Traduction de «Programme Possibilités d'affectation » (Français → Anglais) :

– Member States should examine in the context of the current programming period of structural funds 2007-2013 all opportunities to direct remaining resources towards the six priority lines defined in this communication and in projects aimed at increasing the competitiveness of SMEs in particular.

(Return tabled) Question No. 159 Mr. Sean Casey: With respect to the considered cuts to Environment Canada: (a) which specific departments and programs are affected, and what was the process taken to determine whether or not to make cuts to a specific department and program, (i) what, if any, Environment Canada Research Scientists were consulted regarding the considered cuts, (ii) what scientists outside of Environment Canada were consulted, (iii) for each department and program specified in (a), what is the number of current full-time, part-time, and contract scientific positions, (iv) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract sc ...[+++]ientists who have been given “workforce adjustment” letters, (v) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who are going to be moved out of their current “job function”, (vi) what, if any, consideration has been given to shutting-down the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN), and, if so, has the United States been consulted, as Canada has commitments under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, (vii) specify all programs run by a single scientist who has been given a “workforce adjustment” letter, and for each program identified, what, if any, concern was expressed regarding the ability of the program to continue, (viii) the process that will be taken to place scientists in appropriate research areas, (ix) what, if any, consideration has been given to the fact that many scientists are highly trained in very specialized fields, and that an appropriate replacement position may not be possible; (b) specify all national and international environmental commitments to which Canada is subject, including, but not limited to the Global Climate Observing System, the World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, which are mandated by the Montreal Protocol to occur at least every four years, and hosting the World Ozone and UV Data Centre, (i) wha ...

Under the new legislative framework, Member States have the possibility to delegate to cities, funds addressing urban issues within the new programmes.

When the Auditor General examined the program implementation and accountability under this framework, she found significant weaknesses in a number of key areas: ambiguity in terms of the department's roles and responsibilities; inequities in how the funds are allocated; a lack of clearly defined, expected results; limited program and performance information; and discrepancies in the information provided to Treasury Board.

It is, in fact, important to improve the financial mechanisms set up by Decision 90/424/EEC; - carry out, before the end of the year, a full review of the priorities in funding the programmes to combat diseases in the veterinary sector; - consider the long-term funding of expenditure in the veterinary field; - if the re-examination of the accounts at the beginning of 1994 or the review of combat programmes make it possible to release any additional finance, apply those resources, in compliance with the rules revised in accordance w ...[+++]ith the first indent, as a priority to combating rabies, African swine fever, IHN, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and bovine tuberculosis.

Sub-programme 5 - Agricultural and Rural Development This sub-programme accounts for a total cost of 204.000 ECU, of which 161.000 will be spend on operations to improve the quality, innovation, promotion and commercialisation of agricultural products, so as to limit the population exodus from the rural interior by providing a wider range of income possibilities.