The group targeted June 2005 as a benchmark date in their preparations for COP 7.

Comparing with a superstar is the wrong benchmark.

(a) Establishing appropriate benchmark indices, proportions and performance targets

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Encouragingly, there is a growing acceptance among non participants of Australian Group measures as an international benchmark for effective export control.

As noted above, such queries are currently addressed in a reactive manner only and are not addressed within the set benchmark.

Several countries found it practical to use disaster resistant hospitals as an example of a benchmark for reducing overall disaster risk.

This offshoring initiative might also serve as a pilot study and useful benchmark for further similar arrangements for a wide range of administrative activities.

The summit has endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the benchmark of progress towards that objective.

As from 2004, independent companies will also be able to assess their own results against this benchmark.

Source K. Zandvliet, Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, The Hague, 2003.

iii. Benchmark for Women in senior positions'

The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

There were no standard price lists of treatment, drugs and medicines and therefore information was not available as a benchmark to ensure that only reasonable amounts were reimbursed.

(i) To benchmark OIOS against similar audit and oversight bodies

Part of the Mixed' project is developing an international benchmark.

And I know TED is about big ideas, but actually, the benchmark for a big idea is changing.

It should be a benchmark in the ongoing work on violence against women and pave the way forward.

INSTRAW could, for example, create benchmark statistics and criteria to measure the actual implementation of gender mainstreaming in areas such as violence against women.

In paragraph 38 of the report, the Pension Fund agreed with the Board's recommendation that it use the best practices of other funds as a benchmark in accounting for pension contributions.

K. Zandvliet c.s., Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, November 2002 (House of Representatives Documents, SZW 03 234).

Those 13 steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the disarmament process.

We remain open to considering all proposals and will evaluate them against that benchmark.

The commemoration in 2003 of the International Year of Fresh Water was a benchmark in the establishment of an international water agenda.

Progress by FARDC in assuming effective responsibility for security nationwide would also constitute a key benchmark guiding the exit strategy for MONUC.

(f) The strategy to continuously benchmark the performance of OIOS against other such service providers.

WP Activity 8 Evaluate the state of the art of common benchmark and indicator systems

The next step is the Women in senior positions' benchmark, which is currently being developed.

Staffing has proceeded slowly, but there is scope for this benchmark soon to be met.

These steps are not a panacea nor a definitive listing, but they do constitute a common objective benchmark against which to measure progress in achieving nuclear disarmament.

Relying on those numbers, the Governor stated that that represented the strongest period of growth for this critical benchmark in a decade .33

It is necessary to benchmark the international advanced standards and promote the quality of industrial products.

Just to benchmark that threshold, it's about the governance level of Portugal in the mid 1980s.

This likely outcome mirrors the initiative for a European or global banking fund to insure against the next financial crisis. In both cases, however, perfect insurance could nonetheless serve as a valid benchmark to guide the choice of policies to implement.

The last remaining technical benchmark was the requirement for 65 per cent staffing of State defence institutions.

Our meeting is taking place shortly after the designation by the Transitional National Assembly of Iraq of a draft national constitution, which marks an important benchmark in Iraq's political transition, as outlined in Security Council resolution 1546 (2004).

Through these efforts, ASEAN is emerging as the fulcrum of geopolitical stability in Asia. What could have otherwise been a liability ASEAN's diversity was transformed into an asset that has set the benchmark for regional integration in a troubled and complex world.

The EurepGAP standard, for instance, is likely to become a very important international benchmark for ensuring food safety and consistently high quality of horticultural produce.

The year 2005 is a significant historical benchmark in the decolonization process, as two important activities converge to shed light on how far we have come in advancing the self determination process, and how much remains to be done.

We believe that those 13 practical steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the nuclear disarmament process.

Such staffing has proceeded slowly, but it is hoped that this benchmark will be met early in 2005.

One of the advantages of the Programme is that it sets forth a number of norms and principles that must become a benchmark for any undertaking in this area.

Just as Spain (not Germany) remains the benchmark in European football, so Europe speaks broken English at best. From the standpoint of safeguarding the European project, that is all for the better.

IAPWG should arrange for the further development of its existing common procurement guidelines into a generic system wide policy and procedures manual to serve as a benchmark which articulates common procurement principles and stages as well as standard quality outcomes, and significantly streamlines procurement procedures to be applied individually and collectively at all duty stations (para.