Translation of "Règlement sur la protection des forêts contre le feu " (French → English) :

Time of first alert: the local time (hour, minute) at which the official forest fire protection services were informed of the outbreak of the fire.

(6) The Community has already addressed two of the causes adversely affecting forest ecosystem conditions by means of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3528/86 of 17 November 1986 on the protection of the Community's forests against atmospheric pollution(7) and Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 of 23 July 1992 on protection of the Community's forests against fire(8).

The objective of the European Union's scheme for the protection of forests against fire (Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92), which the Council adopted in July 1992, is to increase the consistency of measures to protect forests against fire in particular and of forestry measures in general, cofinanced by the EU in areas of fire risk.

Thus Member States should endeavour to ensure sustainable forestry management on a national basis; 12. INTEND to give priority to a fast implementation and follow-up of the resolutions adopted at the Ministerial Conference on Protection of Forests in Europe (Helsinki, June 1993); 13. WELCOME the draft Council Regulation on operations to promote tropical forests, which wi ...[+++]ll enable the Community to play a more active role within the field of tropical forestry on a sustainable basis and in particular promote Community policies within this field; 14. REAFFIRM the undertaking of the Community and its Member States to participate actively in the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Convention on Desertification which is due to be opened for signature in Paris in June 1994; 15. UNDERLINE the fact that the effective use of financial resources and their delivery are decisive for meeting the environmental goals set at the UNCED Conference and WELCOME that the Development Council on 25 May confirmed that following the global financial commitment of ECU 3 billion made in Rio, the Community and its Member States would provide an initial tranche of ECU 600 million in 1993 for specific projects and programmes in key Agenda 21 sectors; 16. ACKNOWLEDGE in this respect the important role of the international and regional financial institutions in enabling the developing countries to carry out the decisions of UNCED, and CALL UPON the international financial institutions to give urgent priority to the follow-up to UNCED; 17. They further ACCENTUATE the special importance of the Global Environment Facility and STRONGLY SUPPORT the current process of replenishment and the restructuring of the Facility before 31 December 1993 into an effective and transparent body with a balanced and equitable representation of all countries, in order to make it available as the permanent financial mechanism for the Climate Change and Biodiversity Conventions, an ...

The regulations concerned are Regulation 3528/86 on protection against air pollution and Regulation 3529/86 on protection against fire.

The committee considered the following statutory instruments: SOR/98-217 - Regulations Amending the Gasoline Regulations; SOR/99-437 - Regulations Amending the Exclusion List Regulations; SOR-2000-148 - Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (1115-Quizalofopethyl); SOR/95-531 - Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) 1995-1; SOR/96-549 - Yukon Timber Regulations, amendment; SOR/99-472 - Order Amending Schedule I to the Hazardous Products Act (Miscellaneous Program); SOR/2000-98 - Order Amending the Domestic Substances List and the Non-domestic Substances List; SOR/20 ...[+++]01-76 - Regulations Amending the Canadian Forces Superannuation Regulations; SOR/2001-120 - Regulations Amending the National Energy Board Act Part VI (Oil and Gas) Regulations (Miscellaneous Program); SOR/2001-163 - Regulations Amending the Yukon Forest Protection Regulations; and SOR/2001-181 - Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (907 - Linguistic Harmonization).