Traduction de «Water Transportation Assistance Program » (Anglais → Français) :

80. Underlines that assistance in providing safe drinking water and sanitation should be given high priority in the allocation of EU funds and in assistance programming; calls on the Commission to ensure adequate financial support to capacity-development actions in the water domain, relying on and cooperating with existing international platforms and initiatives;

79. Underlines that assistance in providing safe drinking water and sanitation should be given high priority in the allocation of EU funds and in assistance programming; calls on the Commission to ensure adequate financial support to capacity-development actions in the water domain, relying on and cooperating with existing international platforms and initiatives;

20. Stresses the need of including in the Operational Programmes developed with the Member States the flagship projects for the development of the Danube Region; furthermore the Commission should ensure that the Operational Programs cover the financing of flagship projects aiming at developing inland water transport in the framework of the Danube Strategy.

1. Notes that the financial year 2005 will be the first in which appropriations will have to be available to meet the needs of a European Union of 25 Member States; in this connection, recognises the importance of the amended financial perspective as regards determining the total amounts of available appropriations, but, in the light of this provision, stresses that the necessary levels of financial support for the Structural Funds, transport policy and tourism policy should be available and that these sums should be allocated in line with recognised needs and fully and effectively used in accordance with the legislation in force and th ...[+++]e wishes of the budgetary authority; in its special report No 7/2003 on the implementation assistance programming for the period 2000-2006 within the framework of the Structural Funds, the Court of Auditors points out that, because statistics had not been updated, some regions would have received Objective 1 assistance when their GDP was in excess of 75% of the Community average; therefore calls on the Commission to provide a formal explanation of this matter;

Mr. René Laurin (Joliette, BQ): Mr. Speaker, it would appear that the Canadian government is planning to withdraw, by the end of March 1997, its 40 per cent share of the funding of the agricultural day haul transportation assistance program, to which Quebec contributes to the tune of 60 per cent. In the Lanaudière area only, these cuts will mean an $80,000 shortfall.

Why did the government, in its transportation assistance program for the Atlantic region, not follow the recommendations made by the industry, by the people locally and by the economic development officers and why was there not a gradual decrease in these types of taxes, so that, in three or five years, a new economic situation could be achieved, over which the people in the community would have total control?