(da) to encourage partnerships between cultural institutions and the private sector in order to create new ways of funding digitisation of cultural material and to stimulate innovative uses of such material, while ensuring that public-private partnerships for digitisation are fair and balanced;

The changes are aimed, in particular, at the online accessibility of cultural material, improving the way in which this is managed and preserved digitally and promoting partnerships between cultural institutions and the private sector, in order to create new ways of funding the digitisation of cultural material and to foster its innovative use.

*Question No. 73 Ms. Dawn Black: With regards to private contracting for food services on Canadian Forces Wings, Bases or Stations: (a) were requests for proposals (RFPs) issued for private companies to create franchise services for food services on military bases at any time over the last two years; (b) if RFPs were issued, was Public Works and Government Services Canada involved during the tendering process and were the tenders administered in accordance with the Financial Administration Act; (c) what directorate, group or principal of the Department of National Defence (DND) administered or managed the tendering process; (d) if, an ...[+++]d when, contracts were awarded, what were the agreements for utility costs such as water, electricity, heat, and sewage with the winning bidders; (e) for government-owned infrastructure occupied by private sector franchises or companies, are there lease or rental agreements in place; (f) who are the owners of freestanding buildings on military wings and bases, and if the sole occupant and owner is a franchise or company, how are the property taxes assessed and paid, including all utilities for these buildings; (g) for government-owned facilities that are occupied either partially or solely by private sector franchises or companies, how are maintenance costs to building repairs or preventive maintenance schedules handled for the private sector occupants, and who performs the work; (h) are private sector franchises required to carry and show proof of insurance for personal liability, personal and property damages for these facilities; (i) are there service level agreements set up for emergency services such as police, fire and paramedics between franchises, companies and DND; (j) who are the contract managers for any contracts let for private franchises; (k) what is the length of each contract for all aspects of utility costs, leasing, and rental agreements; (l) has there been any loss in income to any base commander’s budget b ...

In order to provide rail passenger transport services, small private railway companies depend on renting traction elsewhere.

The Lintra Group, which includes the "Zeitzer Maschinen, Anlagen Geräte GmbH" (ZEMAG) (cranes; briquette plants; coal feeding plants for power stations), LandTechnik Schönebeck GmbH (LTS) (development, manufacture and distribution of agricultural vehicles, machines, plants and tools); ILKA MAFA Kältetechnik GmbH (refrigeration and air conditioning equipment); SKL Motoren- und Systembautechnik GmbH (manufacture, distribution and servicing of engines and other mechanical products); SKL Spezialapparatbau GmbH (manufacture and distribution of equipment for the chemical, food, building and power industries); Saxonia Edelmetalle GmbH (recycling raw materials) and the G ...[+++]othaer Fahrzeugwerk GmbH (trailers) was privatised in 1995 to a consortium of private investors headed by Dr. Hartmut Emans.

As a result these undertakings were on each occasion deprived of an important opportunity to market their products in the United Kingdom or to determine whether they should enter this market, while at the same time the dental profession in that country was denied the possibility of seeing the widest range of products exhibited.