Traduction de «forest policy » (Anglais → Français) :

THE COUNCIL RESOLUTION OF 15 DECEMBER 1998 ON A FORESTRY STRATEGY FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION [1] established a framework for forest-related actions in support of sustainable forest management (SFM), based on the co-ordination of the forest policies of the Member States and Community policies and initiatives relevant to forests and forestry.

13. Emphasises, recalling that to date there is no specific forest policy on the prevention of forest fires, that, particularly in the Mediterranean region, forest fires occur on a regular basis, and are both a cause and a consequence of climate change; points out that storms and forest fires and pests can be mitigated using improved and active forest management and forestry techniques through, for example, grazing and agro-forestry practices under the common agricultural policy;

44. Notes the significant progress made in the negotiations within Forest Europe towards a ‘European Forest Convention’ as a binding framework for sustainable forest management and for improving the balance of interests in forest policy, and calls on the Member States and the Commission to make all necessary efforts to resume these negotiations and drive them forward to a successful conclusion;

(EN) In the absence of provisions for forestry in the EU Treaty, forest policy is the competence of the Member States. The Commission supports them through a range of instruments.

35. Stresses that the severe exposure of the forest ecosystems of the Mediterranean regions to climate change should be taken fully into account; calls on the Commission to introduce, among the agri-environmental measures provided for under the common agricultural policy, specific interventions designed to prevent and avoid the spread of forest fires, and to undertake in-depth consideration of the introduction of a common forest policy to deal more effectively with climate change and natural disasters; urges the Commission, in its proposal for an EU action plan for adapting to climate change, to prioritise the prevention and combating ...[+++]of droughts and forest fires in southern Europe;

It is certainly useful to reconsider at both national and Community level agricultural production policies, forestation policies and policies for managing hydrological risk areas.