Traduction de «Détermination de la source d'approvisionnement » (Français → Anglais) :

38. Underlines the need for more transparent and predictable framework conditions on regulatory approval processes for setting up new mines for extraction of metals and minerals, while at the same time not compromising environmental standards;

The rapporteur believes that since this definition is crucial in determining the levels of supply standard as established in Art. 7 the text should allow for some flexibility for Member States to adjust to their national circumstances with clearly defined criteria.

In addition, the criteria used to define significant point sources and to assess their harmfulness, and those relating to specific monitoring and decisions as to when and how to rehabilitate a point source, should be drawn up on the basis of national provisions to be set out in the management plan.

According to this principle, each country or group of countries should be free to determine how it supplies its people with food.

When they formulate this general policy on security of supply, the Member States will pay the greatest possible attention to the importance of ensuring continuity of gas supplies in difficult circumstances, especially to consumers who have no alternative energy source, and the need to ensure adequate stocks of gas or alternative fuels, to diversify supplies and to establish a balance between the various sources of gas supplies.

(2) The particular geographical situation of the French overseas departments (FOD) imposes additional transport costs in supplying essential products, for processing and as agricultural inputs. In addition, objective factors arising as a result of insularity and extreme remoteness impose further constraints on operators and producers in the FOD that severely handicap their activities. This is true particularly in the case of the supply of cereals, which are by and large not produced and cannot be produced on a large scale in the FOD, rendering them dependent on external sources of supply. These handicaps can be alleviated by lowering the ...[+++] price of these essential products. It is therefore appropriate to introduce specific supply arrangements with a view to ensuring supply to the FOD from local production and to mitigating the additional costs of the remoteness, insularity and outermost location of the FOD.