Programs and Quality Review

Water Quality and Quantity Programs Division

The 2013 Clean Air Programme for Europe, which updates the 2005 EU Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution to set new strategic policy objectives for 2020 and 2030; The new National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive), which is the main legislative implementation of the new objectives, setting caps on national pollution of the main air pollutants; The Ambient Air Quality Directives, setting local air quality limits which may n ...[+++]ot be exceeded anywhere in the EU – they were not revised in the 2013 review. Source-specific legislation designed to limit emissions from specific economic sectors, such as the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), the new Medium Combustion Plants Directive, the Euro standards for vehicles, energy efficiency standards, fuel standards for ships, etc.

Witnesses: From Health Canada: Denis Gauthier, Assistant Deputy Minister, Information, Analysis and Connectivity Branch; Jerry Lee, Director, Infostructure Systems Management Division, Information, Analysis and Connectivity Branch; Mimi Breton, Executive Director, Hepatitis C Division, Health Promotion and Programs Branch; Catherine Stewart, Director, Policy Development and Coordination Division, Health Promotion and Programs Branch; David Fransen, Director general, Population Health Directorate, Health Promotion and Programs Branch; Janet Davies, Director, Strategies and Systems for Health Directorate, Health Promotion and Programs ...[+++] Branch; Joel Weiner, A/Director General, Policy, Planning and Coordination Directorate, Health Protection Branch; Dr. Moe Hussain, A/Director, Branch Planning Bureau, Health Protection Branch; Gérard Séguin, Director, Financial Services, Health Protection Branch; Margaret Hassock, A/Director, Financial Services, Administration Program, Departmental Planning and Financial Administration Corporate Services Branch; Janice L. Pound, Acting Manager, Office of Strategic Planning, Communications and Quality, Therapeutic Products Programme; Paul R. Mayers, Acting Director, Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directorate, Health Protection Branch; Greg Hunter, Director, Information Resource Management Division; Hervé Leblanc, Director, Health Canada.

First, representing the Canada Revenue Agency, we are pleased to welcome Cathy Hawara, Director General, Charities Directorate, Legislative Policy and Regulatory Affairs Branch; Claude St-Pierre, Director General, Enforcement and Disclosures Directorate, Compliance Programs Branch; Alison Rutherford, Acting Director, Review and Analysis Division; and Stephanie Henderson, Manager, Special Enforcement Program, Enforcement and Disc ...[+++]losures Directorate, Compliance Programs Branch.

10. Calls for a prudent interpretation of the ‘slow recovery’ growth indicators and recommends a closer look into the sustainability of the improvements identified, in particular in trade and current account balances and public deficits and the progress of structural reforms; calls for a closer look into the quality of economic forecasts as previous Commission forecasts have more often than not been revised downwards; stresses the need to ...[+++]design assistance programmes under conservative rather than optimistic assumptions and scenarios, in order to avoid self-defeating and pro-cyclical effects;