provide food assistance in a manner that protects livelihoods and strengthens the self-reliance and resilience of vulnerable populations, and local communities, and that prevents, prepares for, mitigates and responds to food security crises.

There is a close connection between the regions of Quebec and its major urban centres; while the latter represent industrial, commercial and cultural productivity, the former represent food self-sufficiency and the source of life.

In addition to setting up an independent scientific assessment and communications capability in the European Food Safety Authority, it also sets out a general framework for food law, outlining the overarching principles, procedures and requirements of food law to ensure a high and harmonised level of consumer health protection in the internal market.

They should be coordinated and eventually dovetailed with each other so as to maximise opportunities for sustainable and durable impact, pursuing the ultimate objective of self-reliance for victims of food crises.

5. to protect livelihoods threatened by recent, ongoing, or imminent crises, minimise damage to food production and marketing systems, and establish conditions to promote the rehabilitation and restoration of self reliance; and

These are the claims that we chiefly want to draw to your attention: we want legislation to recognize that the second spouse or common law spouse is the only spouse of her husband or common law spouse and vice versa; and to give blended families an equal status with normal families so that they be treated like normal families especially regarding taxation; we want the law to limit the right to support payment for an ex-spouse to a maximum period of two years following the date of the divorce; and to establish rules that confirm the financial independence of the spouses of the second marriage, by ensuring that the financial situation o ...[+++]f the second spouse—of course this does not happen as frequently, but there are more and more cases of ex-spouses receiving support—not be taken into account when the judge determines the amount of support to be paid to the ex-spouse of our husband or spouse.