Traduction de «scientific assessment » (Anglais → Français) :

The Minister of the Environment must respond to any scientific assessment made by the committee within 90 days, and the government must decide to act or not to act on the scientific assessment within nine months.

In view of that, and to ensure the existence of adequate resources for the scientific assessments relating to the pharmacovigilance procedures carried out at Union level, the Agency should remunerate the scientific assessment services provided by the rapporteurs and, where applicable, co-rapporteurs appointed by Member States as members of the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee referred to in point (aa) of Article 56(1) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 or, where relevant, provided by rapporteurs and co-rapporteurs in the coordination group referred to in Article 27 of Directive 2001/83/EC.

(Return tabled) Question No. 159 Mr. Sean Casey: With respect to the considered cuts to Environment Canada: (a) which specific departments and programs are affected, and what was the process taken to determine whether or not to make cuts to a specific department and program, (i) what, if any, Environment Canada Research Scientists were consulted regarding the considered cuts, (ii) what scientists outside of Environment Canada were consulted, (iii) for each department and program specified in (a), what is the number of current full-time, part-time, and contract scientific positions, (iv) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who have been given “workforce adjustment” letters, (v) the number of full-time, part-time, and ...[+++]contract scientists who are going to be moved out of their current “job function”, (vi) what, if any, consideration has been given to shutting-down the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN), and, if so, has the United States been consulted, as Canada has commitments under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, (vii) specify all programs run by a single scientist who has been given a “workforce adjustment” letter, and for each program identified, what, if any, concern was expressed regarding the ability of the program to continue, (viii) the process that will be taken to place scientists in appropriate research areas, (ix) what, if any, consideration has been given to the fact that many scientists are highly trained in very specialized fields, and that an appropriate replacement position may not be possible; (b) specify all national and international environmental commitments to which Canada is subject, including, but not limited to the Global Climate Observing System, the World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, which are mandated by the Montreal Protocol to occur at least every four years, and hosting the World Ozone and UV Data Centre, (i) wha ...

One can always use anecdotal experiences to arrive at conclusions but to do an adequate scientific assessment on a particular issue, one has to look at a statistically significant population of individuals and do a rigorous scientific assessment of those individuals to determine whether the hypothesis is correct.

Senator Segal: When you look at third-party scientific assessments relevant to your considerations of an application, do you evaluate the scientific assessment that come from academies of science or research organizations in places like China and India on their merits as you would from any other foreign source, or do you have some way of scoring whether these institutions have the same appropriate scientific depth and analytical capacity in making their assessments as you expect from others you assess as part of your grant application process?

To quickly outline what is contained in the bill, the species at risk act provides for independent scientific assessments of wildlife species by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, COSEWIC; an accountable listing process for species based on that scientific assessment; and a comprehensive process for planning and implementing species recovery.