Translation of "Différentiel de coût de la vie " (French → English) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 849 Hon. Stéphane Dion: With regard to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, since the beginning of Canada's participation: (a) what are the criteria (operational requirements, contractual conditions, etc) on which the government is selecting the F-35s as a replacement for the CF-18s; (b) when and by whom were those criteria determined; (c) what are the relevant studies which were conducted prior to determining those criteria, specifying the (i) dates, (ii) names of the studies, (iii) names of individuals requesting the studies, (iv) authors of the studies, (v) names of the individuals presented with the results; (d) before those criteria were determined, on the basis of what information did the government ...[+++]evaluate that the F-35 could satisfy Canada's needs; (e) since the beginning of Canada's participation in the JSF program, what were all the studies conducted that evaluated different fighter planes in relation to Canada's needs, specifying the (i) dates, (ii) names of the studies, (iii) names of individuals requesting the studies, (iv) authors of the studies, (v) studies which were used to evaluate the planes, (vi) names of the individuals who determined those criteria, (vii) planes which were considered in the study, (viii) names of the individuals presented with the results; (f) what is the operational availability of a fleet of 65 fighter jets; (g) what effect will a reduction in Canada's fleet of fighter jets have on operational capability, on Canada's ability to play its role within the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and on the distribution of fighter jets across Canada's military bases; (h) how did the government determine that Canadian Forces needed 65 planes; (i) what is the formula used to determine the number of planes Canada should buy and who is the author of that formula; (j) for each of the variables in that formula, how was the value of that variable determined, specifying by whom, based on ...

Telephone charges continue to be a large component of operational costs in certain sectors and, although they have continued to decline, cost differentials remain wide.

They cited labour cost differentials and the quality of the workforce as major factors.

(11) Considering, on the one hand, the importance of the internalisation of external, particularly environmental, costs, acknowledged both in the White Paper "European transport policy for 2010: time to decide" and in the conclusions of the Göteborg European Council, and on the other hand, the speed at which the transport market is changing, it should be possible to take account of future work on developing methods to internalise external costs, regularly evaluate the development of external cost ...[+++]differentials and propose any necessary adjustment to the indicative amount of financial assistance accordingly.

Consequently, an applicant resident in a high cost country, whose resources would satisfy the financial criteria in the State where he resides, but who is above the ceiling of the (low-cost) State where the procedure is to take place, will be, for this reason, disentitled to legal aid.

Nevertheless, the Commission has recommended the Swedish authorities to modify the aid so that it is possible to monitor the production costs differential of bioethanol and fossil fuels during the first five years of the exemption period as well as during any possible extension period so that it will be possible to react to changes of this differential, if necessary, by reducing the tax exemption so that State aid will not be granted to the company in excess of the extra production costs it incurs in producing bioethanol in comparison ...[+++] to the production costs of fossil fuels.