Q. whereas high-quality products are essential to the production and export potential of the European Union and represent a very large share of its international trade, whereas the EU is exporting high-profile products with considerable economic value, and in the case of products with protected origin and geographical indications the net value of these products and foodstuffs is EUR 14 billion a year (excluding wines and spirits, which also account for a significant share of EU exports), whereas, in order to continue developing high-quality production to meet consumers' expectations, account should be taken of the s ...[+++]pecific needs of these sectors to ensure their competitiveness, including the need for more effective protection of EU geographical indications and protected origin labels by third-country trading partners,

Question No. 823 Ms. Olivia Chow: With regard to rail freight services in Canada, what is the government and its institutions measuring on a yearly basis in terms of: (a) percentage of rail cars picking up freight on time; (b) percentage of rail cars delivering freight on time; (c) percentage of fulfilled service commitments for the agreed-upon number of rail cars; (d) dollar value of economic damages from delays and service disruptions; (e) dollar value of compensation extended to customers by rail companies; (f) number of complaints received by CN and CP; (g) number of rail freight customers served broken down by industry sectors ...[+++], including but not limited to (i) agriculture, (ii) logging, (iii) mining, (iv) chemicals, (v) automotive?

(Return tabled) Question No. 369 Mr. Dennis Bevington: With regard to grants, contributions and contracts by the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency since August 18, 2009: (a) what funding applications were approved by the Minister’s office, as identified by (i) project name, (ii) applicant name, (iii) number of times previously submitted, (iv) date approved, (v) amount requested, (vi) amount awarded, (vii) sector, (viii) federal electoral district determined by application address; (b) what funding applications were rejected by the Minister’s office, identified by ...[+++] (i) project name, (ii) applicant name, (iii) total amount of submitted applications, (iv) date rejected, (v) amount requested, (vi) sector, (vii) federal electoral district determined by application address; (c) for each federal electoral district, what is the total value of funding requests that were (i) approved, (ii) rejected; and (d) what untendered contracts were issued by or on behalf of the Minister?

For the purposes of Article 9(1)(b), the notion "undertaking performing any of the functions of generation or supply" shall not include final customers who perform any of the functions of generation and/or supply of electricity, either directly or via undertakings over which they exercise control, either individually or jointly, provided that the final customers including their shares of the electricity produced in controlled undertakings are, on an annual average, net consumers of electricity and provided that the economic value of the electricity they sell to third parties is insignificant in proportion to their ot ...[+++]her business operations.

Finally, we price our service in a very competitive way relative to cable and to our competitors, so that we offer a very good economic value to our customers.

to abide by the rules for converting and rounding for dual price and value display for invoices and totals and instruments to help with conversions; not to make any additional charge if a consumer decides to pay in euros ; to provide information on the formalities for introducing euros; to display a minimum number of prices in euros and national monetary units at the start of 1999 and on an increasingly large scale up to 2002; to train personnel who are in contact with customers; to make it possible for people to pay in euros.