1. In crisis situations, the assisting Member State shall submit any requests for reimbursement of the costs of any support provided to an unrepresented citizen to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the unrepresented citizen's Member State of nationality.

(Return tabled) Question No. 1306 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to the crisis in Syria: (a) what criteria does the government use to determine (i) whether to intervene, (ii) when to intervene, (iii) the nature and scope of any intervention; (b) who makes the determination in (a) and how; (c) what sources does the government rely upon in determining (a); (d) what legal obligations are considered with respect to (a) and in what ways does the Responsibility to Protect doctrine factor into decision making under (a); (e) in what ways has the government evaluated its obligations under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine with respect to ...[+++] Syria; (f) when were such evaluations done, by whom, and with what outcome; (g) have the criteria by which the government determines its official policy towards the crisis in Syria changed since 2012; (h) when the Minister of Foreign Affairs publicly expressed his support for an indictment of Bashar al-Assad by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2012, was this the position of the government and does it remain the position of the government that al-Assad ought to be indicted by the ICC; (j) with respect to Canada’s decision not to sign on to the request of 57 countries made in January, 2013, to ask the Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC, did Canada support this request; (k) with respect to (j), when, why, how, and by whom were the determinations made in this regard, and when was Canada approached to join in this endeavor and by what means; (l) what criteria were applied in determining whether to support this effort; (m) are there any specific policies or directives within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade that guide decision-making with regard to Canadian intervention in situations of humanitarian crisis; (n) was the decision not to sign the Swiss-led letter asking the United Nations Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC made by the Minister of Fore ...

With that, joining us today, from Infrastructure Canada, we have Shirley Anne Scharf, director general, and Keith Grady, senior adviser on environment review; from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, John Smith and Steve Burgess; and from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ginny Flood and Gilles Belzile.

Level 2: Technical implementing measures to render the level 1 principles operational, can be adopted, adapted and updated by the Commission after having been submitted to the European Securities Committee (ESC) – a committee composed mainly of members of Ministries of Finance - and the European Parliament for their opinion.

Representatives from various Member States will present the experiences of introducing accrual accounting in their administrations: Czech Republic (Zdanak Safranek Ministry of Finance), France (Lionel Vareille, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry), and Spain ( Ministry of Economy and Finance ).

The Working Group on Euro-Mediterranean industrial co-operation (which includes representatives from industry ministries and other business development agencies in the EU Member States and the Mediterranean Partners, as well as private sector representatives) is already the main policy tool in helping the Mediterranean Partners prepare for the Free Trade Area, acting as a catalyst and a facilitator of the process.