Traduction de «zone de problème » (Français → Anglais) :

Cities and urban areas concentrate not only opportunities but also challenges, and account should be taken of the specific problems facing urban areas, such as unemployment and social exclusion (including the problem of the ‘working poor’), high and rising crime rates, increased congestion and the existence of pockets of deprivation within city boundaries.

In particular, it will focus on supporting the government's efforts to fight organised crime and to uphold the rule of law in the whole territory, with emphasis on the former crisis areas.

a. improve security on sections of road and parking sites generally and especially in the problem areas identified, including by stepping up the presence and visibility of law enforcement officials on the relevant roads and sites;

The Commission points out certain problems in this connection, including urban sprawl (the expansion of cities into surrounding rural areas, creating areas of low-density housing and increasing transport problems), the large amounts of unused, derelict land and high numbers of empty properties, the location of infrastructure and the need to protect and increase the number of green areas.

1. By way of derogation from Articles 3, 4 and 5 and in accordance with Article 95(10) of the Treaty, a Member State may take measures to require that in specific areas, within its territory, fuels may be marketed only if they comply with more stringent environmental specifications than those provided for in this Directive for all or part of the vehicle fleet with a view to protecting the health of the population in a specific agglomeration or the environment in a specific ecologically or environmentally sensitive area in that Member State, if atmospheric or ground water pollution constitutes, or may reasonably be expected to constitute, a serious and ...[+++]recurrent problem for human health or the environment".

The definition of highly selective geographical priorities is not necessary in the medium term owing to the extent of the problem areas and the smallness of some countries.