We are introducing life cycle materiel management; technical business management; standardized methodologies for project, quality, and risk management; and lastly, ensuring a focus on knowledge management, which is core to the success of this strategy. A team of officials is working on a strategy at the headquarters; each region is fully involved in this initiative.

This could relate to the distribution and sale of Canadian products; marketing; expenditure in the promotion of Canadian products; employment with respect to the number of Canadians employed in the Canadian business; development, which relates to research, technology, and know-how; management in terms of whether the head office of the business will be in Canada, Canadians will be on the board of directors, or Canadian managers will be running the business; ownership, or whether there will be partnerships with Canadians; capital expenditures, or whether the investor will upgrade the Canadian business facilities in Canada; operations; production; finance; and a number of other areas in relation ...[+++] to potential undertakings.

Dr. Jim Till: The knowledge management issue is a crucial one, not only because there's a lot more information to share, but because we're now increasingly aware that that information has to be turned into knowledge, and that knowledge has to be turned into action.

4. Member States may regulate whether and to what extent administration by collecting societies of the right to obtain an equitable remuneration may be imposed, as well as the question from whom this remuneration may be claimed or collected.

Nevertheless, a number of anomalies, weaknesses and shortcomings were noted: - the method chosen for recruiting staff from the Member States was unsatisfactory (46-47): staff allocated to posts were appointed by the Member States without the Administrator being consulted, which led to coordination problems. The fact that the EU team worked well was more a matter of chance than a consequence of the procedure adopted; - as regards financial management and control within the EUAM, although relatively serious weaknesses were detected they had not impeded the effectiveness of the EUAM (69-79); - the central decision-making and management st ...[+++]ructure, namely the Member State holding the Presidency of the Council assisted by the advisory working group and collaborating with the Commission, is too diffuse to be effective (55-68).

The bill requires that the waste management organization examine three options: deep geological disposal, onsite storage or central long term storage.