1.85 The lead department. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is the lead federal department for UNFA. The agreement is implemented in Canada primarily through the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act and its regulations, the legal means of controlling fishing vessels` access to Canadian waters and their activities in Canadian waters. Key federal programs and activities in support of the agreement include fisheries science, integrated fisheries management plans, offshore monitoring programs, enforcement programs, and international negotiations to enforce Canadian interests in internationally managed fish stocks. 1.57 The Department noted that the provincial, territorial, and local authorities that are part of the networks use a number of data quality assurance programs. These are complemented by federal controls that include verification of the calibration and performance of devices. Environment Canada provides assurance on the accuracy of the air monitoring data collected and reported and has stated that it believes that the ozone concentration information is of sufficient quality. A detailed table has been drawn up listing the international environmental agreements to which the Union is already a party or signatory. The completion of the implementation of the Paris Agreement has been achieved in recent years, with one of the most important milestones being the adoption of the Katowice Rulebook at the Katowice Climate Summit (COP 24). This document allows, inter alia, to make the different information and obligations effective and to be compared as for the same; monitor compliance with the agreement, which remains to be determined, in order to develop a global diagnostic methodology; issues of adaptation and technology transfer, which need to be intensified; and negotiations on climate finance, to be launched in the future in 2025. Our audit work was conducted primarily from January to May 2004 and focused primarily on the three main federal departments responsible for the five agreements: Environment Canada, Transport Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. We examined performance information and results available to senior departments on key environmental objectives of the selected agreements.

We also asked departments to disclose and describe how they applied accountability elements under their agreements, and to provide supporting evidence and documentation. In our audit process, we interviewed departmental officials and other selected stakeholders and reviewed departmental files, reports, and other documents. However, 1,100 Fisheries and Oceans Canada noted that setting conservation objectives is a complex process based on international negotiations, and that the UNFA did not come into force until 2001. .