Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 requires the managing authority to establish a system to record and store, in computerised form, data on each operation necessary for monitoring, evaluation, financial management, verification and audit, including data on individual participants.

Perhaps it has finally become clear that, with respect to fisheries as well as many other areas, the jurisdiction granted to the federal government under the constitutional document of 1867 should have been granted to a more local authority instead, an authority that could properly manage fisheries within that region.

Question No. 446 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to the current pandemic of new influenza A (H1N1): (a) what is the key leadership shown by the organizational reporting chart, from the two lead ministries, the Public Health Agency of Canada and Public Safety Canada, through to the deputy ministers; (b) what is the decision-making process to determine which of the two ministries leads on issues; (c) what, if any, funding requests have been made by government departments for pandemic planning since the beginning of the pandemic in Canada; (d) what, if any, additional funding is required to ensure all government departments have tested their H1N1 plans and rolled them out to the ...[+++]ir employees; (e) what, if any, specific agreements have been signed with the provinces and territories, and which, if any, agreements still need to be signed; (f) what are the government’s identified critical services, what is the decision-making process to reduce services if required, and who has responsibility for these decisions; (g) how will the government acquire and distribute medical countermeasures if required; (h) what guidance is being provided to foreign missions, including consulates, embassies, high commissions and trade offices, and what is the decision-making process to reduce services, or repatriate staff; (i) what guidance is being provided to the Canadian Forces, including the army, the air force and the navy, and what recommendations are being made for military personnel; (j) with regard to recommendations being made to the Canadian Forces and military personnel concerning vaccinations, what processes are in place to (i) re-evaluate policies as required, (ii) ensure legal compliance and respect ethical considerations, (iii) ensure protection of our troops in Afghanistan; (k) on what date was the pandemic vaccine ordered, and what, if any, effect did having only one supplier, or the decision to use adjuvant, had on the delivery date for the H1N1 vaccine; (l) what, i ...

Both NATO and Afghan authorities seem to be quite forthright about making these kinds of numbers public. If year-end summaries present a downward trend in the country generally and in Kandahar in particular, that should be an encouraging sign for Canadians.

* the managing authority, which is responsible for "the correctness of operations., particularly by implementing internal controls in keeping with the principles of sound financial management" and acting in response to any observations or requests for corrective measures to the management, monitoring and control system required by the Commission, the compatibility of operations with the Community policies and the preparation of the data or reports which the Commission requires to monitor a programme (Article 34(1));

The Council heard a report from High Representative Solana on the question of the envisaged take-over by the EU of the international military presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, following initial consultations on this issue, as mandated by the European Council in Copenhagen, with the BiH authorities, the High Representative for BiH/EU Special Representative, Paddy Ashdown, NATO and other international players.