Over the coming planning period we will see a number of deliverables in this area, and I'll list a number of examples: completion and publication of a report on the health of our atmosphere—this is a companion report to one you've seen before called Health of our Soils; transfer of the Plant Gene Resources Centre to Saskatoon; registration of a high-protein soybean variety for eastern Canada with significant yield to improvement; registration of prairie spring wheat with significant improvement in protein content; development of new anaerobic digestion technology to handle manure in an environmentally sustainable manner; development ...[+++] of technologies to improve ruminant nutrition—this again has efficiency and waste reduction objectives; development of processes for extracting food or feed additives from various agricultural products; increased access to safe, reliable water supplies for rural areas; maintenance of biological diversity through sustainable management of federally controlled and private range lands; development of a prairie-wide assessment for land-based issues facing the agriculture and agrifood sector; implementation of the national soil and water conservation program; implementation of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's biodiversity strategy; determination of the environmental sustainability of the departmental policies and programs; periodic assessment and reporting of the progress in implementing the department's sustainable development strategy, which is essentially the implementation of the action plan under that strategy; and development and implementation of the department's hog environmental management strategy, HEMS.

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AE. whereas the objective of the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment Directive , Article 3 of which explicitly covers tourism and urbanisation, is to provide for a high level of protection of the environment and to contribute to the integration of environmental considerations into the preparation and adoption of plans and programmes with a view to promoting sustainable development; and whereas the Water Framework Directive requires Member States to prevent the deterioration of their waters and to promote the sustainable use of their fresh water resources,

Is the Commission planning to promote technical meetings on other aspects of the Spanish National Hydrological Plan, and in particular: the environmental as well as the socio-economic impact of the Ebro water transfer on the Mediterranean coast (impact on other river basins such as the Júcar, the Segura and the Almería Province; impact on urban/tourism development); the price of the transferred water; the impact on traditional agriculture; the energy costs of the water transfer, its effects on climate protection policy, as well as possible alternative solutions to water transfer with lower energy costs?

Is the Commission planning to promote technical meetings on other aspects of the Spanish National Hydrological Plan, and in particular: the environmental as well as the socio-economic impact of the Ebro water transfer on the Mediterranean coast (impact on other river basins such as the Júcar, the Segura and the Almería Province; impact on urban/tourism development); the price of the transferred water; the impact on traditional agriculture; the energy costs of the water transfer, its effects on climate protection policy, as well as possible alternative solutions to water transfer with lower energy costs?

In addition, the Bank, in conjunction with its partners in the Marseille Centre for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), is presenting at the World Water Forum studies on the following topics which it has co-sponsored with UNEP (Blue Plan), AfD and the World Bank: the re-use of treated wastewater, the cost of environmental damage and green growth in the Mediterranean.