Translation of "Positif take-up gearing " (English → French) :

4. The evaluation of the risk of significant adverse impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems carried out under the assessment referred to in paragraph 2 shall take into account, as appropriate, differing conditions prevailing in areas where fishing activities with bottom gears are well established and in areas where fishing such activities have not taken place or only occur occasionally.

Driving economically and in an environmentally friendly way, taking into account the revolutions per minute, changing gears, braking and accelerating (categories BE, C, CE, C1, C1E, D, DE, D1, D1E only);

However, as the adoption of its proposal for a Council Regulation permanently banning the use of the fishing gear concerned will take some time, it decided to take emergency measures to bring damage due to towed gear to an immediate end.

Applying the precautionary principle to the control of, and where appropriate, reduction in mortality rates caused by fisheries involves taking account of uncertainties as regards evaluation of stocks and the dynamics of the populations exploited, in particular with regard to the variability of recruitment (number of young who become vulnerable to the fishing gear each year) or the uncertainties relating to natural mortality rates.

In view of the above the Commission plans to focus the LIFE programme over the next four years on the following main areas: - priority implementation of the Natura 2000 European network on nature protection, - strengthened link between regulations on the environment and structural financial aid, in particular from Community funds and financial instruments which concern the environment, (1) see Press release P(92)15 of 18.3.1992 - demonstration, promotion and technical assistance projects for local authorities with a view to incorporating environmental factors into regional planning and development, - promotion of sustainable development and integration of the environment in industrial activities, such as projects to check the economic feasi ...[+++]bility of clean technologies, promotion of environmental audits, ecolabels, etc. - assisting the Mediterranean and Baltic third countries other than associated CEECs to set up environmental administrative structures, to establish policies and action programmes on the environment and to take measures geared to sustainable development.

The term "passive gear" (also called "static gear") embraces a large number of systems for fishing, the main feature of which is that the fish come to them rather than the other way round: examples are various kinds of panel nets, gillnets, pots, longlines with hooks, etc. All these gears come in many different forms and are deployed and used in many different ways, depending on the region where they are customary and the target species or species group which they are designed to take.