Traduction de «greatest common measure practice » (Anglais → Français) :

Several steps were taken last year toward developing a Master Security Plan that will centralize the planning, development and implementation of security measures for the Parliamentary Precinct: a joint Master Security Planning Office was maintained to coordinate activities; a Memorandum of Understanding related to information sharing was established with security partners; simulations were carried out to practice the coordinated response of multiple security partners to emergency scenarios; a policy and standards review was completed to e ...[+++]nsure the greatest possible integration of security standards and practices; and business requirements were defined, the design was completed and equipment was acquired for an interim vehicle screening facility.

(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both ver ...[+++]sions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

On a point of order, Madam Chair, with the greatest of respect, it is quite clear in the common practices of the House of Commons, and thereby extending out to any of the committees that are created as a matter of the Standing Orders from the House of Commons, that any reference to impugn the integrity of the chair of the House of Commons is simply beyond reproach.

With respect to Article 9, the delegations affirmed that, to the extent practicable, the Parties intend to ensure the greatest possible degree of coordination on proposed security measures to minimise the threat and mitigate the potentially adverse consequences of any new measures.

Only the practical implementation and efficient enforcement of existing rules as well as of future common measures will ensure the credibility of the rule of law in the area of freedom, security and justice as foreseen in the Treaty of Amsterdam.

ANNEX DRAFT CODE OF CONDUCT CONCERNING PUBLIC ACCESS TO COUNCIL AND COMMISSION DOCUMENTS The Council and the Commission, HAVING REGARD to the Declaration on the Right of Access to Information annexed to the Final Act of the Treaty on European Union, which emphasizes that transparency of the decision-making process strengthens the democratic nature of the Institutions and the public's confidence in the administration, HAVING REGARD to the conclusions wherein the European Councils in Birmingham and Edinburgh agreed on a number of principles to promote a Community closer to its citizens, HAVING REGARD to the conclusions of the European Council in Copenhagen, reaffirming the principle of giving citizens the ...[+++]greatest possible access to information and calling on the Council and the Commission to adopt at an early date the necessary measures for putting this principle into practice, CONSIDERING it desirable to establish by common agreement the principles which will govern access to Commission and Council documents, it being understood that it is for each of them to implement these principles by means of specific regulations, WHEREAS the said principles are without prejudice to the relevant provisions on access to files directly concerning persons with a specific interest in them, WHEREAS these principles will have to be implemented in full compliance with the provisions concerning classified information, WHEREAS this code of conduct is an additional element in their information and communication policy, HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: General principle The public will have the widest possible access to documents held by the Commission and the Council".