25. Third, with respect to the ‘pooling of procurement’, such as in the A400M programme, highlights the potential benefits of joint procurement in terms of economies of scale, building a viable industrial base, interoperability, and subsequent possibilities of pooling and sharing in in-service support, maintenance and training; deplores the fact that these benefits are often lost due to differences in requirements and work-share agreements as in the case of the Eurofighter programme; in order to realise fully the potential savings, stresses the importance of maintaining a common configuration of jointly procured equipment through its entire life cycle in order ...[+++]to facilitate joint in-service support; invites the Member States also to consider the pooling of outsourced services;

These are not coincidences (1450) YWCA Canada recommends that the federal government financially support women's equality-seeking organizations through core funding; double Status of Women Canada's budget; create a full-time ministry for women's equality and create a women's equality act; enact pay-equity legislation; sustain the parliamentary Standing Committee on the Status of Women and implement its recommendations; instruct the Auditor General to conduct a full audit of the federal government's performance on women's equality on an appropriate cycle; and maintain a strong policy partnership with women's organizations.

The Coalition for Women's Equality believes that the federal government should strengthen its mechanism regarding the status of women by: enacting a status of women bill, to give force of legislation to the government's commitment to provide equality for all women; appointing a full-fledged minister with an in-depth knowledge of the status of women who would work with her colleagues in Cabinet and make sure that the issue of equality for all women in Canada is raised whenever a new policy comes up for discussion; creating a department of the status of women with adequate funding and led by a full-fledged deputy minister who would be responsible for making sure that the Act is enforced; providing adequate funding for an independent women' ...[+++]s movement; and finally, mandating the Auditor General to carry out at appropriate intervals a full assessment of the government's performance regarding women's equality.

2. Stresses that the Doha Round is a Development Round and stresses the importance of the ‘Aid for Trade’ package to help developing countries, especially the least developed among them, to build up supply-side capacity and trade-related infrastructure, together with technical assistance and capacity building;

For the acquisition of an asset, relevant or appropriate life-cycle costs would include the purchase price of the asset and other one-time costs directly related to its acquisition, such as the project office to manage the process.

Any additional responsibilities that were given to the navy to exercise would have to be accompanied by a full funding envelope that not only covers the acquisition of the vessels but also any additional personnel costs through the life cycle, and also any of the life-cycle maintenance costs for the vessel.