Traduction de «Add advisory program results » (Anglais → Français) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 177 Mr. Peter Julian: With regard to nanotechnology: (a) what are the total federal funds spent and committed for expenditure, for each of the fiscal years from 2005-2006 through 2008-2009 inclusive, broken down by department and criterion; (b) who are the recipients of these funds; (c) to what purpose was funding for nanotechnology used by institutions and departments, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Natural Resources Canada, Industry Canada, and the National Research Council of Canada; (d) what were the amounts allocated to test health, safety, and environmental impacts of nanoproducts ...[+++]and nanomaterials; (e) what is the list of nanomaterials currently in the market; (f) which of these have been extensively tested to determine possible effects on human and environmental health and safety and, of those tested, which, if any, raised concern or required mitigation or prevention; (g) how many assessments on nanomaterial notification packages have been submitted to the New Substances Notification Program to date and (i) of these notification packages, have there been any nanomaterials rejected for entry into Canada, (ii) have there been any conditions of use placed based on assessment results and, if so, how many; (h) did the government ever request notifiers (companies or individuals) providing nanomaterial notification packages to submit additional toxicity data above and beyond what is requested in the schedules of the New Substances Notification Regulations and, if so, did this result in refusal of entry into the Canadian market or justify use of material with conditions; and (i) what information, notifications or advisories have been issued to ensure the safe discovery, production, manufacturing, use and disposal of nanomaterials and nano-enabled products, (i) when, (ii) by which departments?

The result is that they add a police officer and make partisan appointments to the advisory committees and take the vote away from the judiciary!

in consultation with the Scientific Advisory Committee, recommend to the Commission the priorities and objectives of the program for data collection and monitoring established in Article VII(i) of paragraph 1, of this Convention and assess and evaluate the results of that program;

- the decision of the Joint Committee to add the Committee for Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal data to the list of Protocol 37 is being prepared in order to allow for EEA/EFTA participation in the interests of the good functioning of the agreement; -the EEA Council notes the participation of EEA/EFTA in the committees established in framework of programmes in which they participate like MEDIA II, INFO 2000 and in the area of Education; -the EEA Council notes EEA/EFTA participation in the Advisory Committee on the In ...[+++]ternal market is being favourably considered; -the EEA Council also notes that EEA/EFTA participation as observers to the Commission's Advisory Committee to Cancer Prevention has been agreed; -noted the ongoing negotiations between the EEA/EFTA States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand of parallel Mutual Recognition Agreements on Conformity Assessment equivalent to those negotiated between the Community and those countries; the EEA Council welcomed the readiness of the EEA/EFTA States to begin parallel negotiations with those countries in Central and Eastern Europe with which the Community intends to conclude European Conformity Assessment Agreements and set up special administrative structures; while referring to the importance of the Commission's Action Plan for the Single Market underlined its general relevance to the EEA Agreement and appreciated the joint intention to cooperate on relevant projects resulting from the Action Plan; welcomed that in a spirit of constructive cooperation a solution to the salmon issue has been found in consultations between the Commission and Norway ; 5. The EEA Council noted the importance of the proposed European Parliament and Council directive on common rules for the internal market in natural gas for the supply and utilization of natural gas within the EEA.

As a result, private businesses very often have to spend time, money and energy on many things such as collecting information on the many government programs, providing the two levels of government with the required data, participating in the various advisory committees and subcommittees in charge of regulating the industry, preparing for the inspections carried out alternately by the federal government and the province, and complying with the requirem ...[+++]ents of both governments.