Traduction de «Amélioration du rendement portuaire » (Français → Anglais) :

The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, determine Community-wide ex-ante benchmarks so as to ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that provides incentives for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficient techniques, by taking account of the most efficient techniques, substitutes, alternative production processes, high efficiency cogeneration, efficient energy recovery of waste gases, use of biomass and capture and storage of CO, where such facilities are available, and shall not provide incentives to increase emissions.

Our commitment to the softwood lumber industry in a supplementary aid package would have included: $200 million over two years to enhance the forestry industry's competitive position, improving its environmental performance and taking advantage of the growing bioeconomy; $40 million over two years to improve the overall performance of the national forest innovation system; $30 million over two years to improve the competitiveness of the workforce to promote upgrading of workplace skills and to provide assistance to older workers impacted by forest industry layoffs; $100 million over two years to support economic diversification and ca ...[+++]pacity-building in communities affected by job losses in the forestry industry; $30 million over two years to develop new markets for Canadian wood products; and $200 million over two years to fight the spread of the pine beetle in B.C. forests.

With a view to achieving a third phase in energy efficiency improvement, the Commission shall then, in consultation with the interested parties, present proposals, if appropriate, regarding further improvement in energy efficiency of ballasts.

This Green Paper, which will be followed up at a conference next year, is intended to launch a wide-ranging debate on individual port issues and possible future policies which should help to increase efficiency, improve port and maritime infrastructure by integrating ports into the multimodal transport system and meet the Treaty obligations of free and fair competition in the port sector.

Competition and choice have been rejected by the Blair government and it is attempting to achieve improvements in performance through government control and intervention, setting national standards for performance, using organizations like the Commission for Health Improvement to inspect and visit hospitals, driving up change through a number of new mechanisms like the moderization agency for the health service, which is there to identify and spread good practice and to overcome some of the variations in performance.

However, low energy prices acting as a disincentive to energy efficiency improvements have slowed down the impressive efficiency improvements of the past (more than 20% improvement betwenn 1973 and 1982) to a meagre 3% improvement between 1982 and 1987.