Translation of "en bon état et conditionnement " (French → English) :

It is imperative that the environmental pillar of the maritime strategy not be a mere add-on for spiritual enrichment purposes, but that the restoration of the good ecological status of the seas and oceans be an essential objective on which the judgments in the other policies of the EU and the Member States depend.

8. Notes that the timetable for the Water Framework Directive, whereby good ecological status is to be achieved in coastal waters by 2015, has already been implemented in the Member States; considers that it is not logical or appropriate simultaneously to propose a less ambitious target for partly overlapping and adjoining marine areas; stresses that it will not be possible to achieve good environmental status in several areas of coastal water unless there is correspondingly good environmental status in the adjoining marine areas;

A proper environment and social policy is possible only if there is economic growth and a functioning labour market; there is a close and practical connection between the two, for the success of the one as a policy is conditional upon the other, and that this resolution makes this clear is crucially important.

"Conditioning" means the storage of live bivalve molluscs coming from class A production areas, purification centres or dispatch centres in tanks or any other installation containing clean seawater, or in natural sites, to remove sand, mud or slime, to preserve or to improve organoleptic qualities and to ensure that they are in a good state of vitality before wrapping or packaging.

An effort should therefore be made to place shellfish in water in which they filter optimally, so that they preserve or improve their organoleptic and hygiene quality and are in a good state of vitality before packaging.

6. The provisions to be incorporated in an annex to the Directive are the following: - for species whose conservation status is favourable and whose migration begins before 20 February, the hunting season closes at the latest within the ten-day period following the ten-day period when migratory passage begins; - for species whose conservation status is favourable and whose migration begins after 20 February, or for species whose conservation status is unfavourable and whose migration begins before 20 February, the hunting season closes at the latest within the same ten-day period as that during which migratory passage begins; - for spe ...[+++]cies whose conservation status is unfavourable and whose migration begins after 20 February, the hunting season closes at the latest within the ten-day period preceding that during which migratory passage begins.