Traduction de «Groupe d'experts des coûts et tarifs » (Français → Anglais) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 826 Ms. Olivia Chow: With regard to government resources allocated to research into sideguards on trucks: (a) listed annually for fiscal years 2006 to 2012, what are the resources allocated for researching, collecting, analyzing and evaluating data, broken down by (i) hours allocated, (ii) expenditures, including but not limited to personnel costs, fees, and research investments; (b) what are the (i) rationale, (ii) costs, (iii) planning and exact timelines for Phase II and Phase III of the National Research Council-conducted research work, with specific details about completion ...[+++]dates of the research work for each phase, draft completion dates, report approval and planned and actual publication dates; (c) what are the planned and budgeted time and resource allocation for truck-sideguard-related research work for the fiscal years 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015, including information on the funding source(s) or, in the case of an absence of detailed planning, the rationale and decision-making process; (d) what are the planning and decision-making processes for truck-sideguard-related research and policy work in terms of (i) involved entities, including but not limited to Transport Canada, internal and external government institutions, departments, groups, sub-groups, and individuals, (ii) projected and actual timelines, (iii) involvement of external entities including consultants, experts, research organizations, lawyers, lobbyists, industry associations, companies and civic groups and individuals, broken down by name, dates of involvement, duration of involvement, nature and scope of involvement, involvement in outcomes and results; and (e) from 2006 to the present, who are the external entities involved in any part of the research or decision-making process, including consultants, experts, research organizations, lawyers, lobbyists, industry associations, companies and civic groups and other individuals, broken down b ...

(Return tabled) Question No. 611 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to the government’s plans for resource development, as described in the section entitled “Responsible Resource Development” in Chapter 3.2 of Budget 2012: (a) what are all examples of federal environmental laws that are stronger than provincial laws and how will the proposed legislative changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) affect the assessment of environmental impacts of industrial projects that cross provincial borders; (b) what research, action, or investment has the government undertaken to study impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impac ...[+++]ts, (iii) risk mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (c) what briefing notes, memos, or any other documentation, including, for each, the details of its findings and recommendations, have been provided to the Prime Minister, Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of the Environment, their respective Parliamentary Secretaries, their respective Deputy Ministers, and their respective staff members, regarding impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impacts, (iii) mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (d) will the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA give any consideration to (i) measuring negative impacts of development, (ii) managing negative impacts of development; (e) by what date will the government bring forth new “legislation to streamline the review process for major economic projects” (Budget 2012, p. 89); (f) what are the projected costs of changes to the CEAA for each province and territory; (g) what assessments of the adequacy of the environmental assessment process in each province and territory have been conducted, (i) what were the dates of any such assessments, (ii) what wer ...

In order to provide access for passengers to the air transport network and, in particular, to small and medium sized airports as well as to larger airports at an acceptable cost, Member States should be able to apply the same unit rate for terminal services charges at all airports served by the same air traffic service provider, or in several groups of such airports, as the case may be, in order to cover the total costs of terminal service ...[+++]s.

The group will identify any legal, administrative or other obstacles that customers encounter when opening a bank account cross-border or switching banks both at domestic and cross-border level, such as the cost of opening, maintaining and closing a bank account, direct switching costs, and others.

The Commission has set up a high-level group and a group of government experts to establish a method of estimating infrastructure, environmental, accident and congestion costs, and appropriate ways of charging for them in compliance with the subsidiarity principle.

The main lines of action proposed are as follows : - phase complete opening of the terminal equipment market to competition ; - substantial opening of the telecommunications services market to competition with the exception, at this stage, of a limited number of basic services considered essential to satisfy current public service goals ; - the right to cross-frontier provision of services in the Community ; - continuation of exclusive or special rights for the telecommunications administrations (public or private carriers) regarding provision and operation of the network infrastructure, and recognition of the central role of telecommunications administrations (public or private carriers) in the establishment of future generations of inf ...[+++]rastructures ; - clear separation of the regulatory and operational functions of publics or private undertakings managing networks ; - opening-up of the market in satellite ground stations in so far as such equipement should be assimilated with telecommunications terminals rather than infrastructure ; - recognition of the fact that telecommunications tariffs should follow cost trends ; - development of a consensus by both sides of industry to smooth the transitions and take maximum advantage of the development of networks and services to create new jobs ; - fastening of economic development and reduction of the isolation of the outlying regions of the Community through telecommunications ; - establishment of common positions in the various international bodies (GATT, ITU, etc) ; - finally, as regards standardization, the Commission recommends the creation of a European Standards Institute : a small core team bringing together experts from public and private network operators and experts seconded by the industry would substantially accelerate the elaboration of the standards and technical specifications indispensable for an open and competitive market environment and the development of "made in Europe" Information Technolog ...