Further, the desire to drive up profit can create a perverse incentive for the adoption of riskier strategies.

18. Underlines the importance of a transparent management of natural resources as they are key to development; urges the negotiators of the final EPA to account fully for such a mechanism and to suggest best practices in order that Côte d'Ivoire may make the maximum gains from such resources; reaffirms in this context the views set out in its resolution of 13 March 2007 on corporate social responsibility and asks the Commission to ensure that EU-based transnational companies with production facilities in ACP countries abide by core ILO standards, social and environmental covenants and international agreements to achieve a worldwide bal ...[+++]ance between economic growth and higher social and environmental standards;

18. Underlines the importance of a transparent management of natural resources as they are key to development; urges the negotiators of the final EPA to account fully for such a mechanism and to suggest best practices in order that Côte d'Ivoire may make the maximum gains from such resources; reaffirms in this context the views set out in its resolution of 13 March 2007 on corporate social responsibility and asks the Commission to ensure that EU-based transnational companies with production facilities in ACP countries abide by core ILO standards, social and environmental covenants and international agreements to achieve a worldwide bal ...[+++]ance between economic growth and higher social and environmental standards;

In that case the Commission took the view that given the specific circumstances namely ‘the topography of the region, the absence of cable networks and the need to maximise the benefits of the aid, the use of ADSL technology appears to be the appropriate technology delivering the objectives of the project’, at paragraph 45.

Certainly we cannot forget that the main objective of this directive is to reduce as far as possible the risks associated with waste, prevent its creation and make the maximum possible use of resources and products, which means that the disappearance of previous or current waste dumps, and the recovery or removal of them is a priority. Consequently, the figures for energy recovery which should come from scientific studies in which each category of products is analysed, must be taken into account.

This objective implies both removing the remaining direct and indirect barriers and, besides, drawing up policies that create the conditions for the players concerned to derive maximum benefit from the European area.