‘technical assistance projects’ means projects providing, by way of action grants, financial support to help applicants prepare integrated projects, and in particular to ensure that those projects comply with the timing, technical and financial requirements of the LIFE Programme in coordination with funds referred to in Article 8(3) ;

A group of recommendations under the rubric, “Help Canadian farmers produce adequate amounts of secure and healthy food”, included offering incentives on designing tax policies to promote local food production, processing capacity and distribution networks, including things like farmers markets and agricultural co-operatives; developing and implementing an alternative and appropriate food safety regulatory regime for small farm-gate operations; analyzing the impact of our trade agreements with other ...[+++]countries on our farmers; requiring federal government institutions to use local sources for their food supplies and encouraging other levels of government to do the same.

The Auditor General said that after the ACAN was posted, the government negotiated with Boeing, looked at a schedule to produce these aircraft and had to develop a detailed statement of work.

9. Emphasises that rapid and decisive action must be taken to control avian influenza and so prevent a human pandemic, first of all with respect to animal health, as this is the primary source of risk, and that significant measures, including a full assessment of hospital bed capacity at Member State level, must also be taken to prepare for a possible human pandemic, so that the means to control it, should it occur, are available; considers that particular attention should be paid to developing further the capacity to produce pandemic vaccines and anti-virals in Member States and at European level and strengthening the infrastructure in ...[+++] the animal and public health sectors; considers that, in this connection, the European Union should provide logistic and financial assistance with the development of vaccines;

3. Asks the Commission in the ambit of the WTO negotiations to follow an ambitious agenda to include boosting agricultural market access, to eliminate all forms of export subsidies and trade-distorting domestic support as soon as possible, and to support African countries with a strategy to protect their agriculture up to the point of self-sufficiency, in order to guarantee a decent income for small farmers, increase local production, guarantee food sec ...[+++]urity and proceed to selective market openings, as it has been the case in Europe;

This Partnership, and in particular its intermediate objectives, should assist Turkey in preparing for membership within a framework of economic and social convergence and in developing its national programme for the taking up of the acquis as well as a relevant timetable for its implementation.