4a. When assessing the technical and financial capabilities of an applicant for a licence, special attention shall be paid to all ecologically sensitive marine and coastal environments, in particular ecosystems which play an important role in mitigation and adaptation to climate change, such as salt marshes and sea grass beds; and marine protected areas, such as special areas of conservation pursuant to the Habitats Directive, special protection areas pursuant to the Birds Directive, and marine protected areas as agreed by the Union or Member States concerned within the framework of any international or regional agreements to which they ...[+++] are party.

'fishing protected area' means a geographically defined sea area in which all or certain fishing activities are temporarily or permanently banned or restricted in order to improve the exploitation and conservation of living aquatic resources or the protection of marine ecosystems; [Am. 81]

The Regulation would have to be amended in order to enable the entire Kaliningrad district to be considered as one single border area, since according to the Regulation a local border area is defined as a 30-km zone which may exceptionally extend to up to 50 km. Such an amendment would prevent the artificial fragmentation of a region of about one million inhabitants in total into three districts (one covered by a local border traffic agreement with Poland, one by an agreement with Lithuania and one without any agr ...[+++]eement at all as it lies outside the border area) and enable all inhabitants, under the conditions laid out in the Regulation, to enjoy facilitations for local border traffic.

However, subject to the limits per Member State laid down in paragraph 1, Member States may distribute the areas indicated in that paragraph among the production zones as defined in Annex X, or, for the Member States of the Community as constituted on 30 April 2004, if necessary, the production regions of the regionalisation plan, according to the extent of the production of durum wheat during the period 1993 to 1997.

However, subject to the limits per Member State laid down in paragraph 1, Member States may distribute the areas indicated in that paragraph among the production zones as defined in Annex X, or, if necessary, the production regions of the regionalisation plan, according to the extent of the production of durum wheat during the period 1993 to 1997.

trade within the geographical area; such geographical areas shall be defined by analogy with the concept of “health intervention areas” in the existing Animal Disease Notification System (ADNS); the Commission is required to state to the European Parliament the reasons for any exceptions it might make.