Translation of "Communauté d'exploitation des wagons EUROP " (French → English) :

In line with the flagship initiative 'Digital Agenda for Europe' , the specific objective of ICT research and innovation (RI) is to enable Europe to support, develop and exploit the opportunities brought by ICT progress for the benefits of its citizens, businesses and scientific communities.

This entails safeguarding and further developing a competitive, sustainable and entrepreneurial space industry in combination with a world-class space research community to maintain and strengthen European leadership and non-dependence in space systems to foster innovation in the space sector, and to enable space-based terrestrial innovation, for example by using remote sensing and navigation data.

This entails safeguarding and further developing a competitive, sustainable and entrepreneurial space industry in combination with a world-class space research community to maintain and strengthen European leadership and non-dependence in space systems to foster innovation in the space sector, and to enable space-based terrestrial innovation, for example by using remote sensing and navigation data.

Economic analysis and surveys seem to indicate a lack of dynamism in Europe and it is generally felt that there is scope for enhancing entrepreneurial activity, particularly if the Community is to exploit fully the opportunities arising in the knowledge economy.

79. Further urges all parties concerned to recognise that nature protection is not achievable solely through the identification and protection of designated areas, but must also be based on general policies which stimulate sustainable economic activity both in the countryside and in urban areas (including recreational pursuits), encourage environmentally friendly agriculture and forestry and the development of the urban and industrial environments, integrate environmental considerations into the broad range of public policy wherever appropriate, most obviously in relation to transport and energy, reduce overall levels of air- and water-based pollution, preserve soil quality and other natural resources, and discourage forms of economic activ ...[+++]ity which lead to the destruction of valuable habitats (such as the draining of wetlands); to this end seek ways to avoid the reproduction of problems characteristic of the EU 15, problems associated with intensive farming, monoculture, displacement of agricultural labour, and a failure to take into account the general and economic value of biodiversity; such ways to include, inter alia, the broad exploitation of possibilities to counter such tendencies (and to encourage, for example, the survival of rural communities, smallholdings, traditional and ecologically friendly methods of field division - such as hedges, water channels and dry stone walls - rare breeds of domestic animal, and ecological corridors) offered by existing budgetary measures such as the EAGGF and the Community Instrument LEADER;

Finally, the Community and the Member States try to promote in a systematic and coordinated way the sustainable management and use of forests, their protection and their development, when implementing a pan-European process for the protection of forests and cooperation as agreed with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and also within the framework of global conferences on the protection of Europe’s forests.