Traduction de «Secrétariat permanent des normes du COCG » (Français → Anglais) :

The Chair presented the Eight Report of the Sub-committee on Agenda and Procedure which read as follows: The Sub-committee on Agenda and Procedure of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts met on Tuesday, November 24, 1998 and agreed to recommend the following: THAT the Committee hold a meeting on Tuesday, December 8, 1998, at 3:30 p.m., with officials from the Secretariat of the Treasury Board, the Department of Finance and the Auditor General in relation to the Public Accounts of 1998 and Chapter 9 (Reporting Government Financial Results: the Importance of Complying with Objective Accounting Standards) of the April 1998 Report of th ...[+++]e Auditor General.

Mr. Colin Potts (Deputy Comptroller General, Comptrollership Branch, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat): Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee members, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Subcommittee on International Financial Reporting Guidelines and Standards for the Public Sector.

In its April 2004 report, The BSE Crisis – Lessons for the future, the Committee recommended to enhance the harmonization of sanitary and phytosanitary standards with Canada’s NAFTA partners and set up a permanent NAFTA agricultural secretariat with the mandate to use these standards and generate reports including recommendations for actions by NAFTA partners to regulate the trade flow when a sanitary or phytosanitary issue occurs.

To this end, the committee calls for the establishment of a new, permanent NAFTA agricultural secretariat, with the mandate to apply harmonized standards and recommend actions by NAFTA partners to regulate the trade flow when a sanitary or phytosanitary issue occurs.