Traducción de «Bono de primer orden » (Español → Inglés) :

Recognises soil degradation to be a major constraint in agricultural production, and calls for greater ambitions and efforts to improve soil and water management practices, particularly in light of climate change; welcomes the development of controlled traffic farming (CTF) technologies, which reduce soil damage caused by overworking of the land, and also welcomes recent efforts to integrate high-resolution remote sensing technologies into organic farming; encourages the Commission to quantify the environmental and production benefits of these new technologies and to ensure awareness, knowledge and technology transfer.

Other imperative reasons of public interest may be relied on only further to an opinion from the Commission.

Further, if a project must nevertheless be carried out – for imperative reasons of overriding public interest, including those of a social or economic nature – in spite of a negative assessment of the effects on the site and there are no alternative solutions, knowledge of those effects is an essential prerequisite for the weighing of those public interest reasons and the damage to the site in order to determine the nature of any compensatory measures.

Thus, irrigation and the supply of drinking water constitute an ‘overriding public interest’ which can, in principle, justify a project for the diversion of water in the absence of alternative solutions.

Irrigation and the supply of drinking water constitute overriding public interests which may, in principle, justify the diversion of a river

A number of senior figures have already agreed to take part to the debate, namely: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Frans Andriessen Raymond Barre Sir Samuel Brittan Henning Christophersen Etienne Davignon Jacques Delors Wim Kok Karl-Otto Pöhl Pierre Werner The Round Table will take place immediately after the first Council meeting of Economic and Finance Ministers under Italian Presidency.