Translation of "gap site " (English → French) :

This significant gap in the compliance with the key obligations under the Habitats Directive prevents the sound protection and management of the sites and constitutes a major threat to an appropriate functioning and the coherence of the Natura 2000 network as a whole.

Pursuant to the Committee’s Twenty-Four Hour Notice Motion adopted Wednesday, February 28, 2001, Peter Stoffer gave notice of motion, - That, in conjunction with any travel under Mr. Cummins’s motion for a hearing in Vancouver, the Committee visit potential aquaculture sites in the Broughton Archipelago and hear evidence on the current and likely impacts of the British Columbia government’s lifting of its moratorium on the authorization of new aquaculture sites, and that the Committee hear evidence from DFO officials on its preparedness to protect wild stocks and habitat with specific reference to the Auditor General’s report’s findings of si ...[+++]gnificant gaps between DFO’s ability to protect stocks and habitat and the requisite protection.

These are among the multitude of questions we are addressing, and this is where, given the large number of academic and private sites for research to take place in Canada, we can very nicely transition that gap that we may have begun to see eroded to offshore sites coming back here, because the results that take place within the Canadian health care system are respected around the world as being representative of what would take place in other health care systems.

With regard to (a), the following four publicly available studies on helicopter night flights to oil facilities, related to the safety of day flights versus night flights in transporting employees to and from the offshore work site, have been conducted and can be found on the C-NLOPB’s web site: report by SMS Aviation Safety Inc. in support of the OHSI implementation team, entitled “Operational Safety Risk Analysis of Night Helicopter Transport Operations in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Industry”, at www.cnlopb.nl.ca/pdfs/ohsi/osrareport.pdf; operators’ report, entitled “Return to Night Passenger Transport Operations”, ...[+++]at www.cnlopb.nl.ca/pdfs/ohsi/nightpassengerupdate.pdf; “Level of Service Requirements for First Response Helicopters”, at www.cnlopb.nl.ca/pdfs/ohsi/levofserv.pdf; and “Level of Service Analysis Gap”, by Cougar Helicopters, at www.cnlopb.nl.ca/pdfs/ohsi/losanalysis.pdf.

The second, from the NDP, is that in conjunction with any travel under Mr. Cummins' motion for a hearing in Vancouver, the committee visit potential aquaculture sites in the Broughton Archipelago and hear evidence on the current and likely impacts of the British Columbia government's lifting of its moratorium on the authorization of new aquaculture sites; and that the committee hear evidence from DFO officials on its preparedness to protect wild stocks and habitat, with specific reference to the Auditor General's report's findings of significant gaps between D ...[+++]FO's ability to protect stocks and habitat and requisite protection.

However, comparison with the most up-to-date scientific inventory of Spanish important bird areas (which identifies 391 sites covering 158 625 square kilometers) shows that an important gaps remain, with a significant number of key sites still to be designated.