6. RECALLS that a measure applied to aviation and maritime transport should have the primary goal to allow for the sector to contribute through mitigation to the 2 degree objective established by the UNFCCC; REITERATES that the carbon pricing of global aviation and maritime transportation would generate the necessary price signal to efficiently achieve more emission reductions from these sectors and could generate large financial flows, as highlighted in the AGF and the G20 reports; In this context, TAKES NOTE of the Commission's work on carbon pricing of international aviation and maritime transport and the options under consideration in the context of ICAO and IMO for global measures to address emissions in the aviation and maritime sec ...[+++]tors; CONCLUDES that a majority of those have the potential to generate a carbon price which could potentially also generate significant revenues; NOTES that finance available, including from auctions of aviation allowances in the EU ETS, could help to support climate action in developing countries while STRESSING that it will be up to each Member State to determine the use of public revenues in accordance with national budgetary rules and in consistency with a sound and sustainable public finances policy framework of the EU, without prejudging the ongoing negotiations at the IMO; WELCOMES an acceleration of work by ICAO to further develop options for global market-based measures to address aviation emissions; ENCOURAGES the EU and its Member States to further engage effectively in negotiations in ICAO and IMO to support carbon pricing schemes which primarily incentivise mitigation and also have the potential to generate revenue; and URGES all Parties to IMO and ICAO to further increase their efforts to make progress on market based mechanisms to address emissions from global aviation and maritime transportation.

(Return tabled) Question No. 88 Mr. Garry Breitkreuz: With regard to the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Canadian Firearms Registration System (CFRS) Alternate Services Delivery (ASD) contract that was eventually awarded to Team Centra (a consortium of CGI Group and BDP Business Data Services Limited) in 2002: (a) were bidders required to agree to pay a penalty of $30,000 per day for every day their system was not implemented after the Service Effective Date (SED) to defray costs of paying two vendors, E.D.S. of Canada Ltd (EDS) and Team Centra, at the same time and, if so, was this clause or a similar penalty clause carried forward ...[+++]into the contractual agreement between Team Centra and the Crown; (b) what was the official Contract Notification Date (CND) as required by the RFP; (c) what was the exact contracted SED; (d) in accordance with the RFP requirement, how much has Team Centra paid to the Crown based on the contracted SED; (e) how much has the Crown paid to EDS, Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP since the original SED of the ASD contract with Team Centra; (f) what deliverables were provided by EDS in return for these payments; (g) what deliverables were provided by Team Centra in return for these payments; (h) is the anticipated overlap of the two systems (CFRS I and CFRS II) still in accordance with the requirement in the RFP; (i) was the intent of the RFP to ensure no payment was made to the “Systems Integrator” until the system was delivered and, if so, when was the system delivered and what was the ongoing monthly charge to the Crown from Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP and what was the purpose of these charges; (j) has the user acceptance testing taken place on the Team Centra Application Code; (k) what was the value of the EDS Change Request to incorporate Bill C-10A amendments into the CFRS I system and why was this request needed; (l) what is the estimated dollar value and revised end date for the contracts currently under review with Team ...

All Member States perceive a need to increase the quality of their education and training systems. This applies to the quality of the learning process both for young people and for adults; to the quality of the teaching process, with the implications for initial and in-service teacher training and of support to teachers and trainers dealing with disadvantaged groups or with adults; and to the quality of the instruments and teaching materials available to help people learn.

EU support to the Nigerian elections consisted of the following elements: support for the Independent National Election Commission (900.000 Euros for civic education, computing and vehicles); support for the UN in its co-ordinating role (850.000 Euros); the provision of a technical assistant for UN and EU co-ordination (80.000 Euros [41]); assistance to local election monitoring through a Nigerian umbrella NGO (Transition Monitoring Group) (600.000 Euros [42]); and a CFSP Joint Action (810.000 Euros) to deploy an EU contingent of 100 election obs ...[+++]ervers [43].

In this context, measures under NOW contribute to the development of appropriate training, guidance, counselling and employment systems, training for the target groups and key players, job creation and support for the creation of businesses, cooperatives and partnerships, and information and dissemination measures. Number of NOW participants: 7 760 Community funding available: ECU 16 million. Measures under HORIZON contribute to the development of appropriate training, guidance, counselling and employment systems ...[+++], training for the target groups and key players, job creation and support for the creation of businesses, cooperatives and partnerships, and information and dissemination measures. Number of HORIZON participants: 10 892 Community funding available: ECU 32 million. Measures under YOUTHSTART contribute to the development of appropriate training, guidance, counselling and employment systems, training for the target groups and key players, and information and dissemination measures. Number of YOUTHSTART participants: 4 270 Community funding available: ECU 14 million. The sum of ECU 2.4 million has been earmarked for technical assistance projects.

In this context, measures under NOW contribute to the development of appropriate training, guidance, counselling and employment systems, training for the target groups and key players, job creation and support for the creation of businesses, cooperatives and partnerships, and information and dissemination measures. Number of NOW participants: 1 620 persons Community funding available: ECU 3.048 million. Measures under HORIZON contribute to the development of appropriate training, guidance, counselling and employment ...[+++]systems, training for the target groups and key players, job creation and support for the creation of businesses, cooperatives and partnerships, and information and dissemination measures. Number of HORIZON participants: 3 007 persons Community funding available: ECU 6.212 million. Measures under YOUTHSTART contribute to the development of appropriate training, guidance, counselling and employment systems, training for the target groups and key players, and information and dissemination measures. Number of YOUTHSTART participants: 999 persons Community funding available: ECU 2.462 million. The OP comprises two sub-programmes: - ESF assistance in the non-Objective 1 regions; - technical assistance. Technical assistance measures are divided into two main groups: - technical assistance for project promoters and the transnational dimension of the programme; - technical assistance for the national dimension of the programme.