25. Stresses the role of corporate social responsibility and adherence to the highest international environmental and labour standards and the application of BAT (best available technologies); stresses furthermore the great responsibility borne by businesses in extraction to ensure that the health of nearby residents is not adversely affected by extraction; calls on the Commission to follow the spirit of the US Dodd-Frank Bill on conflict minerals and urges the Commission to present a legislative proposal; supports the Extractive I ...[+++]ndustries Transparency Initiative (EITI);

(2) Decision No 1600/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 July 2002 laying down the sixth Community Environment Action Programme calls for developing and implementing measures on waste prevention and management by, inter alia, developing a set of quantitative and qualitative reduction targets covering all relevant waste, to be achieved by 2010; encouraging ecologically sound and sustainable product design; the formulation of operational measures to encourage waste prevention, e.g. by stimulating re-use and recovery, the phasing out of certain substances and materials through product-related measures; the develop ...[+++]ment or revision of the legislation on wastes, including, inter alia, construction and demolition waste, biodegradable wastes, clarification of the distinction between waste and non-waste and development of adequate criteria for the further elaboration of Annexes IIA and IIB to Directive 75/442/EEC.

the Gleneagles Plan of Action with its strong emphasis on implementation of commitments on technology transfer and managing the impacts of climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and LOOKS FORWARD to working together with G8 and other countries to pursue measures outlined in the plan; the positive and productive discussion at the preparatory meeting of ministers in Ottawa on technology, adaptation, enhancing participation, market forces and sustainability; the Greenland Dialogue meeting, which allowed for a constructive exchange on possible ways forward; the fifth meeting of the Forum of Ibero-American Ministe ...[+++]rs of the Environment in Panama on 21 and 22 September 2005; the China-EU Partnership on Climate Change and the India-EU Initiative on Clean Development and Climate Change, which demonstrate how economies in different stages of development can work together, through transfer of technology and building of capacity, to tackle climate change; the sixteenth EU-Russia summit which demonstrates the close and growing cooperation between the EU, its Member States and Russia on climate change, including work on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and an active dialogue on continuing international cooperation after the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol; the forthcoming Beijing International Renewable Energy Conference in November 2005, believing it will make a positive contribution to advancing understanding of how to drive technological innovation and of the importance of using existing technologies with a view to moving towards a low-carbon emitting economy; the decision to place climate change high on the agenda of the summit with Canada, to prepare the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 11) and the first Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 1) in Montreal in December 2005 ...

The Tecam Sea incident occurred only a few days following the beginning of a six-month project for the use of satellite technology for environmental monitoring, and a couple of months after the signature of an MOU designed to promote seamless cooperation between DFO, Transport Canada and Environment Canada in order to monitor and control illegal oil pollution in Atlantic Canadian coastal waters.

2. Considers that the most important environmental protection requirement that must be integrated into the CFP is a rigorous and effective precautionary approach to fisheries management, one which ensures that fish stocks, both commercial and non-commercial, and other marine species are not reduced to levels below which their functioning in the marine ecosystem is impaired;

There will be specific interventions on Community and national aids, governmental incentives to enterprises for the utilisation of the "best technology" in the environmental field, financial aspects, credits and prospects for investments in the environmental field, insurance, technological aspects, the environmental damage from a legal point of view : analysis and comparison, the link between environment and fiscal aspects, industr ...[+++]y, agriculture and energy.