273. Takes note that the Director-General of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation issued a general reservation with regard to the accuracy of cost claims (EUR 3 664 million) for the FP7 in the Directorate-General's annual activity report, although he himself expects the ‘net financial impact of errors’, based on 1552 closed projects, to be around 2,09 %, meaning close to the materiality threshold; considers that such reservations render the term ‘sound financial management’ meaningless; calls therefore on the Director-General to use reservations, in future, in a more specific and targeted way;

The following list identifies the organizations/positions to which the NGFC SOR was sent for review and concurrence: vice chief of defence staff, VCDS, Chief of Programme, Director Defence Programme Coordination; Chief of the Land Staff, Director of Land Requirements; Assistant Deputy Minister, Information Management, Director General Information Management Project Delivery; Assistant Deputy Minister, Infrastructure and Environment, Director General Realty Policy and Plans; Assistant Deputy Minister, Materiel, Director General Aer ...[+++]ospace Equipment Program Management; VCDS, Chief of Defence Intelligence, J2 Plans and Development; Canadian Special Operations Forces Command; Canadian Expeditionary Force Command; Canada Command; Chief of the Air Staff, CAS, DAR 2 - Transport and Search and Rescue; CAS DAR 3, Maritime Air and Electronic Warfare and Avionics; CAS DAR 8, Unmanned Air Vehicles; CAS DAR 9, Tactical Aviation; CAS DAR Prog, Programme Coordination; CAS Director Air Contracted Force Generation; CAS Director Air Programmes; CAS Director Air Strategic Plans; CAS Director Air Public Affairs; CAS Director Flight Safety; CAS Director Air Force Readiness; and CAS Director Air Personnel Strategy.

- a directorate general for administrative, staffing, budgetary, security and communication and information system matters working in the EEAS framework managed by the executive Secretary-General. The High Representative shall appoint, in accordance with the normal rules of recruitment, a Director General for budget and administration who shall work under the authority of the High Representative. He shall be responsible to the High Representative for the administrative and internal budgetary management of the EEAS. He shall follow the same budget lines and administrative rules as applicable in the part of Section ...[+++] III of the EU budget which falls under Heading V of the Multiannual Financial Framework;

With regard to managerial issues, these can be summarised as follows: Director-Generals are responsible for routine financial management decisions whilst Commissioners supervise the management of his/her Director-General or Head of Service.

I welcome, by video conference from Vancouver, Paul Macgillivray, regional director for fisheries management, Pacific region; Paul Ryall, area chief, resource management; and Pablo Sobrino, area chief, lower Fraser; and here in Ottawa, David Bevan, director general, resource management.

With us in this panel from Citizenship and Immigration Canada are Mike MacDonald, Director General, Operational Management and Coordination; Maureen Tsai, Acting Director General, Admissibility Branch; David Quartermain, Director, Program Integrity Division; Chris Gregory, Director, Identity Management and Information Sharing.