Examples of using Technological disasters in English and their translations into Danish
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The situation is different with regard to technological disasters, for example.
It is also proposed that the scope of the European Solidarity Fund be extended to cover the consequences of public health crises,terrorist attacks and technological disasters.
This proposal particularly aimed to extend the scope of the instrument in order to cover industrial and technological disasters, public health emergencies and acts of terror and to reduce the thresholds used to classify a disaster as major.
We have deliberately refrained from making any reference to natural,environmental, or technological disasters.
The individual actions undertaken by the Community to implement the programme contribute to the protection of persons, environment andproperty in the event of natural and technological disasters, and a greater awareness of the interrelationship between human activities and nature, which in the future may make it possible to prevent many disasters, including floods;
Improve the protection of persons, environment andproperty in the event of natural and technological disasters.
It has become more andmore plain that industrial and technological disasters and the potential crises resulting from terrorist acts or- something that is of particular importance to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety- a public health crisis, make it necessary that we should be in a position to respond and help by means of solidarity and financial resources.
This would permit a faster response to crisis situations resulting from natural disasters as well as those caused by industrial or technological disasters, or by terrorist acts.
I believe that we need to lower the thresholds for the eligibility of actions,as Mr Berend quite rightly proposes, and extend the scope to include technological disasters, such as major shipwrecks or'flu epidemics, so that we can supply the populace with vaccines and address the matter adequately.
With a view to combating forest fires, the Council of Ministers decided on 8 July 1991 that greater mutual assistance should be provided by Member States in the event of natural or technological disasters.
Community cooperation in civil protection matters is intendedto increase safety levels, as regards both natural and technological disasters affecting people, the environment and property.
It would also like to see a special EU Solidarity Fund, with resources of up to EUR 1 billion per year,established to cater for costs generated by major natural, environmental or technological disasters.
However, it is curious how emergencies and the need for Community solidarity against natural,industrial or technological disasters include solidarity for terrorist actions.
The purpose of this agreement, which was adopted in March 1987 by the Council of Europe,is to promote closercooperation among Member States on preventing andresponding to natural and technological disasters.
I am sure that these improvements will help to save more human lives in future andto reduce the damage caused by natural and technological disasters or by nuclear and ecological disasters. .
The objectives of the civil protection action programme are to help to ensure better protection for people, the environment andproperty in the event of natural or technological disasters across the Community.
This programme is intended to support and supplement Member States' efforts at national, regional and local levels for the protection of persons, property and in so doing environment,in the event of natural and technological disasters, without prejudice to the internal division of competence in Member States.
I do not believe, therefore, that it is inconsistent to agree to the priority requested by the Council since the option for the Commission to intervene in other similar cases- ecological,environmental or technological disasters- would still be available in a very small number of specific cases.
Throughout our debates, we have listed what these various natural disasters might have consisted of: fires, cyclones, tidal waves, earthquakes, floods, health crises, terrorist attacks, droughts, shortages of drinking water,industrial and technological disasters, agricultural disasters and undoubtedly many more.
Pursuant to the Council resolution of 8 July 1991 on improving mutual aid between Member States in the event of natural or technological disaster,(') the Commission has established a procedure for providing effective mutual aid between the Member States.