Examples of using Ultra-peripheral in English and their translations into Finnish
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The first concerns the ultra-peripheral regions.
We are not ultra-peripheral but being an island makes all the difference.
Nothing has been said about fishmeal, the ultra-peripheral regions or illegal fishing.
Is exactly the level of development of my own region, the Azores,one of the regions defined in the Treaties as ultra-peripheral.
Mr President, the ultra-peripheral regions suffer from the handicap of remoteness.
In any case,small islands with a population of less than 100 000 should be treated as ultra-peripheral regions.
Mr President, I guess I come from one of those ultra-peripheral regions, in this case called Finland.
The ultra-peripheral regions of the European Union were defined in the Treaty on the European Union in the Declaration No. 26 appended thereto.
All I can tell you is that what I said also applies to the ultra-peripheral regions, as these are all islands of course.
Mr President, I too find that in this report the rapporteur really has displayed a very strong commitment to the development of the ultra-peripheral regions.
This has been proved precisely by the ultra-peripheral regions which the report presents as a model for isolated mountain regions.
In conclusion, Mr Dantin stated that there needs to be greater cooperation of ACP countries with the ultra-peripheral regions of the EU.
I am waiting for the Commission' s report on the ultra-peripheral regions, which the Council decided should be drawn up by December 1999.
These ultra-peripheral regions face the problem of a lag in their economic and social development and, in particular, face problems due to their very remoteness.
This is because the special legal status of the ultra-peripheral regions is due to their very remoteness from the continent of Europe.
Questions have been left aside that would illustrate the desire for cohesion, and this is what has happened with the status of the ultra-peripheral regions.
There is a clause in the Treaty for ultra-peripheral regions that provides for flexibility in adopting EU policies for special needs.
In addition to these general factors, there is another which I consider tobe of crucial importance, namely the absence of practical recognition for the ultra-peripheral regions.
Rural communities, coastal areas and ultra-peripheral regions also face particular challenges in terms of economic development, social exclusion and depopulation.
With regard to Community production, production quotas must be maintained at a level which permits the protection,even the development, of the ultra-peripheral production zones.
However, we must be careful to distinguish island regions from ultra-peripheral islands and regions, as indeed the Treaty revised in Amsterdam very properly does.
The French authorities justified the application with the special situation of La Réunion which is the most distant andat the same time the most populated ultra-peripheral region of the Union.
So it is encouraging that the Cohesion Fund has at last reached the ultra-peripheral regions, for example, as a result of this House's repeated efforts to call attention to their needs.
Mr President, Commissioner, first of all I should like to congratulate the author of this report, Mr Fernández Martín,who has drafted a magnificent report on the ultra-peripheral regions.
According to that Declaration, the ultra-peripheral regions of the European Union are the French overseas departments, the autonomous Portuguese regions of Madeira and the Azores and the Spanish Canary Islands.
The Council recognizes the importance of bananas, both in terms of exports and employment, for those Caribbean and, indeed,all ACP countries, and for the ultra-peripheral areas of the Union.
The banana sector is one of the most important economic resources of the ultra-peripheral regions of the EU. They cannot do without it, not just for economic reasons, but also for employment reasons.
However, there are other aspects for which there is no such provision. In his speech Mr Desama already mentioned one example,namely the special system for the ultra-peripheral regions.
Furthermore, representatives from the ultra-peripheral regions22 and island regions23 hope that these will be included among the lagging regions, even where their income exceeds the threshold level for eligibility.
On that score, it has indeed been the European regions which have suffered most of all, especially mountain regions and frontier regions, andhere we are talking in particular about ultra-peripheral regions.