staple theory [ staples theory ]

staple convenience products

staple | staple goods | staple products

Personnel and Organisation Department

Territorial Resource Base Mapping Information System

Senior Human Resources Consultant

quota-based institution

all-financial-resources concept

With respect to the issue of an appropriate budget, if we are to be able to replace the major platforms and capabilities that we have now, we would probably require an annual increase in the capital budget that is between $1 billion and $1.2 billion.

Innis's book laid the foundation for what we have come to know as the " staples theory" of Canadian development.

9. Calls on the Commission to propose, by the end of 2012, a new Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) policy framework, establishing a process for identifying the priority products or services which contribute the most to the key global consumption areas (water, land, materials and carbon), in line with the consumption indicators laid down in the Resource Efficiency Roadmap; this should be accompanied by legislative proposals addressing priority products and services with the relevant tools, including mechanisms that can improve supply chain resource efficiency and the possibility of setting minimum requirements or ...[+++]best performance benchmarks through implementing measures;

26. Calls for stronger requirements on Green Public Procurement (GPP) for products and services that have significant environmental impacts and contribute the most to consumption of key global resources (water, land, materials and carbon), as laid down in the Resource Efficiency Roadmap; urges the Commission to assess where GPP could be linked to EU-funded projects; calls for efforts to promote joint procurement and networks of public procurement officers in support of GPP by the end of this year, on the understanding that this must not create a competitive disadvantage for public enterprises;