Twenty per cent of the available funding is earmarked specifically for communities, but when we talk about the French fact, we are talking about the whole network, wherever we broadcast across Canada, be it with Radio-Canada or the Canadian Television Fund. That brings it up to around 45 per cent.

exchange, gather and disseminate knowledge, evidence and expertise within and outside the Network, in particular on the different alternatives, therapeutic options and best practices with regard to the provision of services and the treatments available for each particular disease or condition.

It seems to me that what they're talking about is either current affairs or documentaries, so that if we have a documentary about, say, life in The Pas, it would be fed into the larger chain so that people in the rest of the country could see it too.

List of pilot European Reference Networks for Rare Diseases · Dyscerne: European Network of Centres of Reference for Dysmorphology · ECORN CF: European Centres of Reference Network for Cystic Fibrosis · PAAIR: Patient Associations and Alpha1 International Registry, · EPNET European Porphyria Network, · EN-RBD European Network of Rare Bleeding Disorders, Paediatric Hodgkins Lymphoma Network · NEUROPED: European Network of Reference for Rare Paediatric Neurological Diseases · EURO HISTIO NET: A reference network for Langerhans cell histiocytosis and associated syndrome in EU · TAG: Together Against Genodermatoses · CARE NMD: Dissemination and Implementation of the Sta ...[+++]ndards of Care for Duchene muscular Dystrophy in Europe

The Council TAKES NOTE that during the same debate the European Parliament signified its agreement to the Commission's interpretation of this text" (iii) Statement re first indent of Article 4, point (c), of the Directive dealing with conditional access to digital television and reading as follows: "Member States shall take all the necessary measures to ensure that the operators of conditional access services, irrespective of the means of transmission, who produce and market access services to digital television services: - offer to all broadcasters, on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis, technical servi ...[+++]ces enabling the broadcasters' digitally-transmitted services to be received by viewers authorized by means of decoders administered by the service operators, and comply with Community competition law, in particular if a dominant position appears; "". The Council and the Commission state that the first indent of Article 4, point (c): - applies to any provider of conditional access services operating on a cable, terrestrial or satellite broadcasting network in relation to broadcasters who have access to that network under the national procedures in force and wish to benefit from that conditional access service; - does not seek to impose an obligation to offer to any broadcaster access for television services to packages or tiers of television services configured and/or administered by the provider, or services involving transparent distribution to subscribers; - only requires Member States to ensure that broadcasters may have access to conditional access services and that the obligation in Article 4, point (c) does not extend to the underlying network.

European network for rural development At the same time as approving the first Leader II programmes, Mr Fischler also decided, as the result of a call for tenders, on the choice of a body which will assist the Commission in setting up the European Observatory for innovation and rural development and will take on a series of administrative and coordination tasks connected with the operation of the European Network for rural development which is the focus for the Leader II Initiative. The benefits provided by this body will be as follows: - collecting, preparing and disseminating information concerning, firstly, all the Community actions f ...[+++]or rural development and, secondly, the innovative and demonstration schemes financed by the Leader II Initiative or from other sources; - making use of and processing the evaluation work relating to each regional or national Leader II programme; - running the European Network for rural development, through the medium of advanced communication techniques (electronic mail), various publications, meetings and events, and providing technical support for national networks and non-governmental organizations necessary for the smooth operation of Leader II; - providing technical assistance to government services and regional and local authorities in the field of rural development; - providing technical assistance to facilitate the launching of transnational rural cooperation projects planned under Leader II. Commenting on these decisions, Mr Fischler said: "I am happy to see Leader II, the new Community Initiative for rural development, now taking shape. I wish it all success, just as Leader I was successful.