conference on Protection of Forests in Europe (Helsinki, June 1993); 13. WELCOME the draft Council Regulation on operations to promote tropical forests, which will enable the Community to play a more active role within the field of tropical forestry on a sustainable basis and in particular promote Community policies within this field; 14. REAFFIRM the undertaking of the Community and its Member States to participate actively in the wo ...[+++]rk of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Convention on Desertification which is due to be opened for signature in Paris in June 1994; 15. UNDERLINE the fact that the effective use of financial resources and their delivery are decisive for meeting the environmental goals set at the UNCED Conference and WELCOME that the Development Council on 25 May confirmed that following the global financial commitment of ECU 3 billion made in Rio, the Community and its Member States would provide an initial tranche of ECU 600 million in 1993 for specific projects and programmes in key Agenda 21 sectors; 16. ACKNOWLEDGE in this respect the important role of the international and regional financial institutions in enabling the developing countries to carry out the decisions of UNCED, and CALL UPON the international financial institutions to give urgent priority to the follow-up to UNCED; 17. They further ACCENTUATE the special importance of the Global Environment Facility and STRONGLY SUPPORT the current process of replenishment and the restructuring of the Facility before 31 December 1993 into an effective and transparent body with a balanced and equitable representation of all countries, in order to make it available as the permanent financial mechanism for the Climate Change and Biodiversity Conventions, an ...

The President of the Committee of the Regions, Jacques Blanc, highlited in his concluding statement that the plenary session had shown that the Committee of the Regions now had more allies in the Community institutions and that it could count on them. He referred in particular to the support coming from Ms. Wulf-Mathies and from the chairman of the European Parliament's Regional Policy Committee, Roberto Speciale who, the previous ...[+++]day, had put forward the idea that the Parliament and the Committee of the Regions could organise a large-scale meeting with local and regional authorities on the eve of the Intergovernmental Conference.