amending, through the setting up of a Joint Consultative Committee between the Committee of the Regions and the Bulgarian Liaison Committee for Co-operation with the Committee of the Regions, Decision No. 1/95 [2] adopting the rules of procedure of the Association Council

The Commission considers that the Office, acting in liaison with other relevant Commission and national departments in the Anti-fraud Advisory Committee or various committees or working parties reporting to it, [66] must undertake a regular evaluation of the mechanisms provided for by the regulations so that it can better assess the need for adjustments [67] and improve the match between the workload for the Member States and the practical needs of the Commission, the institutions and Member States.

In addition, a large number of academics and other organisations and persons have links with NICAM through their membership of the advisory committee or the independent complaint and appeals boards.

Based on this bill and what is in the main estimates, this department is responsible for a variety of quasi and independent agencies and tribunals which include the following: the office of the federal chief negotiator, internal trade negotiations; the office of the chief scientist; the Canadian aboriginal economic development program; Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre; the Defence industry productivity program; the Canada scholarships program; the Information Highway Advisory Council; the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology; the Industrial research assistance program; the remnants of Investment Canada; ...[+++] the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research Industry and Education, commonly known as CANARIE; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; the Federal Office of the Regional Development-Quebec, which requires an order in council to pass these responsibilities to yet another minister, the Minister of Finance; regional development in northern Ontario under FEDNOR; the network of centres of excellence, the National Research Council; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; the Standards Council of Canada; the Canadian Space Agency; the Communications Research Centre; Statistics Canada; Emergency Preparedness Canada; the Bureau of Competition; the Copyright Board of Canada; and more.

DRAFT PROGRAMME "DEVELOPMENTS IN BANKING SUPERVISION OVER THE LAST DECADE AND NEW CHALLENGES" Celebration of the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the European Banking Advisory Committee on 17 November 1989 in Brussels 9.00 Registration and coffee 9.30 Opening by Mr. Tommaso PADOA-SCHIOPPA, Acting Chairman of the European Banking Advisory Committee and Vice-Direttore Generale della Banca d'Italia 9.35 Address by Sir LEON BRITTAN, EC Vice-President and Commissioner responsible for Financial Institutions 10.00 Address by Mr. Takeshi OHTA, Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Japan 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Address by Mr. Alfons VERPLAETSE ...[+++], Governor of the National Belgium 11.30 Address by Mr. Geoffrey FITCHEW, Director General of the Commission of the European Communities - DG "Financial Institutions and Company Law" 12.30 Lunch offered by the Commission of the European Communities - Address by Mr. PADOA-SCHIOPPA 14.30 Address by Mr. Gerald CORRIGAN, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 15.00 Coffee break 15.30 Panel discussion chaired by Mr. Tim O'GRADY WALSHE, third Chairman of the Banking Advisory Committee and General Manager of the Bank of Ireland after short presentation by - Mr. Renaud de la GENIERE, Chairman of "Compagnie Financière de Suez" - Prof. Dr. Dietrich KÖELLHOFER, Member of the Board of the "Bayerische Vereinsbank A.G". - Sir Jeremy MORSE, Chairman of the EC Banking Federation and Chairman of "Lloyds Bank Plc" - Mr. Huib MULLER, second Chairman of the EC Banking Advisory Committee, Chairman of the Basle Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices and Director of "De Nederlandsche Bank N.V".

Following the discussion of the Commission's proposals at the meeting of the Consultative Council of Local and Regional Authorities on 29 June, the Commission is now launching relevant pilot schemes with the active cooperation of the three interregional representative organizations - Assemblée des Régions d'Europe (ARE), Conseil des Communes et Régions d'Europe (CCRE) and the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA) - which will be responsible for the management of the first operations.