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(Return tabled) Question No. 20 Mr. Alex Atamanenko: With regard to the horse slaughter industry in Canada: (a) what was the reason for the temporary halt, initiated by European Union (EU) officials, to horse meat imports from Canada on October 12, 2012; (b) has Canada participated in talks with EU officials regarding the safety of horse meat from Canada since that time, (i) if so, what topics were discussed, (ii) what conclusions were reached; (c) what restrictions effective in 2013 will be imposed upon the Canadian horse meat industry by the EU, (i) what is the anticipated impact of these restrictions on the frequency and type of drug residue testing on horse meat in Canada as well as on the data required on Equine ...[+++]Information Documents (EIDs), (ii) will the restrictions on prohibited/non-permitted drugs be further tightened; (d) is there any oversight by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on transport drivers and horse meat dealers listed on EIDs as current owners to check for a history of violations of the United States Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Transport, or CFIA transport regulations, (i) does the CFIA enhance its scrutiny of such violators or conduct follow-up investigations on those who have been flagged for violations, (ii) is this information shared with any other inter-connected government agency either in Canada or in the United States; (e) how often do CFIA inspectors do a visual inspection of the transports that arrive at the slaughter plants to ensure that the horses have been transported safely; (f) how many transport violations concerning horse slaughter transportation have been issued to transport drivers within the last five years, (i) how many warnings of violations have been issued, (ii) if the warnings have been ignored, how does the CFIA restrict or prohibit those transport drivers from conducting business in Canada; (g) how often does the CFIA conduct inspections of feedlots and how many warnings or violations were ...

67. Stresses that the key elements of the revision of Council Directive 2004/67/EC should contain mandatory and effective national and EU emergency action plans, which among other things define a common declaration of an emergency situation, allocation of available supplies and infrastructure capacity among the affected States, coordinated dispatching, activation of emergency measures in unaffected or less affected States in order to increase the amount of gas available to the affected markets using all means possible, including, among others, interruptible contracts, fuel switching, storage withdrawal and supply flexibilities for exampl ...[+++]e; considers that it is essential to improve the functioning of the market through transparency and increase the availability of gas in the market; calls on the European Union and its Member States to develop gas storage with fast-release capacity;

67. Stresses that the key elements of the revision of Council Directive 2004/67/EC should contain mandatory and effective national and EU emergency action plans, which among other things define a common declaration of an emergency situation, allocation of available supplies and infrastructure capacity among the affected States, coordinated dispatching, activation of emergency measures in unaffected or less affected States in order to increase the amount of gas available to the affected markets using all means possible, including, among others, interruptible contracts, fuel switching, storage withdrawal and supply flexibilities for exampl ...[+++]e; considers that it is essential to improve the functioning of the market through transparency and increase the availability of gas in the market; calls on the European Union and its Member States to develop gas storage with fast-release capacity;

8. Welcomes the recognition at Montreal not only that there needs to be a new commitment period for Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, but that there should be no gap between the first and second commitment periods; believes that this should convey a sense of urgency for the new talks, since they must be concluded in sufficient time to complete the ratification process; recalls its request in this context, in its abovementioned resolution of 16 November 2005, that there should be a time limit – the end of 2008 – for reaching agreement on future climate commitments;

5. The future adequacy of pensions in some Member States also increasingly depends on the ability to earn sufficient supplementary pension rights, but this is made difficult for people who change jobs or interrupt their careers by conditions for the acquisition, preservation and transfer of occupational pension rights which may also represent major obstacles to the mobility of workers; the Commission has addressed a consultation document on this matter to the social partners;

The meeting was attended by representatives of the IMF, the World Bank, the EIB, the EBRD, the Paris Club, the OECD and the IEA. 2. Since their last meeting at Ministerial level on July 4, the international economic environment within which the countries of central and eastern Europe are pursuing their policies of economic stabilisation, structural adjustment and the transition to market economies has changed in the following respects: - a deterioration in the terms of trade of the central and eastern European countries resulting from the ongoing necessary shift to hard currency accounting and payments in intra-Comecon trade; - uncerta ...[+++]inty concerning the supply of oil and gas from the Soviet Union, both with respect to deliveries and price; - the impact of the crisis in the Gulf, notably the increase of oil prices, the interruption of supplies and the loss of income from trade, service contracts and workers' remittances.