Translation of "division des activités bilatérales " (French → English) :

WHEREAS without prejudice to the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter ‘TFEU’) and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (hereinafter ‘Euratom Treaty’), this Agreement and any activities entered into under it will in no way affect the powers vested in the Member States of the Union to undertake bilateral activities with Switzerland in the fields of science, technology, ...[+++] research and development, and to conclude, where appropriate, agreements to that end,

In Annex II paragraph 7, ‘class 70.20 “Letting of own property” ’ is replaced by ‘class 68.20 “Renting and operating of own or leased real estate” ’, ‘division 71 “Renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of personal and household goods” ’ is replaced by ‘division 77 “Rental and leasing activities” ’ and ‘class 60.24’ is replaced by ‘class 49.41’.

(Return tabled) Question No. 164 Mr. Peter Julian: With regard to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) working groups: (a) what are the regulatory changes, regulatory harmonization, procedural changes, and new programming initiatives proposed by each SPP working group; (b) what are the proposal and the proposals that have led, or are leading to regulatory changes, regulatory harmonization, procedural changes, and new programming initiatives, in every area covered by each working group; (c) what are the names of any and all sub-working groups along with a description of their tasks and issues to cover; (d) what is the lead country, the agency and the department responsible for each sub-working group; (e) who are the lead officia ...[+++]ls and the members for each sub-working group; (f) how many person-hours each division with responsibility for a part of the SPP has dedicated to SPP-related tasks, by year for 2005, 2006 and 2007; (g) what share, by division, do SPP-related tasks account by year for 2005, 2006 and 2007; (h) in which working group and sub-working group are copyright-related issues covered; (i) what role have the ongoing SPP negotiations in this area played in the formulation of the government’s copyright-reform legislation; (j) at which SPP meetings was Canadian copyright reform discussed, and who were the participants; (k) how much coordination is there among SPP working groups and their sub-working groups; (l) what is the nature of this coordination, for which the government has indicated it has hired several individuals in the Public Safety and Industry Departments; (m) what are the duties and responsibilities of these individuals; (n) at what level are tradeoffs among the various working groups discussed; (o) how does the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) interact with the sub-working groups; (p) how often do NACC members interact with officials working on SPP-related projects; (q) who are the lead NACC contacts for eac ...

The support focuses on multilateral group mobility activities but does not exclude bilateral activities of this kind.

The Commission will also pursue more effective evaluation of activities undertaken and their impact, including through regular exchanges of experience with the Human Rights and Democracy Committee of member states examining both EC and bilateral activities to seek synergies and improvements.

In order to move towards a better balance between bilateral and multilateral activities, Community support will be progressively focused on multilateral group-mobility activities.