Notified bodies should pay special attention to critical processes such as design control, establishment of material specifications, purchasing and control of incoming material or components, assembling, software validation, sterilisation, batch-release, packaging, and product quality control, regardless of whether they are subcontracted or not.

(Return tabled) Question No. 88 Hon. Carolyn Bennett: With respect to Internet applications: (a) is the government working towards the inclusion of rich Internet applications within its design and development with regard to its Web sites; (b) what is the government’s response to the American response to rich Internet applications made ten years ago; (c) is the government planning on adopting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standard; (d) what is the monetary impact of the government’s present use of WCAG 1.0 standard knowing that software contractors have built WCAG 2.0 accessibility into their software; (e) have software contractors requested that the government's Common Look and Feel (CLF) Committee relax or amend t ...[+++]heir CLF standards to allow for accessibility and, if so, can the government give details of the correspondence; (f) have software contractors required that the government pay extra because it must simplify their software in order to remove these accessibility features; (g) which federal department has the responsibility to ensure that all programs, services and technologies are accessible to people with disabilities and that they are available through the mainstream channels such as the Internet and in alternate formats; (h) is accessibility a mandatory requirement within information and communications procurements to ensure that blind Canadians have access to the same resources as all other Canadians and that they can access all of this through mainstream channels such as the Internet and in alternate formats; (i) how does the government of Canada inform blind Canadians about the availability of information to protect them from incidents of identity theft and fraud; (j) are the government's Web accessibility regulations up to date with today's Web technologies; (k) are Web developers in the government given the support they need to build accessible interactive Web sites, especially when building sites that offer essential ...

Taking account of the growing importance of software in the field of medical devices, be it as stand alone or as software incorporated in a device, validation of software in accordance with the state of the art should be an essential requirement.

The Commission's action follows a complaint by American software company Sun Microsystems that Microsoft breached European Union antitrust rules by engaging in discriminatory licensing and by refusing to supply essential information on its Windows operating systems.

To this end, three research topics have been identified: - "Software technologies" the aim of which is to ensure that the Union has a substantial software production capability (software being the major cost component in IT systems), as a result of research into new programming methods, and the design of intelligent systems, etc.; - "Technologies for IT components and subsystems"; research into components (semiconductors, integrated microsystems, peripherals, and flat screens, etc.) is intended to prepare for forthcoming changes in computer technology; - "Multimedia technologies" the aim of which is to develop technologies making it p ...[+++]ossible to create, manipulate and store multimedia information (image compression, optical storage, software, etc.).

To this end, three research topics have been identified: - "Software technologies" the aim of which is to ensure that the Union has a substantial software production capability (software being the major cost component in IT systems), as a result of research into new programming methods, and the design of intelligent systems, etc.; - "Technologies for IT components and subsystems"; research into components (semiconductors, integrated microsystems, peripherals, and flat screens, etc.) is intended to prepare for forthcoming changes in computer technology; - "Multimedia technologies" the aim of which is to develop technologies making it p ...[+++]ossible to create, manipulate and store multimedia information (image compression, optical storage, software, etc.).