46. Calls for a comprehensive communications strategy, involving all EU institutions, Member States, social partners and civil society that will improve the overall visibility and transparency of European actions in beneficiary countries as well as among European citizens, while ensuring that disaster relief is never subordinate to trading or political and strategic concerns; considers that this strategy should seek to simplify and standardise communication methods and tools; proposes to this end the establishment, for example, of a ...[+++] standard dress code and logo in conjunction with national badges for all European staff and the appointment of a single spokesperson responsible for communications concerned with emergency response; calls for any communications strategy to ensure a clear distinction between humanitarian assistance and military activities;

46. Calls for a comprehensive communications strategy, involving all EU institutions, Member States, social partners and civil society that will improve the overall visibility and transparency of European actions in beneficiary countries as well as among European citizens, while ensuring that disaster relief is never subordinate to trading or political and strategic concerns; considers that this strategy should seek to simplify and standardise communication methods and tools; proposes to this end the establishment, for example, of a ...[+++] standard dress code and logo in conjunction with national badges for all European staff and the appointment of a single spokesperson responsible for communications concerned with emergency response; calls for any communications strategy to ensure a clear distinction between humanitarian assistance and military activities;

Question No. 46 Mr. Paul Dewar: With respect to the case John Guenette and Joanna Gualtieri v. Attorney General of Canada, Frank Townson, et al. and also the case Joanna Gualitieri v. Attorney General of Canada, Frank Townson, et al: (a) what are the total expenditures of the government with regard to these cases including, but not limited to, all legal fees, monitoring the progress and impact on public opinion of the case, in preparing communications strategies, and in preparing briefing packages for officials and ministers, on an annual basis, broken down by expenditure item; and (b) with respect to the figures in (a), how much was sp ...[+++]ent annually, on a departmental or agency basis?

Hon. Alfonso Gagliano: No. If, for example, the Department of Health decided to conduct an anti-tobacco advertising campaign, the committee, through the secretariat and the Privy Council, asked the people of the Department of Health to make a presentation to us on their campaign plan.

59. Calls for women to be taken into account in the analysis and evaluation of the information and communication strategy and for them to be involved in the development of new methodologies by the Press and Communication Directorate-General and also calls for verification of the impact on women of information campaigns and their impact on how images of women are created and for the findings thereof to be incorporated in the draft of the new communication strategy in 2005;

6. Calls for women to be taken into account in the analysis and evaluation of the information and communication strategy and for them to be involved in the development of new methodologies by the Press and Communication Directorate-General and also calls for verification of the impact on women of information campaigns and their impact on how images of women are created and for the findings thereof to be incorporated in the draft of the new communication strategy in 2005.