32. Urges the Croatian Government to improve the coordination of central government institutions responsible for environmental management, in particular those for spatial planning, waste and water management and air, in order to be able to sufficiently preserve the unique environment and maintain a high level of biodiversity; calls on the Government in particular to carry out, as a first step and matter of urgency, a thorough assessment of its current administrative architecture in the fields of environmental policy-making and management;

(Return tabled) Question No. 448 Mr. Bruce Hyer: With regard to the cruise ship industry since 2005: (a) what federal departments have provided support to the cruise ship industry across Canada, to date; (b) how much was spent on each project by each federal department, agency, board and commission in support of the cruise ship industry, to date; (c) what is the annual total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in each federal agency, board, or ...[+++] commission working on implementation of projects related to the cruise ship industry; (d) what specific federal programs support the development of the cruise ship industry in Canada; (e) what were the discharge incidents of sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or solid waste by cruise ships in Canadian waters, distributed by date, location, ship, and type of discharge; (f) how many charges, warnings or penalties were issued against cruise ship operators for all sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or other discharges in contradiction of regulations, including date, operator, location, offence and amount; (g) how much was spent by each federal agency, commission, department or organization in enforcement of regulations related to discharge of sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or other discharges; (h) what is the annual total number of FTEs working in each federal agency, commission, department or organization on enforcement of regulations related to discharge of sewage, bilge, grey water, or other discharges; (i) what onboard observation has been performed by each federal agency, commission, department or organization with respect to discharge of sewage, bilge, ballast, grey water, or other discharges, distributed by year and location; (j) what reports, studies, investigations, conclusions, regulatory changes, warnings, or penalties were issued or undertaken by any federal government body related to the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II’s September 2005 discharge incident off the coast of Cape Breton; (k) how muc ...

Water flow in recirculatory systems or filtration within enclosures should be sufficient to remove suspended solids and wastes and to ensure that water quality parameters are maintained within acceptable levels.

For water, it will be assisting, equipping and building the capacity of the local waste utilities to improve waste collection and disposal services.

Many of the planned measures are directed towards this objective: - improving the accessibility of legislation: 1996 plans include recasting the legislation relating to veterinary medicines and agricultural tractors and consolidation of the directives on machinery, technical standards and regulations, fertilizers, collective dismissals, dangerous substances and preparations, and the regulations on the common organization of the sugar market and the financing of the common agricultural policy; - rationalizing the legislation: examples are the general review of the strategy on waste, the framework proposal on water (integrated management) ...[+++], the follow-up to the Green Paper on food law, the horizontal rules governing State aids to replace the existing rules for the motor industry, man-made fibres and textiles; - lightening the administrative and other burdens resulting from legislation: for instance, simplification of the directive on the marketing of plant health products (single, fast-track procedure for certain pesticides); review of current thresholds and reference-back clauses in the merger-control regulation; simplification of rules of origin for Central and Eastern Europe, EFTA and the Mediterranean; promotion of use of administrative sources for statistical purposes; - widening the range of available instruments, notably by developing alternative approaches in place of legislation: implementation of the new non-legislative approach to accounting; development of frameworks for voluntary agreements with industry on environmental protection and "green" taxes and charges in the Member States; - facilitating the application of legislation by decentralization (e.g. Notice on cooperation with national authorities in competition law matters) or by flanking measures (e.g. methodological and financial support to the Member States for the implementation of the regulation on business statistical surveys).

Training will be provided for administrators and technicians responsible for dealing with day-to-day water, energy, transport and waste management issues and also more complex problems such as the urban settlement of migrant flows, safety and local taxes.