Translation of "Protection contre les gelées par méthodes directes " (French → English) :

Norad has provided Canada with enhanced protection from direct military attack.

Therefore, in order to afford optimal protection to animals used for testing cosmetic products pending implementation of the prohibition of animal tests for cosmetic products and the marketing of animal-tested cosmetic products in the Community, these provisions should be amended in order to provide for the systematic use of alternative methods, which reduce the number of animals used or reduce the suffering caused, in those cases where full replacement alternatives are not yet available, as provided by Article 7(2) a ...[+++]nd (3) of Directive 86/609/EEC, when these methods offer consumers a level of protection equivalent to that of the conventional methods which they are intended to replace.

- The adoption of other environmental protection legislation, most importantly Directive 96/61/EC on integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) () and Directive 96/62/EC on ambient air quality () , and the growing importance of the combating of acidification () and tropospheric ozone, which directly affect the area to which this directive applies.

The European Commission has decided to bring to an end the infringement proceedings against France for failure to classify the Loire estuary as a special protection area under Directive 79/409/EEC ("Wild birds").

- Modalities : First reduction stage of five years Credit for measures taken since 1986 - Scope : Priority to the sectors in structural surplus (cereals, rice, sugar, oilseeds, milk, beef and veal, pigmeat, eggs and poultry meat) - Rhythm : The scale of the movement should relate to a certain extent to the world market situation. An open approach : rebalancing and tariffication The problems occurring in agriculture are not exclusively due to excessive levels of support. The means by which support and protection are ensured is equally a source of serious difficulty. In particular, the different levels of support and protection for ...[+++] products directly competing at the production or consumption level provoke imbalances and inconsistencies, which are a cause of trade distortions. The Uruguay Round provides a unique opportunity to tackle this question by the rebalancing of support and protection. This is a fundamental question for the Community. Given the fact that rebalancing can be solved in the context of tariffication, the Commission is prepared to consider including elements of tariffication in the rules of external protection : - Boarder protection assured by a fixed component (reduced at a similar rate as the SMU) completed by a corrective factor taking into account exchange rate variations and world market fluctuations beyond certain agreed limits.

These new proposals form a useful adjunct to an impressive series of recent advances made by the Community under the pharmaceutical programme of the White Paper, in particular the package of measures concerning biotechnological drugs of December 1986 (marketing conditions, clinical trials, protection against copies), the Directive on the transparency of prices and reimbursement of the cost of medicines by the social security systems of December 1988, and the adoption of four framework directives ...[+++] in May and June 1989 which extend the pharmaceutical directives (quality, safety, and effectiveness of drugs) to vaccines, radio-pharmaceuticals and blood derivatives and to products intended for export to the third world.