Traduction de «Centre Comparative Islamic Studies » (Anglais → Français) :

16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to carry out a study into the possibilities of supporting academic research centres for Islamic studies, which can meet the need for spiritual leaders trained in a European context;

Like the increasing number of centres that are being set up in order to conceal our differences, this one, in its five years of existence, has done nothing to justify the millions of euros that are pumped into it each year. If you compare the amount of money which it is allocated with that available to national bodies, one would expect to see in-depth studies leading, as stipulated in the definition of its aims in Article 2, to the provision of objective, reliable and comparable ...[+++] information concerning drugs and drug addiction.

20. Advises the Council, in support of its policy, to ask the Commission for a comparative study of the position of Islam and Muslim organizations in the various Member States, which should consider, inter alia: the official status of Islam, existing arrangements for compliance with religious obligations (religious holidays, ritual slaughter, funeral ceremonies), the construction of religious buildings, and educational and cultural facilities, and to disseminate the study widely in the EU;

I will read these questions, regarding which I hope to get an answer soon. The first one is: ``Can the Minister of Human Resources Development indicate what recommendations were made, by the committee analysing the restructuring of service points in Quebec, on the advisability of locating the regional Canada Human Resources Centre in Shawinigan or in Trois-Rivières?'' (1310) Here is the second, No. 21 in the Order Paper of March 12, 1996: ``Can the Minister of Human Resources Development tell me whether representations or interventions were made by officers, employees or other persons from the Privy Council or the Office of the Prime Min ...[+++]ister to officers, employees or officials from Human Resources Development Canada, in order to ensure that the regional Canada Human Resources Centre would be located in a municipality in the constituency of Saint-Maurice rather than in Trois-Rivières?'' Question No. 22: ``Can the Minister of Human Resources Development tell me whether, as part of its restructuring of service points in Quebec, Human Resources Development Canada carried out comparative studies on the advisability of locating the regional Canada Human Resources Centre in Shawinigan or in Trois-Rivières and, if so, what where the findings of those studies?'' And fourth and last, Question No. 23: ``Can the Minister of Public Works and the Minister of Human Resources Development tell me the rent and rent-related costs of the Human Resources Development Canada premises in the Bourg-du-Fleuve building on rue des Forges in Trois-Rivières, as compared with the anticipated costs of the Department's moving to, arranging, and settling into new premises to be located in the Shawinigan area according to the government's plan?'' According to what I have been told, the government will be answering these questions in the next few days.

ASIA - Identifying ways of reducing the impact of natural disasters at low cost A grant of ECU 36 700 will finance the carrying-out of a comparative feasibility study by the Oxford Centre for Disaster Studies (UK) with a view to establishing the efficiency and interchangeability of low-cost prevention technologies in India and the Philippines.

However, actions at Community level to improve the flow of consumer information have taken the following forms: - descriptive information about goods and services: this information often appears in the form of labelling and some of the Directives mentioned earlier contain provisions relating to the requirements for such information; - prices surveys : the Commission sponsors comparative studies of prices of certain products as a means of detecting the extent of market segmentation, and to provide a basis for policy decisions; - comparative tests : many consumer associations undertake comparativ ...[+++]e tests and make the results available to their members: action has been taken . to provide financial assistance to the smaller associations to enable them to undertake such tests; . to stimulate the larger consumer organisations to publish the results of their tests on the basis of the Single Market rather than for each national market separately information and advice centres in trans-frontier regions : a network of 10 such centres has been established, based on existing organisations involved in consumer affairs, with the aim of providing specialist information and advice to consumers undertaking cross-frontier transactions; . the mass media : efforts are being made to improve the coverage of consumer issues, particularly at the Community level, by the mass media; . consumer education : the Commission has cooperated with organisations in Member-States in the development of didactic material, both for use in schools and for adult education.