European citizens and passengers will benefit, as will those Member States that commit themselves ultimately to moving traffic away from the roads and on to the rail system.

The Council also urged the Member States and the acceding countries to implement fully all the guidelines of the surveillance network, to contribute actively to setting up a specific expert group on severe acute respiratory syndrome under the Network Committee and to provide by 15 May all relevant information to the Commission on measures taken to address SARS.

Air traffic management systems and their constituents shall be designed, built, maintained and operated using the appropriate and validated procedures, in such a way as to ensure the seamless operation of the EATMN at all times and for all phases of flight. Seamless operation can be expressed, in particular, in terms of information-sharing, including the relevant operational status information, common understanding of information, comparable processing performances and the associated procedures enabling common operational performances agreed for the whole or parts of the EATMN.

Air traffic management systems and their constituents shall be designed, built, maintained and operated in such a way so as to ensure the seamless operation of the air traffic management network throughout the Community at all times and for all phases of flight. Seamless operation can be expressed, in particular, in terms of information exchange, common understanding of information, comparable processing performances and the associated procedures enabling common operational performances agreed for the whole or parts of the air traffic management network.

In a letter to the CRTC, dated October 8, 1999, the director general of Action Réseau Consommateur, Madam Nathalie St-Pierre, exploded the myth that Quebec consumers do not object to negative option marketing.

Our National Network executive director has schooled me carefully in this subject, and I am repeating truthfully what she has said to me.