Traducción de «Medio rural » (Español → Inglés) :

10. Calls, in this regard, for further efforts to be made to equip all rural areas with the most up-to-date IT infrastructure, above all adequate broadband access, and for action to be taken to facilitate access to information and communication technologies and foster equal opportunities with regard to such access and appropriate training on how to use it; points out that poor levels of broadband access hinders the growth of small businesses in many rural areas across the EU.; therefore urges the Commission and the Member States to abide by their commitment to improve broadband provision in rural areas as a way to boost competitiveness; ...[+++]

Rural development policy for the next financial period (2007-2013) will focus on the three axes of measures laid down in the new rural development Regulation: improving competitiveness for farming and forestry, improving the environment and countryside and improving the quality of life and diversification of the rural economy. A fourth axis based on experience with the Leader programme introduces opportunities for bottom-up approaches to rural development at local level.

improving the environment and the countryside by supporting land management.

affected by specific handicaps, and where land management should be continued in order to conserve or improve the environment, maintain the countryside and preserve the tourist potential of the area or in order to protect the coastline.

6. Draws attention to the importance of measures to promote structural improvements in rural areas in the new Member States as there are still significant differences in agricultural structures between the future and current members; stresses the particular importance of local actors for the sustainable development of rural areas; calls on the Commission, therefore, to grant special support for local networks and bottom-up projects in rural areas, within the meaning of the Leader Community programme, in the new Member States both before and after accession; reiterates its call for a bottom-up approach in the pre-accession programme fo ...[+++]r the remaining accession countries;

79. Further urges all parties concerned to recognise that nature protection is not achievable solely through the identification and protection of designated areas, but must also be based on general policies which stimulate sustainable economic activity both in the countryside and in urban areas (including recreational pursuits), encourage environmentally friendly agriculture and forestry and the development of the urban and industrial environments, integrate environmental considerations into the broad range of public policy wherever appropriate, most obviously in relation to transport and energy, reduce overall levels of air- and water-based pollution, preserve soil quality and other natural resources, and discourage forms of economic activ ...[+++]ity which lead to the destruction of valuable habitats (such as the draining of wetlands); to this end seek ways to avoid the reproduction of problems characteristic of the EU 15, problems associated with intensive farming, monoculture, displacement of agricultural labour, and a failure to take into account the general and economic value of biodiversity; such ways to include, inter alia, the broad exploitation of possibilities to counter such tendencies (and to encourage, for example, the survival of rural communities, smallholdings, traditional and ecologically friendly methods of field division - such as hedges, water channels and dry stone walls - rare breeds of domestic animal, and ecological corridors) offered by existing budgetary measures such as the EAGGF and the Community Instrument LEADER;