There clearly is censorship of the Internet, but Iranian web bloggers, Iranian youth, are among the most sophisticated users of the Internet and have found all sorts of ways of avoiding these filters.

Senator Hervieux-Payette: Since we are discussing the issue of national security, I would like to point out to the minister that the Auditor General found that some government officials tried to circumvent security procedures in order to reduce costs and avoid delays in a major DND project.

There is a particular need for the Community to continue its efforts in support of the application of effective safeguards of nuclear material in third countries, building on its own safeguard activities within the European Union.

Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely to coordinate activities in the Member States to regulate and supervise safety and to investigate accidents and to establish at Community level common safety targets, common safety methods, common safety indicators and common requirements of safety certificates, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely to coordinate activities in the Member States to regulate and supervise safety and to investigate accidents and to establish at Community level common safety targets, common safety methods, common safety indicators and common requirements of safety certificates, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

In fact WIPO treaties require both: measures that prohibit acts of circumvention, including prohibiting act of access control circumvention, and measures that prohibit providing circumvention services and trafficking in circumvention tools.