Traduction de «directrice du service de l'information » (Français → Anglais) :

Left to right: Lynn Brodie, Director General of Information and Document Resource Service; Catherine MacLeod, Assistant Parliamentary Librarian and person responsible for the Parliamentary Information and Research Service; Sonia L’Heureux, Parliamentary Librarian; Lynn Potter, Director General of Corporate Services; Jean-Denis Fréchette, Parliamentary Budget Officer; and Ted Buglas, Executive Director, Integrated Client Outrea ...[+++]ch and Digital Access.

(Return tabled) Question No. 4 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to international treaties and conventions dealing in whole or in part with human rights and with Canada’s international obligations in this regard: (a) does the government have any formal or informal procedures for regular review of those international human rights treaties that Canada has not yet signed, ratified, or otherwise accepted; (b) does the government have any formal or informal guidelines according to which it determines whether the specific obligations contained in a treaty or other international undertaking conflicts with the Constitution Act, 1867, and if so whe ...[+++]re can these guidelines be accessed; (c) do the guidelines referred to in (b) specify the standard according to which the government determines if any obligation contained in a treaty or other international undertaking violates any section of the Constitution Act, 1867; (d) has the government engaged in any review of its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD); (e) does the government have any formal or informal guidelines according to which it determines whether the specific obligations contained in a treaty or other international undertaking require implementing legislation in order for Canada to be able to ratify or otherwise accept it, and if so where can these guidelines be accessed; (f) does the government have a position as to whether international agreements that establish a complaints mechanism or communications procedure for enforcement of the rights and obligations contained therein are necessarily unconstitutional; (g) does the government have a policy as to whether Canada will accept such agreements referred to in (f); (h) does the government undergo review of proposed international human rights agreements that would establish such a mechanism or procedure referred to in (f) on a case by case basis, (i) who is involved in this review, (ii) are the provinces and other inte ...

84. Stresses that high priority must be given to full implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders; calls on the Council to take initiatives to protect human rights defenders; calls on the Commission and on the Member States to organise training of their staff in delegations, embassies and consulates on the application of those guidelines; asks the Commission to consider making funds available to cover the expenses of such training; welcomes the fact that a handbook has been drawn up by the EU Dutch Presidency for the implementation of the guidelines; regrets, however, that Parliament has been denied accurate information concerning its cont ...[+++]ent; calls on the Council and the Commission to raise the situation of human rights defenders systematically in all political dialogues; calls on the Commission to organise, on the level of its Delegations, information seminars on the guidelines with all relevant local NGOs; once again calls on the Council to inform Parliament about the implementation of those guidelines on the ground and to involve it fully in the process of evaluating them;

The European Union must now accept the challenge and proceed in a similar fashion by proposing guidelines for the policy on employment and social inclusion.

- 2 - III. ACTION TAKEN Following these guidelines the Commission Services presented the question to the Advisory Committee for the control and reduction of pollution caused by the discharge at sea of hydrocarbons and other harmful substances which gave a positive opinion on the following scheme: A. Composition of the Task Force The Task Force will be composed essentially of governmental experts.

Using the indicative programmes as guidelines, Commission departments conducted a number of "identification missions" to the CIS countries and Georgia in June, July and September with the aim of drafting a series of action programmes in cooperation with interlocutors from the beneficiary states.