Traduction de «Taux de la région intermédiaire des montagnes » (Français → Anglais) :

B. whereas the region is part of the group of middle-income countries that have achieved notable successes in reducing poverty — from 44 % to 33 % in a single decade — and inequality through economic growth and political and social reforms, but nevertheless, one in three Latin Americans still lives below the poverty line – 180 million people, of whom 52 million live on less than EUR 2 a day – and 10 countries in the region remain among the 15 most unequal countries in the world; whereas some countries have malnutrition rates above 20 ...[+++] % and 28 million citizens do not know how to read or write, with 44 million people outside the welfare systems;

In order to facilitate the management of Union funding, to help accelerate investments in Member States and regions and to improve the availability of funding to implement the cohesion policy it is necessary to allow, in justified cases, temporarily and without prejudice to the 2014 to 2020 programming period, an increase of interim payments and payments of the final balance from the Structural Funds as well as from the Cohesion Fund, by an amount corresponding to ten percentage points above the co-financing rate applicable for each priority axis, for Member States which are facing serious difficulties with respect to their financial sta ...[+++]bility, and have requested to benefit from this measure.

Many islands, mountain areas and thinly populated regions suffer from particularly severe access problems, of which account will be taken in the allocation of resources to the "Regional competitiveness and employment" Objective through the determination of regional criteria and an increase in the maximum rate of Community finance.

The reference is clear where variations in the amount of the toll are permitted in relation to the emission category to which the vehicles belong and to the day or time of use of the infrastructure, or rather less obvious where the possibility of a toll mark-up is allowed where a route crosses sensitive areas such as mountainous regions.

This shift will have a massively adverse impact on countries such as Greece, which have a high proportion of mountain regions and a small budget, with the result that it will be impossible to support these regions from national funds.

In the light of the memoranda forwarded to the Commission by Austria, France and Italy on hill farming and forestry, the opinion drawn up by the Committee of the Regions on a policy for hill farming in Europe, and the broad consensus regarding these traditional activities, which are seen as the cornerstone of any form of sustainable development in mountain areas, it is proposed that income support be stepped up for farms by means of compensatory allowances and that the principle of differentiated rates of assistance for mountain areas with regard to aid for investment, industry, technical improvements, processing and marketing of products (farming, stockbreeding, forestry and other basic activities) should be ...[+++]maintained (reintroduced) in the regulation on rural development.