(17) As regards income from selling repurchase securities, it is required to make disclosure of the beginning balance, ending balance and the agreed repurchase price at maturity of each trading place.

The Chiang Mai Initiative aims to help affected countries to cope with disrupted capital flows and maintain exchange rate stability by creating a network of bilateral swap agreements and repurchase agreement facilities among the ASEAN 3 countries.

(b) In its report on the biennium 1992 1993, the Board of Auditors recommended that all procurement requests be channelled through the Procurement Unit.

The length of service upon agreement has to be established by the agreement of the parties.

This was especially true of over the counter markets for foreign currency, securities, derivatives and repurchase agreements.

First, normal bankruptcy rules don t apply to repos. Second, much repo financing flows into large risk taking financial firms like MF Global, Lehman, and Bear Stearns through money market funds, which must invest very short term, because their depositors want immediate liquidity.

The Procurement and Contracts Unit has consolidated the submitted procurement plans and conducts periodic review meetings with the major clients.

That caveat made, the Inspector urges all IAPWG members to participate in the Lead Agency Concept Agreement, which should be fine tuned periodically, at the level of procedural detail in particular, in the spirit of the recommendation on a common system wide procurement manual or its three tier alternative.

The Ontario Court of Justice rejected the claims, holding that the government had properly exercised its right, under the agreements, to terminate them with notice of 30 days.

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The United Nations Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement To The International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994, second part,

Still, in one area, a Tobin tax could provide an unmitigated benefit. Many of the largest, most precarious financial institutions now finance themselves via repo they buy a long term security (often government debt) and sell it, promising to buy it back the next day for a slightly higher price.

The Procurement Service will also discuss this issue during the annual Chief Procurement Officers conference, scheduled to take place at Headquarters in the last week of April 2005.

The terms of purchase are agreed in advance in a contract which specifies how much will be bought, the price that will be paid and how risks are allocated.

See, e.g., appendix IV to the GPA listing publications utilized by States parties to the GPA for the publication of texts under paragraph 1 of article XIX of the GPA.

See, e.g., appendix IV to the GPA listing publications utilized by States parties to the GPA for the publication of texts under paragraph 1 of article XIX of the GPA.

Often these problems concern coordination of disbursements, procurement, and programming cycles of the partners involved.

As regards the issue of a single headquarters procurement entity, CEB members recall that IAPWG had already examined this question under the Common Services Initiative in 1997.

The text of the 1981 GATT Agreement on Government Procurement is available at http www.wto.org english docs_e legal_e tokyo_gpr_e.pdf.

Service level agreements will be periodically reviewed and updated.

The exact date for the special session would be the subject of consultations.

Trade cooperation of long standing under written agreements.

Togo concluded an agreement sponsored by the IDA Debt Reduction Facility, which allowed a write off of 28.9 million of past due interest and a buy back of 46 million at 12.5 cents per dollar.

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In the context of WTO, government procurement is subject to transparency obligations not only under the GPA but also article X.1 of GATT and article III.1 of GATS, with the result that the number of States obliging to publish measures relating to government procurement is not limited to the States parties to the GPA.

As regards commission income, it is required to make disclosure of the amount of such income at current period and last period by category (income from application fee, income from redemption fee, income from transition fee and income from subscription fee).

During the period under review, WCI

(e) Took note of the signature of a payment plan agreement and encouraged Afghanistan to pay regularly its instalments in line with the conditions therein.

Section VI reviews recent developments in multilateral environmental agreements that will have trade and development implications, particularly the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.

Such agreement will become operative only if all Parties to it have notified the secretariat of the terms of the agreement which shall remain operative for the duration of this Protocol or until a decision to amend or rescind the agreement is notified to the secretariat by all Parties to the agreement.

(b) The Registrar shall establish a review committee to render written advice to the Registrar on procurement actions leading to the award or amendment of procurement contracts, which, for purposes of these Regulations and Rules, includes agreements or other written instruments such as purchase orders and contracts that involve income to the Tribunal.

The second financial rule that privileges repos is that money market funds must keep their portfolios extremely liquid, because their customers draw checks on their deposits. The cash therefore goes into short term investments often via repos to financial firms with risky investments.

Reforming Repo Rules

Proponents of OMT counter that the Treaty forbids only direct government bond purchases indirect purchases in secondary markets are allowed. But the decision not to prohibit indirect purchases, opponents argue, may have been intended to allow the ECB to carry out weekly repo operations, following a practice used by the Banque de France to reduce fluctuations in short term interest rates.

Recognizing the importance of the Agreement for the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and the need for the regular consideration by the General Assembly and review by the parties to the Agreement pursuant to the provisions of the Agreement, once in force, of developments relating thereto,

The procurement regulations may set out a minimum time period for this purpose.

(e) Took note of the signature of a payment plan agreement and encouraged Kazakhstan to pay regularly its instalments in line with the conditions therein.

CREDENTIALS OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THE SECOND PART OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE FOR THE NEGOTIATION OF A SUCCESSOR AGREEMENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT, 1994

In addition, it is incumbent upon each procurement officer in each case to determine that the prospective awardee is responsible.

Dampening the repo market could be economically useful, because this funding has proven to be unstable Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers used repo heavily in ways that made them unable to withstand investment reversals elsewhere in their business. The same was true of MF Holdings last fall.

Stronger, longer term financing might have allowed these firms to survive. If a Tobin tax induced financial institutions to finance themselves with more longer term debt and less overnight repo, it could play a significant stabilizing role.

v. strengthen the development dimension in multilateral trade agreements, including operationalizing the special and differential treatment provisions such as extending the transitional period in implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement

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OIOS found that, in the area of aviation procurement, the United Nations had moved during the period from stable, long term contracts under Letters of Assist with Member States, to the competitive world of commercial aviation procurement.