It is too early to evaluate which policies or practices have changed, but the programs are relevant to a number of DFO strategies or recommendations to come in the future, such as cod recovery, the seal hunt, et cetera Question No. 106 Mr. Loyola Hearn: With regard to the oil spill on November 21, 2004 off the Terra Nova platform and Canadian Coast Guard, CCG, involvement in any response: (a) how many CCG personnel were involved; (b) over what period of time were any CCG personnel involved; (c) how much CCG equipment, if any, was de ...[+++]dicated to the response and for what amount of time; (d) was there any reporting internal or external to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans that resulted from any CCG involvement in responding to this spill; (e) if CCG ships were part of the response, what responsibilities were forgone in order to respond to the spill?

Given the experience acquired in the field of rural development under the LEADER programme and the lessons that could be drawn from pilot projects on land-use planning implemented under the TERRA programme, it is proposed that a strategy be formulated designed to improve the integrated regional approach to mountain areas, taking into account the interaction between various decisionmaking levels (vertical integration) and in particular that a seminar should be held on 'mountain regions and land-use planning'; a communication from the Commission to the Council on EU mountain regions should be drawn up, extending and adapting to mountain r ...[+++]egions the method applied to coastal areas as set out in the Commission communication to the Council and the European Parliament on the integrated management of coastal zones; on the basis of that communication, a Community action plan for mountain areas should be drawn up and submitted to the Council for approval, grouping together horizontally a package of measures which could be carried out by the Union under different Community regulations, programmes and initiatives.

The regions have shown a growing interest in interregional cooperation, not only in the context of INTERREG II, but also through the innovative actions of the Structural Funds (RIS/RITTS, RISI, TERRA, RECITE; ECOS-Ouverture, Urban Development) and the Promotion of Innovation and Encouragement of SMEs Participation Programme (1998-2002) of the Fifth RTD Framework Programme.

The regions have shown a growing interest in interregional cooperation, not only in the context of INTERREG II, but also through the innovative actions of the Structural Funds (RIS/RITTS, RISI, TERRA, RECITE; ECOS-Ouverture, Urban Development) and the Promotion of Innovation and Encouragement of SMEs Participation Programme (1998-2002) of the Fifth RTD Framework Programme.

1996 - early 1997 : 35 pilot project are selected and launching with co-financing from the LIFE, TERRA and PHARE programmes (as well as one project entirely financed by the Norwegian government)

It is no longer being continued: instead, cooperation in the relevant regions will in future be pursued under the Interreg II C programme. It has also been possible for cross-border projects to receive funding under Article 10 of the ERDF (ECU 200 m), in cases where projects were simultaneously both of a cross-border and of an inter-regional nature. Such programmes include Recite (cooperation between EU internal regions), Ecos/Ouverture (inter-regional cooperation with countries external to the EU), Urban pilot projects and Terra (urban planning and ...[+++] development of networks of regional and local authorities).