35. Reminds the Commission of Parliament's remarks concerning the Court of Auditors' findings in its 2012 Annual Report: “[s]tresses that the findings of the Court of Auditors’ audit indicate weaknesses in the ‘first-level checks’ on expenditure [in Member States]; observes that, for 56 % of the regional policy transactions affected by error (quantifiable and/or non-quantifiable), the Court of Auditors considers that sufficient information was available for the Member State authorities to have detected and corrected one or more of the errors before certifying the expenditure to the Commission”; notes that this is why Parliament end ...[+++]orsed the reservation issued by the Director-General of DG REGIO concerning ERDF/Cohesion Fund/IPA management and control systems for the 2007-2013 programming period in 17 Member States (72 programmes) and asked for rapid actions to be taken;

39 Endorses the reservation issued by the Director-General of DG REGIO concerning ERDF/Cohesion Fund/IPA management and control systems for the 2007-2013 programming period in 17 Member States (72 programmes) and 12 European Territorial Cooperation programmes; endorses furthermore the reservation concerning ERDF/Cohesion Fund/IPA management and control systems for the 2000-2006 programming period in 5 Member States (11 programmes) on programmes; in this context points out in particular:

1. This Regulation does not apply to transactions or orders carried out in pursuit of monetary, exchange rate or public debt management policy by a Member State, by the European System of Central Banks, by a national central bank of a Member State, by any other ministry, agency or special purpose vehicle of a Member State, or by any person acting on their behalf and, in the case of a Member State that is a federal state, to such transactions, orders or behaviours carried out by a member making up the federation.

On this basis alone, the federal government, the provincial governments and the First Nation governments stand to benefit from oil and gas operations on reserves.

contribute towards rational and sustainable exploitation of the surplus of coastal States’ marine resources, in particular by preventing the overfishing of stocks which are of interest for local people; in this context due account will be taken of the coastal State’s priorities in favour of its private national sector; improve scientific and technical knowledge of the fisheries in question, taking into account the existing and necessary work in the field carried out at the appropriate regional level and taking into consideration the likely impact of fishing on the environment; contribute towards combating illegal, unregulated and unre ...[+++]ported fishing, in particular by stepping up in a non-discriminatory fashion the management, control and follow-up measures for fishing operations; contribute towards strategies for the sustainable management of fisheries as defined by the coastal State, in particular by taking account of the development programmes elaborated at national and/or regional level with Community assistance in accordance with cooperation or association agreements; facilitate the integration of developing coastal States into the global economy, inter alia by promoting fair conditions of employment between the employees of the sector and by encouraging the creation of an environment that is favourable to private investment and to the development of a dynamic, viable and competitive private sector, notably by a framework supporting European investments and the transfer of technology and vessels; foster better global governance of fisheries at financial and political level, in particular by strengthening the capacity building of coastal States and by the fight against corruption.

Sessional Paper No. 8512-361-96. by Mr. Massé (President of the Treasury Board) Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the 7th Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, " Materiel Management in the Federal Government" (Sessional Paper No. 8510- 352-97), presented to the House on Tuesday April 15, 1997.