Translation of "Comité consultatif sur la recherche touchant la fusion " (French → English) :

- propose that the two existing advisory committees ACSHH and SHCMOEI (the Advisory Committee on Safety, Hygiene and Health Protection at Work and the Safety and Health Commission for the Mining and Other Extractive Industries) be merged into a single Advisory Committee on health and safety at work;

(1) Whereas new information has been published in the United Kingdom further supporting the hypothesis that exposure to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent is linked to the new variant of Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD) in humans; whereas on 16 September 1997 the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) of the United Kingdom concluded that recent research provided compelling new evidence that the agent which causes BSE is identical to the agent which causes the new variant of CJD in humans; whereas on 18 Sept ...[+++]ember 1997 the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) concluded that the BSE agent should now be classified as a human pathogen;

Based on this bill and what is in the main estimates, this department is responsible for a variety of quasi and independent agencies and tribunals which include the following: the office of the federal chief negotiator, internal trade negotiations; the office of the chief scientist; the Canadian aboriginal economic development program; Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre; the Defence industry productivity program; the Canada scholarships program; the Information Highway Advisory Council; the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology; the Industrial research assistance program; the remnants of Investment Canada; ...[+++] the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research Industry and Education, commonly known as CANARIE; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; the Federal Office of the Regional Development-Quebec, which requires an order in council to pass these responsibilities to yet another minister, the Minister of Finance; regional development in northern Ontario under FEDNOR; the network of centres of excellence, the National Research Council; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; the Standards Council of Canada; the Canadian Space Agency; the Communications Research Centre; Statistics Canada; Emergency Preparedness Canada; the Bureau of Competition; the Copyright Board of Canada; and more.

The amended rules also provided for: the creation of a new standing committee from what was formerly a standing joint committee; [114] the combination of two standing committees into one; [115] a provision for two Vice-Chairs, rather than one, per committee; [116] a new provision with respect to the timing of the election of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Liaison Committee; [117] a new provision with respect to printing an appendix to a committee report; [118] changes to the make-up of the Panel of Chairs (pursuant to the new en ...[+++]velope system) with respect to legislative committees; [119] changes to the number and permanency of members [120] and to the powers [121] of legislative committees; changes to priority of legislative and standing committees to meet; [122] and, finally, changes with respect to broadcasting of committee proceedings.

13. EMPHASISES the benefits of effective coordination between different policy sectors which have an influence on forestry, and of coordination at Community level through, inter alia, the Standing Forestry Committee ( ), the Consultative Committee on Forests ( ) and the Consultative Committee on Forestry and Forestry based industry ( ), making use of these committees as ad-hoc consultation fora providing expertises for all forestry-related activities in the framework of existing Community policies such as CAP and Rural Development, En ...[+++]vironment, Trade, Research, Internal Market, Research, Industry, Development Cooperation and Energy policies; and CALLS on the Commission to make a report to the Council as soon as possible on how to improve coordination;

JRC Joint Research Centre CREST Scientific and Technical Research Committee IRDAC Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee CODEST Committee for the European Development of Science and Technology