notes with satisfaction that the Republic of Moldova recently completed the process of establishing the legal and institutional framework for regional development, along the lines of the system in place in the EU Member States; welcomes the establishment of the development regions, functional territorial units which form a framework for the planning, assessment and implementation of regional development policy under the EU's nomenclature of territorial units for statistics, NUTS; applauds the creation of the national council for regional development coordination and the national fund for regional development which ...[+++]receive 1 % of the State budget each year (approximately EUR 8 million in 2010); highlights the fact that money is distributed by the fund on the basis of a transparent and sustainable mechanism for financing regional development;

Question No. 63 Mr. John Cummins: With regard to the expansion of the Roberts Bank Port Facility to include a third berth and a second terminal as per the Tsawwassen Final Agreement and related Side-Agreements, the Memorandum of Agreement between the Tsawwassen Band and the Vancouver Port Authority, and the related Settlement Agreement between the Tsawwassen Band, Canada, British Columbia (B.C.), Vancouver Port Authority, B.C. Ferry Services, B.C. Rail Ltd and B.C. Transportation and Financing Authority: (a) how many acres (or hectares) of farm land will be used for Roberts Bank port and rail related developments now underway or under study; (b) with the completion of the Roberts Bank port expansion, including both the third berth and seco ...[+++]nd terminal, what plans, if any, are there to use the Brunswick Point farmlands; (c) is the affected Roberts Bank farmland presently protected by the B.C. Agricultural Land Reserve designation; (d) does the Tsawwassen Final Agreement address the issue of farmland protection and if so, how; (e) will the farmland continue to be protected by the Agricultural Land Reserve designation following ratification of the Tsawwassen Final Agreement and, if not, why; (f) did the Vancouver Port Authority undertake to work jointly with the Tsawwassen Band to ensure the removal of the Agricultural Land Reserve designation from the farmland and, if so, why and what alternate measures did it put in place to protect farmland adjacent to the Roberts Bank port, rail and highway expansion; (g) did the Vancouver Port Authority agree to jointly develop with the Tsawwassen Band a container handling facility on the farmland protected by the B.C. Agricultural Land Reserve designation and, if so, why did the Vancouver Port Authority enter into such an agreement rather than develop container handling facilities further inland in a less environmentally sensitive area; (h) did the Vancouver Port Authority agree that the land would be leased at lease rates ...

2. Calls on the Council and the Commission, in the context of the European Security and Defence Policy and the so-called Petersburg tasks and after having received an explicit mandate from the UN Security Council, to restore, in line with Chapter VII of the UN Charter and the ‘responsibility to protect’ principle and in cooperation with the United Nations and the African Union, safe humanitarian corridors allowing humanitarian organisations to access all the refugees and displaced persons in Darfur and the areas bordering Chad and the ...[+++] Central African Republic so that they can receive vital humanitarian aid;

With regard to the organisation in question, Merlin, a reputable charitable organisation based in the United Kingdom with proper credentials and good standing in the relief and development field, the Commission would like to submit to the honourable Member that it received € 140.000 Community funding in 2003 on budgetary line BGUE-B2003-B75200B00-C8- AIDCO/BRU for one project “support to ex-prisoners and tuberculosis patients in Dzerzhinsk” which has been awarded in line with existing rules of procedures clearly describing the eligibl ...[+++]e activities.

In accordance with information received from the United Kingdom, the development of Rhizomania tolerant varieties is continuing; a second high yielding Rhizomania tolerant variety is in national trials with a view to listing in the United Kingdom recommended list; several other promising lines are in the first and second year of trials.

Did your committee receive any assurance that percentages of 12, 15 and 18 within those time lines are the same conditions agreed to by the negotiators for Canada and the United States?