I am not familiar with accountability procedures and mechanisms for the implementation of federal-provincial agreements, but I think the time has come to think about better systems that enable the provinces to be more accountable as to the money they receive from the federal government for the implementation of section 23.

2004-2007 Annual Report of the Yukon Land Claims and Self-Government Agreements.—Sessional Paper No. 3/ 40-461.

2003-2004 Annual Report of the Yukon Land Claims and Self-Government Agreements.—Sessional Paper No. 2/ 40-336.

However, in order to maintain the platform for the exchange of experience and good practices on the implementation of this Directive among Member States, the Commission should set up an expert group, composed of experts from the Member States' central authorities responsible for the implementation of this Directive, which should be involved, inter alia, in the process of customising a module of the IMI system for cultural objects.

The European institutions have themselves spoken out on many occasions on subjects relating to Community cultural action and the challenges of cultural cooperation, in particular in Council Resolutions of 25 June 2002 on a new work plan on European cooperation in the field of culture and of 19 December 2002 implementing the work plan for European cooperation in the field of culture , resolutions of the European Parliament of 5 September 2001 on cultural cooperation in the European Union , of 28 February 2002 on the implementation of the Culture 2000 Programme , of 22 October 2002 on the importance and dynamism of the theatre and the perf ...[+++]orming arts in an enlarged Europe , and of 4 September 2003 on Cultural Industries , and the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 9 October 2003 on the extension of the Culture 2000 Programme.

There are also a number of legislative and regulatory changes that affect the northern economic environment; the implementation of the government's commitments to cumulative impact monitoring program, which is environmental monitoring in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut; implementation of self- government agreements in the Yukon and a new justice agreement with the Teslin Tlingit community; and the usual growth and demand for a basic Inuit and Indian programs, which reflects the 2 per cent growth escalator, which is an adjustment for inflation and population growth.