Traduction de «Federal Government Self-Assessment Working Group » (Anglais → Français) :

17. Recalls that the Court of Justice has, at Parliament's suggestion, set up a working group to study the feasibility of requiring, inter alia, a declaration of its Members' financial interests; considers that this question could form a useful part of the ECA's current self-assessment and peer review process.

Recognizing that palliative and end-of-life care is an issue that has implications beyond the health sector, the federal government has been working through an interdepartmental working group to ensure that its programs and policies in the area of palliative and end-of-life care are developed and implemented in the context of a broader strategy.

2. Notes that the IASCF is a private self-regulatory body which has been given the role of lawmaker for the EU by Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002; underlines that the IASCF/IASB lack transparency, legitimacy, accountability and are not under the control of any democratically elected parliament or government, without the EU institutions having established the accompanying procedures and practices of consultation and democratic decision-making that are usual in its own legislative procedures; welcomes, however, that the IASCF/IASB have sought to improve these deficiencies, for example through twice-yearly meetings at which the IASCF reviews ...[+++] the IASB's work, through impact assessments for new standards, through the introduction of formalised feedback statements for comments received in public consultations, etc.;

2. Notes that the IASCF is a private self-regulatory body which has been given the role of lawmaker in the European Union by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002; acknowledges some concerns about the fact that the IASCF/IASB may lack transparency and accountability as a consequence of not being under the control of any democratically elected government, the EU institutions not having established the accompanying procedures and practices as regards consultation and democratic decision-making that are usual in their own legislative procedures; welcomes, however, the fact that the IASCF/IASB have sought to improve those deficiencies, th ...[+++]rough, inter alia, biannual meetings at which the IASCF reviews the IASB's work, impact assessments for new standards and the introduction of formalised feedback statements for comments received in public consultations;

A working group from a number of federal government departments is working together and engaging the provinces to develop a federal fresh water research agenda that would be linked to the federal water framework.

The federal government should be working to ensure that science, and science alone, is the basis on which countries assess the acceptability of genetically modified organisms and that any labelling requirements associated with these products do not constitute a non-tariff barrier to trade.