(Return tabled) Question No. 30 Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia: —With regard to the installation of cell phone communications towers and the electro-magnetic fields and radio-frequency radiation they emit: (a) when was a federal permit awarded to install a cell phone tower at Saint-Joachim church located at 2 Saint-Anne, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, H9S 4P5; (b) who is the service provider who applied for and was awarded the permit; (c) what justification was given by the service provider for requiring a cell phone tower permit for that particular location; (d) what are the technical specifications of the cell phone tower for which a permit was a ...[+++]warded; (e) what limits or conditions, if any, were attached to the permit; (f) do technical specifications and other permit conditions vary according to the nature of the surrounding environment, specifically as regards to whether schools, hospitals, or residential units are located in the vicinity; (g) what requirements were placed on the City of Pointe-Claire in regards to consulting local residents before a federal permit was awarded for the Saint-Joachim cell phone tower, and were these general requirements applicable to all municipalities in Canada or were all or some conditions specific to this particular tower; (h) how many other permits have been awarded in the past for installation of cell phone towers in Pointe-Claire, where are these located, and who are the providers who operate the towers; (i) what evidence has the government used to establish that cell phone towers are not a threat to human health generally and to the health of vulnerable populations like children specifically; (j) in establishing allowable risks associated with cell phone towers does the government apply a maximum acceptable threshold of risk that incorporates the precautionary principle as laid out in the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (signed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) and, if not, wha ...

78. Welcomes the Commission's transparency initiative and expects it to lead to practical action and legislative initiatives which in turn result in transparency in the use and management of EU funds; expects Member States to support and complement this important initiative by ensuring that they in turn are fully transparent in their use of EU funds;

78. Welcomes the Commission's transparency initiative and expects it to lead to practical action and legislative initiatives which in turn result in transparency in the use and management of EU funds; expects Member States to support and complement this important initiative by ensuring that they in turn are fully transparent in their use of EU funds;

Mention was made of Community loans, the establishment of a specific fund based on adding a few cents to the current amounts of excise duty on motor fuels, a new approach to infrastructure charging, the establishment, for certain extremely costly major projects of arrangements for levying charges on another mode of transport (roads) to finance infrastructures in other modes (railways), and private capital, either through privatisation or by setting up public-private partnerships, etc.

The Commission's objective of the third round for trade issues is to enter into substantive discussions with regard to all aspects of the agenda and to make considerable progress so as to allow for the exchange of working texts for negotiations of the majority of the issues at the fourth round during the first semester of 2001.

Having said this, we are scheduled to meet for just two days a year, so it is essential that we use this time for in-depth exchanges, by communicating with one another constructively and succinctly, so that members all have a chance to express their views in turn and the result of our discussions represents a genuine contribution to our intellectual capital.