17. Calls on the authorities to promote ways to reduce the demand for transport by enhancing the use of teleworking and ICT tools and to be aware of the figures of the Eurobarometer survey that show that EU citizens are concerned about the negative impact of increased traffic in cities, considering traffic congestion (76 %), air quality (81 %) and accident rates (73 %) to be the most serious problems; calls on the Commission to monitor the new forms of mobility related to transport (e.g. self-drive vehicles), to carry out, in cooperation with the Member States, an analysis of all available measures helping to minimise the ...[+++]number of injuries and deaths, in particular of pedestrians and cyclists, and to promote the use of bicycles in cities, along with investment in cycling lanes and measures to raise awareness among road users regarding safety for cyclists; points out that cycling plays an important role in contemporary planning of sustainable urban mobility and that it is part of the solution for preventing congestion; stresses that segregated cycle/pedestrian paths should be included as a matter of course when building or restoring roads; reiterates in this respect that the increased use of bicycles in cities enhances traffic flow, improves public health and reduces the carbon footprint; stresses that an increased use of bicycles in cities could contribute to the Europe 2020 objectives; asks the Member States to continue building ring roads in order to minimise the number of vehicles going unnecessarily through cities, and calls on the Commission to find ways to support these projects financially; stresses that more efforts need to be undertaken in order to reduce the number of cars in the city; calls on local authorities to promote policies to encourage green transport by providing facilities, reducing taxes and establishing green certificates;

By way of derogation from the first and second subparagraphs, Member States may calculate the amount of the payment by multiplying a figure corresponding to 25 % of the national average payment per hectare by the number of entitlements the farmer has activated in accordance with Article 25(1) or by the number of eligible hectares the farmer has declared in acordance with Article 28c(1a). The average payment per hectare shall be calculated by dividing the national ceiling for the calendar year 2019, as set out in Annex II, by the numbe ...[+++]r of eligible hectares declared in 2015 in accordance with Article 26(1) or, respectively, Article 28c(1a).

the numbers of fatal road traffic accidents and fatal accidents on board any means of transport during a journey in the course of work for persons employed outside the NACE Rev.2 sector H ‘Transportation’,

Following the sinking of the Prestige and the six similar accidents that have occurred in recent years off Galicia, which has consequently been hit more severely than any other part of the world by tragedies of this kind, and bearing in mind that political causes or negligence were a contributory factor in the accidents, has the Commission made plans to declare the Galician coast a disaster area and employ the financial resources and political means needed for Galicia’s economy to recover?

Following the sinking of the Prestige and the six similar accidents that have occurred in recent years off Galicia, which has consequently been hit more severely than any other part of the world by tragedies of this kind, and bearing in mind that political causes or negligence were a contributory factor in the accidents, has the Commission made plans to declare the Galician coast a disaster area and employ the financial resources and political means needed for Galicia’s economy to recover?

Furthermore, there has been a certain worrying rise in the number of accidents in certain Member States of the Union and, in view of enlargement, there is enormous concern about the situation of the States which are candidates for – not future, but imminent – accession with average work accident rates which are above the Community average, although this can be explained, it is true, from different angles, including the importance of higher-risk sectors of activity in those countries.