Translation of "Communication vers le bas " (French → English) :

Just a tiny sampling of the Committee’s continued concerns: municipalities get initial grants for emergency planning but little in the way of follow-up money to maintain or improve their readiness; there is no centralized system of funneling “lessons learned’ and “best practices” to first responders who will have to deal with emergencies on the front lines; there is still no system that would force the communications industry to keep citizens informed during emergencies; overall emergency planning (and funding) is “top-down” – federal and provincial bureaucrats issue edicts to municipalities to prepare for emergencies without listenin ...[+++]g to first responders . and so on.There are at least a score of major issues that deserve serious (and timely) attention.

The communication is just an effective system, top-bottom, as we were saying, with the policy committee to the grassroots worker.

As the Netherlands pointed out when the Common Position was drawn up, the air quality in our country is strongly influenced by transboundary developments and will therefore benefit enormously from an effective European approach.

If I follow your reasoning—and please correct me if I am wrong—in certain provinces, the gap could be, give or take, about 10 or 12%, whereas in other provinces, the gap would not exceed, give or take, 3%.

The existence of a very low speed communication channel (in the order of 500 bits per second) can also be used to transmit commercial information from service centres to users.

In this respect, the Commission concluded that the operation will not lead to any restriction of competition, because it is not likely that the creation of the joint venture in the Netherlands would have the object or effect for the parent companies to co-ordinate their competitive behaviour on other markets closely related to the joint venture markets.