Just recently it was announced that Barrie and Simcoe-Muskoka cancer patients will soon have access to Canada's first portable radiation unit at our local hospital.

50. Is convinced that liberalisation of the markets in the SEMCs would primarily benefit large mechanised farms, which already benefit in full from the compensation fund system; calls on the institutional players of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to improve access to loans for small-scale producers and to develop a system for weighting aid towards small farmers, who constitute the overwhelming majority of the farming population of these countries and who will be the first to suffer from competition with the EU and, in the long run, to replace the old system of compensation and aid with a new system of support for sustainable farming ...[+++] and small-scale food processing industry investments in order to strengthen the competitiveness of rural economies through diversification, local marketing and the production of specific qualities;

20. Is convinced that liberalisation of the markets in the SEMC would primarily benefit large mechanised farms, which already benefit in full from the compensation fund system; calls on the institutional players of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to improve access to loans for small-scale producers and to develop a system for weighting aid towards small farmers, who constitute the overwhelming majority of the farming population of these countries and who will be the first to suffer from competition with the European Union and, in the long run, to replace the old system of compensation and aid with a new system of support for sustaina ...[+++]ble farming and small-scale food processing industry investments in order to strengthen the competitiveness of rural economies through diversification, local marketing and the production of specific qualities.

50. Is convinced that liberalisation of the markets in the SEMC would primarily benefit large mechanised farms, which already benefit in full from the compensation fund system; calls on the institutional players of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to improve access to loans for small-scale producers and to develop a system for weighting aid towards small farmers, who constitute the overwhelming majority of the farming population of these countries and who will be the first to suffer from competition with the European Union and, in the long run, to replace the old system of compensation and aid with a new system of support for sustaina ...[+++]ble farming and small-scale food processing industry investments in order to strengthen the competitiveness of rural economies through diversification, local marketing and the production of specific qualities;

In addition, Ulrike Rodust advocates the direct involvement of regional and local authorities in the development of the new strategy, since their responsibilities with regard to, for example, aid, public transport, the employment market, the service sector and uniform access to and use of modern information and communication technologies are highly relevant to the internal market.

It was to end bio-piracy that the Organisation of African Unity adopted a model law on community rights and on the control of access to biological resources.