With respect to working more closely together, I co-chair, with the assistant deputy minister of service delivery for Veterans Affairs, the VAC-DND steering committee, which is a senior strategic-level committee.

We're glad to have with us today, from the Department of National Defence, Rear-Admiral Andrew Smith, chief of military personnel and co-chair of the DND and veterans affairs joint steering committee. Accompanying him is Colonel Gerry Blais, director of the casualty support management and joint personnel support unit.

16. Recalls that the Lisbon Treaty has reinforced the role of the European Defence Agency (EDA) in supporting the Member States in their efforts to improve the military capabilities for the Common Security and Defence Policy; suggests, therefore, that the Member States ask the Agency to examine how to improve coordination of defence planning in Europe; recalls, furthermore, that the Treaty tasks the EDA to evaluate the observance of capability commitments and to promote the harmonisation of operational needs, and calls for better execution of these tasks; recommends that, as a first step in the ‘European semester’ exercise, the Member ...[+++] States could submit their draft national security and defence reviews to the EDA for advice, to assess them in particular in the light of the capability priorities set by the EDA steering board in the Capability Development Plan, as well as of the plans of the other Member States and of the NATO Defence Planning Process; believes that, in the very short term, the EDA should also play an important role in defining a European capabilities and armaments policy;

16. Recalls that the Lisbon Treaty has reinforced the role of the European Defence Agency (EDA) in supporting the Member States in their efforts to improve the military capabilities for the Common Security and Defence Policy; suggests, therefore, that the Member States ask the Agency to examine how to improve coordination of defence planning in Europe; recalls, furthermore, that the Treaty tasks the EDA to evaluate the observance of capability commitments and to promote the harmonisation of operational needs, and calls for better execution of these tasks; recommends that, as a first step in the ‘European semester’ exercise, the Member ...[+++] States could submit their draft national security and defence reviews to the EDA for advice, to assess them in particular in the light of the capability priorities set by the EDA steering board in the Capability Development Plan, as well as of the plans of the other Member States and of the NATO Defence Planning Process; believes that, in the very short term, the EDA should also play an important role in defining a European capabilities and armaments policy;

Steering Committee on Justice Efficiencies and Access to the Justice System, Final Report on Mega-trials of the Steering Committee on Justice Efficiencies and Access to the Criminal Justice System, Department of Justice, January 2005. [ Return to text ]

7. Should any Member of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking be in default of its commitments concerning its agreed financial contribution to the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, the Executive Director shall convene a meeting of the Governing Board to decide whether the remaining Members should revoke the defaulting Member's membership or if any other measures should be taken until its obligations have been met.