Translation of "Directrice pour la région atlantique " (French → English) :

12. Underlines the importance of sustainable, responsible and high-quality tourism for the regeneration of the Atlantic area and the creation of high-value, all-year-round jobs; stresses, therefore, the need to protect, and promote the attractiveness of, the Atlantic coastal areas, landscapes and cultural heritage, and to develop alternative and thematic tourism products, with a view to enhancing the region’s profile as a tourist destination and ensuring a sustainable economy; calls for better use of the EU support prog ...[+++]rammes in favour of tourism and for action to raise awareness concerning available funding instruments;

2. Stresses the need for effective crossborder coordination and cooperation for the construction and use of road and rail infrastructures, including high-speed train lines, airports, seaports, inland ports, hinterland terminals and logistics, with a view to developing a more sustainable and multimodal transport system; recalls the importance of air/maritime transport and peripheral airport/port infrastructures for the social and economic cohesion of the outermost regions of the At ...[+++]lantic area; underlines also the need to facilitate mobility between the Atlantic and other seaboards, especially the Mediterranean, in order to ensure efficient transport links;

1. Emphasises the importance of integrating the Atlantic region more closely into the trans-European transport networks; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote, in the context of the future TEN-T guidelines and the Connecting Europe Facility, the development of a comprehensive multimodal transport system across the Atlantic region, focusing on both the north–south and the west–east axes, while taking account of the particular features of the outermost regions; stresses the need to give priority to sustainable modes of transport such as rail, inland waterways and motorways of t ...[+++]he sea, with a view to alleviating congestion in road transport, to define precisely the areas of logistics and of modal interchange, and to undertake a cost-benefit analysis for the use of each type of infrastructure;

We have with us Pat Chamut, who is the assistant deputy minister for fisheries management, Earl Wiseman, who was before this committee quite a number of times on previous issues, director general of the international affairs directorate, and Nadia Bouffard, who is director, Atlantic affairs division, international affairs directorate.

Natalie Neville, Director, Quebec-Atlantic Team, Implementation Branch, Treaties and Aboriginal Government, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada: It is my understanding that between the two boards, say in Nunavik or Nunatsiavut, there would be ongoing dialogue on those matters through the provincial, federal or the Inuit body to discuss, for instance, the caribou in Nunatsiavut straying over to Quebec.

Natalie Neville, Director, Quebec-Atlantic Team, Implementation Branch, Treaties and Aboriginal Government;