EU officials based in Germany would see their pay adjusted by 0.6% (compared to 1.3% for German civil servants, who will also receive additional increases for the end of the year of up to 2.4%), 0.4% in the Netherlands (2% for Dutch civil servants) and 1.9% in France (2% for French civil servants).

11. Calls for an agreement in Cancun on robust rules on LULUCF that strengthen the level of ambition of the Annex I Parties, are designed to deliver emissions reductions from forestry and land use, require that Annex I Parties account for any increases in emissions from LULUCF and are consistent with the Parties' existing commitments to protect and enhance greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs;

(Return tabled) Question No. 214 Ms. Joyce Murray: With respect to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: (a) for each fiscal year since 2005-2006, how much money has the federal government allocated to the Games, to which entities, on which dates, for what purposes, and what is the total amount; (b) how much money in total was spent on the Canada Pavilion; (c) which companies were invited to bid on the Canada Pavilion; (d) what is the cost breakdown of the Canada Pavilion with respect to construction, hospitality, wages, security and other categories of costs; (e) who adjudicated the bids related to Canada Pavilion contract proposals and on what criteria was the adjudication based; (f) what requests for proposals, including ...[+++]MERX codes, did the government put forward related to the Games; (g) in total, how much money was allocated for promoting bilingualism and French translation, on what dates were these funds distributed, to which entities and for what purposes; (h) what was the government’s plan to address the H1N1 influenza pandemic before and during the Games, how much money was allocated for this plan, to which entities was it allocated and for what purpose; (i) what was the government’s plan to address human and sex trafficking during the Games, how much was spent on this plan, which entities received funds, on which dates and for what purposes; (j) how much money did the government spend on including aboriginal communities in the Games and for what initiatives; (k) how much money was allocated from Sport Canada for the Games, on which dates and for what purposes; and (l) what costs, including hospitality, accommodation, travel and other categories of costs, were incurred by the federal government to support the participation of the Prime Minister and other Ministers at the Games, how many staff members were sent from the Prime Minister’s Office, how many rooms did the Prime Minister, Ministers and their staff require, at what cost, at wh ...

If urban area are most affected by congestion, the trans-European transport network itself suffers increasingly from chronic congestion: 10 % of the trans-European road network is affected every day by traffic jams and 20 % of the rail network is affected by bottlenecks.

Commission gives green light for measures in favor of producers affected by the dioxin crisis in Belgium

- State Aid No N 736/93 - Measure to lowerthe cost of research personnel (Wetbevordering Speur- en Ontwikkelingswerk) - Netherlands - Approval Today the Commission raised no objections under the Articles 92(3)(c) of the EC Treaty and 61(3)(c) of the EEA Treaty to a new Dutch law which is meant to lower the cost of R and D personnel (Wet bevordering Speur- en Ontwikkelingswerk).