Only after this analysis is completed will Canada be in a position to make a decision as to whether to become a party to the optional protocol. b) Owing to the extensive consultations required and the complexities of the issues raised by the implementation of the optional protocol, no timeline has been developed for Canada to become a party to the optional protocol. c) The government is committed to actively considering whether Canada should become a party to the instrument.

This could develop into a European Centre for Energy Networks, with powers to collect, analyse and publish relevant information, as well as to implement schemes approved by the relevant regulatory institutions.

The fragmentation of regulation across the 27 Member States, including the enforcement of remedies, threatens to become a serious obstacle to the development of the Single Market and to hinder the emergence of pan-European services.

TAKES NOTE of the communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament "2003 Environment Policy Review" (EPR), in the light of the new political context of the EU environmental policy since the adoption of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) in 2001, and CONSIDERS that the EPR could become a key instrument for the monitoring and the evaluation of the implementation of the 6th Environment Action Programme (EAP) and should also contribute to the Spring European Council and the SDS review, i.a. by providing a good basis for the different Council formations in reviewing the implementation of sustainable deve ...[+++]lopment targets;

Thus, failing to implement the health care guarantee is likely to move the Canadian health care system in the direction of introducing a second private tier of services available only to those who can afford to pay for them out-of-pocket or through supplementary private health care insurance.

The referee must also enable the game to flow smoothly by developing and maintaining the infrastructure necessary for private investment, providing a framework for cooperation between the private and public sectors and, above all, breaking down the barriers between the two, encouraging the delicate but crucial links between research and innovation and between innovation and putting a useable product on the market, pursuing fiscal policies that are consistent with this model and preparing the workforce, because in the new economy labour too must be able to reinvent itself and embrace lifelong learning.