Head of Service (A2), Joint Interpreting and Conference Service, responsible, in particular, for restructuring the interpretation Service to prepare for the near doubling of the languages used in meetings of the institutions following Enlargement; promoting awareness of multilingualism amongst the applicant countries; and implementing the Reform.

9. Invites all institutions to examine the viability and merit of integrating their translation services and to provide an assessment in the annual report of the Secretaries-General on the evolution of heading 5; instructs all the Secretaries-General of the institutions to seek an agreement with the interpretation services with a view to paving the way for distance interpretation; considers that all categories of staff, including the language services, should be ready to adapt to the evolving needs of the institutions, make the best use of ...[+++]available technologies and approach the new challenges posed by enlargement in a constructive way;

9. Invites all institutions to examine the viability and merit of integrating their translation services and to provide an assessment in their annual report of the Secretaries General on the evolution of heading 5; instructs all the Secretaries General of the institutions to seek an agreement with the interpretation services with a view to paving the way for distance interpretation; considers that all categories of staff, including the language services, should be ready to adapt to evolving needs of the institutions, make the best use of ...[+++]available technologies and should approach the new challenges posed by enlargement in a constructive way;

The SOCAM wants to improve communications between the various communities through newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs, films, and basically any written, spoken or visual communications tools; provide live broadcasting of news programs on aboriginal issues pertaining to culture, the economy and community life in the language of each of those two nations; involve community radio stations in the business' organizational activities; provide technical support and training to local stations to ensure proper rebroadcasting of the network's programs; launch projects designed to improve communications and relationships between aboriginal peoples, between the two nations and between member communities by using new information tec ...[+++]hnologies and communications; operate a broadcasting network for 14 local member stations; establish cooperative and complementary ties with local community radio stations; organize adequate programming that reflects the Atikamekw and Innu culture; inform the locals of major news events that directly affect them; provide local radio stations and their staff with adequate equipment, tools and communication techniques; implement training programs; provide translation and interpretation services; design a television production centre; develop community access via Internet to new information technologies and communications technologies by implementing multimedia access centres for communities—and I could name 23 or 24 communities in Quebec—; implement communication services and infrastructures to support initiatives pertaining to health, learning and community access to cover social and community activities, a project that was in fact taken over by Industry Canada.

On behalf of the Internal Economy Committee and all senators, I should like to thank Jean Pierre Lavoie, Director of Services; Hélène Bouchard, Manager, Information Systems; Peter Feltham, Systems Officer; Paul Beaudoin, Manager, Materiel Management; Randy Greene, Technical Services Officer; Hélène Damphousse, Services Officer; and Leo Martin, Chief of Trades.

The Council TAKES NOTE that during the same debate the European Parliament signified its agreement to the Commission's interpretation of this text" (iii) Statement re first indent of Article 4, point (c), of the Directive dealing with conditional access to digital television and reading as follows: "Member States shall take all the necessary measures to ensure that the operators of conditional access services, irrespective of the means of transmission, who produce and market access services to digital television services: - offer to a ...[+++]ll broadcasters, on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis, technical services enabling the broadcasters' digitally-transmitted services to be received by viewers authorized by means of decoders administered by the service operators, and comply with Community competition law, in particular if a dominant position appears; "". The Council and the Commission state that the first indent of Article 4, point (c): - applies to any provider of conditional access services operating on a cable, terrestrial or satellite broadcasting network in relation to broadcasters who have access to that network under the national procedures in force and wish to benefit from that conditional access service; - does not seek to impose an obligation to offer to any broadcaster access for television services to packages or tiers of television services configured and/or administered by the provider, or services involving transparent distribution to subscribers; - only requires Member States to ensure that broadcasters may have access to conditional access services and that the obligation in Article 4, point (c) does not extend to the underlying network.