It contains obligations aimed at controlling, reducing and eliminating discharges and emissions.

In such a case, the obligations of the Charter would be pre eminent and would exclude any others .

It faces, indeed, a humanitarian demining task of gigantic proportions.

(a) The international obligation in question excludes the possibility of invoking necessity or

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The complexity of the arrangements for scientific obligations differ from code to code.

Each nation would be obliged to emit no more than its emissions budget, i.e. the quantity of permits allowances it holds in a specific time frame.Proposals currently under negotiation in the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate provide for an emissions budget (i.e. the total amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted over a period of several years) to be allocated to each Annex 1 Party.

All military deminers have been retrained and are now carrying out mine clearance operations in accordance with international standards for humanitarian demining.

However, the definition of receivable in para. 21 (o) of A CN.9 WG.VI WP.22 Add.1 excludes rights to payment under a negotiable instrument, the obligation to pay under an independent undertaking and the obligation to pay under a bank account.

Annex I Parties may meet up to 25 per cent (twenty five per cent) of their domestic emission reduction obligations through joint implementation projects, and up to 100 per cent (a hundred per cent) of their emission reductions outside their territory.

Trading, banking and borrowing are seen as providing flexibility to emission sources in meeting their compliance obligations.

In effect, pursuant to paragraph (a), the carrier was prohibited from redefining its obligations under the draft instrument by excluding or limiting them, while paragraph (b) prevented the carrier from excluding or limiting its liability for breaching an obligation under the draft instrument.

Any attempt, direct or indirect, to impose treaty obligations on non States parties in the name of assistance in mine clearance and mine action should not be allowed.

Specifically, the responsibility for the coordination of mine action operations was transferred to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (while the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs retained the responsibility for humanitarian advocacy on mine action issues and for ensuring that mine action initiatives were fully integrated into humanitarian programmes).

Efforts to fulfil obligations under Article 5, particular clearance obligations, have been greatly aided by the extensive work, contribution and sacrifices of thousands of deminers in mine affected countries.

It should assume the obligation of overall coordination and management of any national mine action programme.

The Department has not been involved in mine clearance per se or in humanitarian, social and economic assistance activities related to clearance.

The Protocol does not establish emissions targets or new reporting obligations for developing country parties.

He expressed concern over the transfer of demining functions from the Department of Humanitarian Affairs to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

(d) Obligation to develop by making the necessary arrangements for irrigation and giving constant and regular attention to the irrigated crops.

The question arose whether that was a reservation, since by definition a reservation was that which restricted or excluded the obligations of the State party.

(a) It directly or indirectly excludes or limits the obligations of the carrier or a maritime performing party under this Instrument

The Centre was active in providing operational assistance to mine affected countries and in undertaking research, and provided methodological assistance in the implementation of demining programmes.

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V. EVOLUTION 38. Beyond the initial Berlin Mandate commitments to be taken by Annex I Parties, future commitments should be conditional upon the extent of participation in action to restrain emissions. (New Zealand)

The audits disclosed that the former Department of Humanitarian Affairs did not provide the mine action centres with formal allotment documents.

Service is undertaken as compulsory military service, compulsory civilian service or compulsory national service.

Mine Action Service

Presentation of financial statements

Any presumption that all couples intended to be subject to the same legal obligations would cancel out the couple's freedom to arrange their relationship and obligations as they see fit.

45. In 1994, a demining programme in Mozambique, then under the auspices of the Department for Humanitarian Affairs, was initiated.

Traditionally, humanitarian clearance has been based on military methods and standards however, as the direction and definition of humanitarian mine clearance has developed and changed, there has been an increasing requirement to establish a coordinated approach to humanitarian clearance standards.

180. International standards for humanitarian mine clearance operations have been produced in consultation with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and former Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

Parties therefore had an obligation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dramatically, and to fulfil the other promises they had made.

In its capacity as coordinator of the consolidated appeal process, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will ensure that the Mine Action Service is consulted.

9. Also welcomes the designation of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs, the focal point in the United Nations for coordinating humanitarian demining and related issues, as the repository of information and for encouraging and facilitating international research to improve mine clearance methods

Emphasizes the need not to subject developing countries to new obligations related to limiting their emission, whether on a mandatory or voluntary basis and not to determine a time schedule for any negotiations relating such obligations.

Media arrangements and services

123. The Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, in collaboration with its humanitarian partners, works closely with the United Nations Mine Action Service on all issues of concern to the humanitarian community.

D. Treaty reporting and international obligations

The Parties shall adopt, by 2005 , binding provisions so that all Parties have quantitative greenhouse gas emissions obligations and so that there is a mechanism for automatic application of progressive greenhouse gas emissions obligations to Parties, based upon agreed criteria.

6. The requirement of a purpose to obtain a financial benefit is important, as this aids in excluding crimes of terrorism.

In most of the technical assistance arrangements surveyed, the status of compliance with reporting obligations by a State party that has received assistance for reporting remain under review until the State party fully meets its reporting obligations.

(a) Persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education system on the basis of disability, and that children with disabilities are not excluded from free and compulsory primary education, or from secondary education, on the basis of disability

Human rights obligations are binding and mechanisms must be in place to enforce these obligations.