The assistance was intended for measures in the areas of decommissioning, maintaining and monitoring reactors after shutdown, waste treatment, waste and spent fuel storage and decontamination, and dismantling work, as well as in the energy sector (for the replacement of the production capacity of the decommissioned units, improving energy supply security and energy efficiency, and other measures contributing to the necessary restructuring and upgrading of the energy infrastructure) and dealing with the social consequences (providing support for plant staff in maintaining a high level of safety after closure and retraining staff for new decommissioning ...[+++]tasks).

· social consequences (support for plant personnel in maintaining a high level of safety in the periods prior to dismantling after closure, and re-training of staff for new tasks in decommissioning),

supports the establishment of a Shared Services Centre for the management of CSDP missions, that is to say, an interinstitutional office comprising the Commission's Unit 3 (CFSP Operations of the Foreign Policy Instruments – formerly Relex/A3) and the CPCC Mission Support Unit; notes that the new Service, by addressing the personnel, logistics, procurement and financial responsibilities of the civilian CSDP missions and by relieving the Heads of Mission from part of their administrative duties, would guarantee gr ...[+++]eater efficiency both by pooling administrative functions, starting with the selection and recruitment of personnel, and by centralising procurement and equipment management;

The replacement of the Sea Kings will not only give us a greater capability to do some of the things we do overseas, it will in fact give us significantly greater capability to be able to conduct surveillance particularly off our own ocean approaches (0935) The Chair: Thank you very much, Admiral.

Canada's troops are carrying out their duties during complex operations, both at home and abroad, in an exemplary fashion, and this is thanks to the unwavering efforts of thousands of regular, reserve and civilian members who have done an exceptional job of preparing them.

Their own personal protection kit has been upgraded in recent years as well. That package makes the Canadian Forces more flexible, more deployable, and more able to respond to both short- and longer-term crises when called upon and do a full spectrum from combat, to humanitarian, to training.