13. Calls on the Council to continue to review sanctions against specific human rights benchmarks that should include the following: the release of political prisoners and all other persons arbitrarily detained for exercising their basic human rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly; the provision of an accurate official account of the numbers, whereabouts and conditions of individuals killed, arrested and/or detained by the security forces, including in the recent crackdown; a cessation of military attacks on civilians; and a transition to democr ...[+++]acy; calls also on the Council to consider further targeted sanctions, such as a complete ban on new investment, a ban on the provision of insurance services for investment in Burma, and an embargo on trade in key commodities that provide significant revenue to the military government;

(1750) Mr. Tim Meisner: It's a fixed fee per transit.

L. whereas the UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur for Burma, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, has said that the Burmese regime is stifling any hope of democratic transition by arresting and jailing political and ethnic opposition leaders,

In particular, we confirm that there shall be freedom of such transit, and that the goods in such transit shall not be subject to unnecessary delays or restrictions and shall be exempt from customs duties and transit duties or other charges related to transit, except charges for transportation or those commensurate with administrative expenses entailed by transit or with the costs of services rendered and that treatment no less favourable than that which would have been accorded to such goods had they been transported without transiti ...[+++]ng through the EU territory shall be accorded to goods in transit to and from Kaliningrad region, as it has to be in general for all trade in goods between the EU and Russia.

the additional ground for refusal based on fundamental rights - the Council looked at whether an uneven implementation of the Framework Decision on this point could entail a discrimination in respect of the persons arrested on the basis of an European arrest warrant depending on whether or not the judge of the executing state has to review the consistency of the European arrest warrant with fundamental rights, which could run counter to the principle of mutual recognition; the additional ground for refusal based on political reasons - the question examined was whether a ground of non-recognition as regards political reasons for issuing ...[+++]an European arrest warrant would go beyond the Framework Decision; designation of the Ministry of Justice as executing authority - the Council examined whether that designation interfered with the principle on which the European arrest warrant was based since it had been conceived as being entirely judicial, with the guarantees of judicial independence and freedom from political influence that follow; application "ratione temporis" of the Framework Decision - the Council examined how to resolve the fact that the legislation of some Member States was incompatible and that certain European arrest warrants or extradition requests could not be issued or executed.

Although the order was not required to be published, given that the department was already publishing the order with the fees, and that the response organizations had informed us that they would be establishing fees in accordance with that order, and given that the sequence contemplated in the Canada Shipping Act was respected, it was our view that by publishing the order and fees, we were publishing a copy of the list of the fees as required by the CSA.