Translation of "Comité canadien de protection des forêts contre le feu " (French → English) :

In its opinion of 6 and 7 March 2003 the Scientific Steering Committee recommended reinforced protection of animal and public health in the Community from the risk posed by chronic wasting disease in cervids in Canada and the United States of America.

According to the ESC, the main thrust of the EU's forestry strategy should be to create the necessary conditions for the development of environmentally compatible forestry. This would allow sustainable exploitation of the wide range of possibilities afforded by forests (production of timber, cork and resin, berries, mushrooms, game, etc., protection of the environment and recreation), while at the same time helping to protect forests against pollution and through effective ...[+++] deployment of resources. Such a strategy should also ensure that the importance of preserving biodiversity is borne in mind when developing policies with only an indirect bearing on the forestry sector.

This has often been used to push forward international processes such as Environment for Europe, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, the WTO Committee on trade and Environment, the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests, the Global Plan of Action on Land-based Sources of Marine Pollution (Washington GPA), or the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS).

Thus Member States should endeavour to ensure sustainable forestry management on a national basis; 12. INTEND to give priority to a fast implementation and follow-up of the resolutions adopted at the Ministerial Conference on Protection of Forests in Europe (Helsinki, June 1993); 13. WELCOME the draft Council Regulation on operations to promote tropical forests, which will enable the Community to play a more active role within th ...[+++]e field of tropical forestry on a sustainable basis and in particular promote Community policies within this field; 14. REAFFIRM the undertaking of the Community and its Member States to participate actively in the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Convention on Desertification which is due to be opened for signature in Paris in June 1994; 15. UNDERLINE the fact that the effective use of financial resources and their delivery are decisive for meeting the environmental goals set at the UNCED Conference and WELCOME that the Development Council on 25 May confirmed that following the global financial commitment of ECU 3 billion made in Rio, the Community and its Member States would provide an initial tranche of ECU 600 million in 1993 for specific projects and programmes in key Agenda 21 sectors; 16. ACKNOWLEDGE in this respect the important role of the international and regional financial institutions in enabling the developing countries to carry out the decisions of UNCED, and CALL UPON the international financial institutions to give urgent priority to the follow-up to UNCED; 17. They further ACCENTUATE the special importance of the Global Environment Facility and STRONGLY SUPPORT the current process of replenishment and the restructuring of the Facility before 31 December 1993 into an effective and transparent body with a balanced and equitable representation of all countries, in order to make it available as the permanent financial mechanism for the Climate Change and Biodiversity Conventions, an ...

Following their approval by the EDF Committee, the Commission has decided to finance the projects listed below: All ACP: ECU 20m - AIDS control programme Tanzania: ECU 30m - Support for structural adjustment programme Tanzania, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda: ECU 33m - Railway restructuring project Togo: ECU 17m - Support for structural adjustment programme Nigeria: ECU 16.5m - Cross River State National Park Jamaica: ECU 13.5m - Road rehabilitation Burundi: ECU 12m - Support for structural adjustment programme Mauritius: ECU 5.7m - Pamplemousses-Grand Bay road Equatorial Guinea: ECU 4.5m - Rural development programme for the south-east Botswana: ECU 3m - ...[+++] Forestry protection Jamaica: ECU 1.7m - Bee-keeping development project Angola: ECU 1m - Support for the democratization process Swaziland: ECU 0.95m - Support to smallholders Gambia: ECU 0.8m - Training programme Gabon: ECU 0.485m - Population census. - - - All ACP ECU 20 000 000 AIDS Control Programme 7th EDF Grant This programme is a continuation of the campaign started in 1987, for which ECU 39 million has already been granted.

The committee considered the following statutory instruments: SOR/98-217 - Regulations Amending the Gasoline Regulations; SOR/99-437 - Regulations Amending the Exclusion List Regulations; SOR-2000-148 - Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (1115-Quizalofopethyl); SOR/95-531 - Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) 1995-1; SOR/96-549 - Yukon Timber Regulations, amendment; SOR/99-472 - Order Amending Schedule I to the Hazardous Products Act (Miscellaneous Program); SOR/2000-98 - Order Amending the Domestic Substances List and the Non-domestic Substances List; SOR/2001-76 - Regulations Ame ...[+++]nding the Canadian Forces Superannuation Regulations; SOR/2001-120 - Regulations Amending the National Energy Board Act Part VI (Oil and Gas) Regulations (Miscellaneous Program); SOR/2001-163 - Regulations Amending the Yukon Forest Protection Regulations; and SOR/2001-181 - Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (907 - Linguistic Harmonization).