(10 ) Member States should therefore take and enforce specific measures to prevent and penalise fraudulent practices associated with certificates of competency as well as pursue their efforts within the International Maritime Organisation to achieve strict and enforceable agreements on the world-wide combating of such practices.

(9) Member States should therefore take and enforce specific measures to prevent and penalise fraudulent practices associated with certificates of competency issued in their territory.

assist the Commission in the performance of any task assigned to it by existing and future Community legislation on maritime safety, ship pollution prevention and ship pollution response, notably legislation applicable to classification societies, the safety of passenger ships, as well as that applicable to the safety, training, certification and watchkeeping of ships' crews, including the verification of compliance of third countries with the requirements of the 1978 International convention on standards of training, certification and watchkeeping, and of the measures taken to prevent fraud involving certificates of competency.

Granting a patent on the prevention of breast cancer will not therefore block research in this area.

Another new provision (clause 16) would incorporate all licences, permits, certificates, etc., issued under the current Act into one document called a “Canadian maritime document,” defined in clause 2 to mean a licence, permit, certificate or other document that was issued by the Minister of Transport under Part 1 (General), 3 (Personnel), 4 (Safety), 9 (Pollution Prevention) or 11 (Enforcement) to verify that the person to whom, or vessel to which, it was issued had met requirements under that Part.

We need to work on the prevention of disease, detection of disease, health care services and treatment, new discoveries, new products and new patents.