Translation of "Tissu du cristallin naturel " (French → English) :

Billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of jobs and even the natural environment itself are at stake on this issue. Indeed, the very fabric of our society may be damaged irreparably if we yield to international and domestic pressure and ratify Kyoto without thoroughly examining the relevant economic, social and environmental implications.

17. Skeletal muscles [36] of mammalian and bird species recognised as fit for human consumption with naturally included or adherent tissue, where the total fat and connective tissue content does not exceed the values indicated below and where the meat constitutes an ingredient of another food.

The programme priorities are: improving the competitiveness of and developing the productive fabric; innovation, RD and the information society; the environment, countryside and water resources; development of human resources, employment and equal opportunities; local and urban development; transport and energy networks; agriculture and rural development; fisheries and aquaculture structures.

(d) helping to develop the social fabric of rural areas, to safeguard the environment, to preserve the countryside (inter alia by securing the conservation of natural agricultural resources) and to offset the effects of natural handicaps on agriculture.

3. Assistance under the EAGGF Guidance Section is to be geared to the following tasks : a) strengthening and reorganizing agricultural structures, including those for the marketing and processing of agricultural and fishery products, especially with a view to reform of the Community's common agricultural policy, b) converting agricultural production and fostering the development of supplementary activities for farmers in rural areas, c) ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers, d) helping to develop the social fabric of rural areas, to safeguard and protect the environment, to preserve the countryside, among other things by securing the conservation of natural agricultu ...[+++]ral resources, and to offset the effects of natural handicaps on agriculture.

----------------- (1) COM (88) 388 - 2 - Energy derived from fossil sources - Oil and natural gas (oil exploitation and recovery techniques, conversion of gas into solid fuel, etc.) - Solid fuel (fluidized bed combustion, coals gasification, new burners, etc.) Renewable sources of energy - Wind energy (large-scale wind energy installations of the order of megawatts, wind measuremments and models) - Photovoltaic solar energy (chrystalline and amorphous silicon technology) - Hydroelectric energy (small power plants, study of the potenti ...[+++]al of energy from the sea and wave energy) - Biomass (production and storage of energy crops, biological and thermal conversion, etc.) - Geothermal energy (hot dry rocks, study of deep geology, etc.). The framework programme for Community projects in technological research and development (1987-1991) keeps the need to continue and update RD measures taken in the field of energy since 1975.