Translation of "Stratégie de recherche en profondeur d'abord " (French → English) :

To implement that strategy, a radical restructuring of fusion-related work in the Union, including governance, funding and management, shall be carried out to ensure a shift of emphasis from pure research to designing, building and operating future facilities such as ITER, DEMO and beyond.

Question No. 468 Mr. Rodger Cuzner: With regard to the Canada First Defence Strategy: (a) does the strategy include (i) acquisition of three strategic air transport aircraft and stationing them at CFB Trenton, (ii) doubling the size of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), (iii) acquisition of three armed naval heavy icebreakers, and stationing them in the area of Iqaluit, (iv) building a new civilian-military deepwater docking facility to accommodate the three armed naval heavy icebreakers mentioned in subquestion (iii), (v) establishing a new underwater sensor system, (vi) building a new army training centre in the area of Camb ...[+++]ridge Bay, (vii) stationing new long-range unmanned aerial vehicle squadrons at both CFB Goose Bay and CFB Comox, (viii) stationing new fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft in Yellowknife, (ix) increasing the size of the Canadian Rangers by 500, (x) establishing a 650-member regular forces battalion at CFB Comox, CFB Goose Bay, CFB Trenton, and CFB Bagotville respectively, (xi) adding 1,000 regular force and 750 reserve force personnel to the army in Quebec, (xii) establishing a territorial defence unit in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, St. John's, Halifax and the Niagara-Windsor corridor respectively, (xiii) recruiting 1,000 regular force personnel for the purpose of improving and enlarging the Atlantic fleet, (xiv) increasing the number of personnel in CFB Gagetown, (xv) stationing new aircraft and personnel at CFB Greenwood, (xvi) increasing the numbers of Pacific navy regular force personnel by about 500, (xvii) deploying new fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft at CFB Comox and CFB Winnipeg, (xviii) upgrading fighter aircraft at CFB Cold Lake; (b) what is the rationale for the inclusion or exclusion, from the Canada First Defence Strategy, of each of the items mentioned in subquestions (a)(i) to (a)(xviii); and (c) for each item mentioned in subquestions (a)(i) to (a ...

(Return tabled) Question No. 460 Mr. Todd Russell: With regard to Canada's First Defence Strategy: (a) which of the following are a part of the strategy, (i) acquisition of three strategic air transport aircraft, and stationing them at CFB Trenton, (ii) doubling the size of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), (iii) acquisition of three armed naval heavy icebreakers, and stationing them in the area of Iqaluit, (iv) building a new civilian-military deepwater docking facility to accommodate the three armed naval heavy icebreakers, (v) establishing a new underwater sensor system, (vi) building a new army training centre in the area ...[+++] of Cambridge Bay, (vii) stationing new long-range unmanned aerial vehicle squadrons at each of CFB Goose Bay and CFB Comox, (viiii) stationing new fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft in Yellowknife, (ix) increasing the size of the Canadian Rangers by 500, (x) establishing of a 650-member battalion at each of CFB Comox, CFB Goose Bay, CFB Trenton, and CFB Bagotville, (xi) adding 1000 regular force and 750 reserve force personnel to the army in Quebec, (xii) establishing a territorial defence unit in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, St. John's, Halifax and the Niagara-Windsor corridor; (b) what is the rationale for the inclusion or exclusion of each item from the Canada First Defence Strategy; and (c) for each item that is not a part of the strategy, has the government taken any steps to carry out or implement the item, and if the government has not taken any such steps, does it intend to do so and, if so, when?

13. Given the implications of a lack of affordable painkillers the world over and the effects of an illicit economy on Afghan daily life, and considering the entirety of European efforts to promote higher standards of health policies and in state and nation-building programmes, the European Parliament should urge the Council to adopt a common position that could trigger a major revision of current strategies and approaches both in the field of opioid availability and affordability at the global level and on poppy eradication in Afghan ...[+++]istan.

On the first point, with regard certainly to health research, in my previous annual report I addressed this at some length because there was a concern, a very legitimate concern, in the health community and the research community that the consent provisions of the PIPED Act could potentially stifle or at least inhibit research.

Reform of the JRC The Commission intends to make far-reaching changes in a number of areas in order to adapt the JRC to the tasks it is to perform within the Community's research and technological development strategy: - structure: on the basis of the principle of drawing a clear distinction between programme management and resource management, the JRC will be reorganized into a number of scientific institutes enjoying a large measure of scientific, administrative and financial independence; - management: the existing advisory structures will be streamlined, while the role a ...[+++]nd powers of the Board of Governors will be strengthened; - staff: a number of measures will be taken to ensure that the JRC permanently maintains a very high level of expertise coupled with considerable versatility: increased flexibility in the allocation of staff resources to different activities, an increase in the number of fellows and scientists visiting the JRC, an increase in the number of secondments from national centres to the JRC and vice versa, the creation of fixed- duration posts for post-doctoral fellows, etc.