Traduction de «Non-reversibility the half-connectors » (Anglais → Français) :

At report stage, the government reversed over half of the committee's recommendations, basically all of the substantive ones, and produced the bill that is before us today, a watered-down version that many describe as worse than the 1988 bill it replaces.

The Biodiversity Action Plan on Economic and Development Co-operation builds on the objectives of the EC Biodiversity Strategy, and sets out ways to achieve them in the context of the international development targets, with two development targets of particular relevance: the development of national strategies for sustainable development, so as to reverse the loss of environmental resources by 2015, and the reduction of poverty by half by 2015.

reduce to an absolute minimum the pollution of groundwater by diffuse inputs, in particular from agricultural activities, using the combined approach pursuant to Article 11, with the aim of achieving for all bodies of groundwater, within 10 years from the date of entry into force of this Directive, subject to the application of extensions determined in accordance with paragraph 3 and to the application of paragraphs 4, 5, 6 and 7, at least insignificantly anthropogenically polluted groundwater status, in accordance with the provisions laid down in Annex V, and a reversal of any significant and sustained upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant resulting from the impact of human activity which is over half the level of the quality ...[+++]standard pursuant to Annex V;

The Commission's examination reveals that the tendency towards an improvement in capacity utilization, noted in the second half of the 1980s, has been reversed over the last two years, as a result of the general decline in world economic activity.

While European science has considerable potential (European researchers publish three times as much as their Japanese counterparts), it has difficulties in translating research results into practical applications. At the end of the 1970s, Japan filed half as many patent applications as the Community in the United States, but the proportion has now been reversed.

The main activities concerned are: - a "reverse brain drain" project to repatriate some 300 qualified professional people who are to take up key posts in the administration, production and the public services (ECU 5.1 million); - special fund to promote the exports of Honduras and Nicaragua (a total of ECU 32 million for the two countries, with half for Nicaragua). The aim of this funding exercise is to grant loans to export undertakings to enable them to finance fixed capital investment, purchase inputs, have pre-investment studies carried out or pay for technical assistance; - food aid (to an estimated total value of ECU 10.5 million) with part of the foodstuffs intended for sale to generate counterpart funds (in the case of cereals and ...[+++] vegetable oils) and part for free distribution (in the case of milk).