Furthermore, the orders from economic sectors for printed advertising material decreased sharply in the various sectors, due to budget cuts in printing and publishing.

Furthermore, the orders from economic sectors for printed advertising material decreased sharply in the various sectors, due to budget cuts in printing and publishing.

The objective of the directive before us today was to publish the technical specifications for interoperability (TSIs) for six sub-systems – Maintenance, Infrastructure, Energy, Rolling Stock, Operation and Control-Command – beginning the work of standardising components in collaboration with CEN, Cenelec and ETSI, and establishing in each Member State a list of notified bodies instructed to assess the conformity of the components produced by the relevant industries.

More specifically, Investment Canada will normally seek to obtain one or more commitments from the foreign investor, such as the commitment to support Canadian authors, in particular by establishing joint ventures with Canadian-controlled publishers so that the Canadian authors whom they publish have access to new national and international markets; the commitment to support the book distribution infrastructure, for example by distributing imported titles through an exclusive Canadian-controlled publisher/distributor; by maintaining in Canada fully integrated warehousing and fulfilment operations for recent publications and back-list items; by participating actively in co-operative projects with the industry on marketing, distribution an ...[+++]d order fulfilment operations (1620) Contractual access to the company's marketing and distribution infrastructure in Canada or its international network by Canadian-controlled publishers whose interests are compatible; Financial and professional assistance to institutions that offer teaching and research programs in the publishing field.

I'll remind you of those at this time, because we'll be watching very closely and hopefully to see that these in fact are followed through with: $15 million a year for five years for loan guarantees for multimedia productions; $15 million a year for four years for publishing support through the soon-to-be-created Canadian Publishing Development Corporation; $10 million to commission works of art for the new millennium; and reinforcement of the ability of our cultural sector to market its products internationally, including giving to a proposed trade promotion agency a special mandate to market Canadian cultural and educational product ...[+++]s and services.