The most illustrative examples of NTBs include plant and animal health standards, food safety standards, environmental certification and other similar export quality standards.

(ii) Updated proposals for workload standards, efficiency and related performance indicators

The new challenge currently facing the world was to go beyond short term environmental performance and to strive for environmental sustainability.

There is also a need for appropriate standards on the social and environmental fronts.

So we're creating something called Ecological Performance Standards that hold cities to this higher bar.

ISAR noted that an enterprise's environmental performance could affect its financial health and hence its sustainability.

Clean technology is a concept of relative environmental performance, which is subject to change over time.

Small and medium enterprises also find it difficult to comply with the high standards set by international markets, including the increasingly stringent environmental and social standards.

In paragraph 309 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's reiterated recommendation to establish benchmarks for performance for contract letting and to monitor performance against those standards.

When constructing their indicators, the countries report that they aim to comply with the highest environmental monitoring standards.

At the people level, institutional values and standards of conduct and performance should be clearly communicated, monitored and enforced.

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Laboratories and other scientific institutions will be able to work more effectively, meet internationally accepted performance standards and provide reliable evidence in court, through ongoing access to expert advice and guidance, methods, guidelines, reference standards and materials, training opportunities and a quality assurance programme to monitor overall performance.

The group took the view that the board should disclose its policy and performance in connection with environmental and social responsibility and the impact of this policy and performance on the firm's sustainability.

Finally, it is important to have appropriate environmental standards that monitor and set controls on adverse externalities generated by firms.

Periodic reporting will remain the primary mechanism for reviewing progress in relation to organizational targets, performance standards and results for children.

However, the practices of some TNCs cause direct and indirect human rights violations and degrade basic social, economic and environmental standards.

The Unit should also be involved in quality assurance of vendor certification and vendor performance in terms of adherence to safety standards.

Its national strategy included plans for the development of all inhabited spaces in strict compliance with high environmental and economic management standards.

The programme includes the development of the Standards of Performance Manuals for hotels and restaurants, as well as a programme of quality inspections.

But Europe must not heed short sighted calls to relax its environmental standards, which some claim harm its competitiveness vis à vis countries with looser rules. Given their global reputation as guarantors of quality, Europe s high environmental standards are crucial to its future competitiveness, and should therefore be actively promoted, particularly in trade agreements.

The advantages of certification include its potential clearly to distinguish those companies that have achieved high levels of performance (as defined by the standards).

The initiative further aimed to reduce poverty through community reconstruction, increase food production, fight environmental degradation and improve basic social services and living standards.

In Lithuania, a cleaner production programme is being implemented with support from the Norwegian Government to improve environmental performance, competitiveness and regulatory compliance of industry.

Considering that conformity to high standards and norms, including the increasing stringent environmental and social standards, can offer enhanced market access, SMEs were supported in understanding and responding to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies of large corporations.

Its latest project, a labelling programme for mobile phones, focuses on high standards for communication, visual and ergonomic factors and for low emission and ecological performance.

In addition there are a number of economic and environmental issues which will need to be addressed including the possible need for financial assistance for disarmament and the harmonizing of environmental standards for destroying weapons systems and disposing of fissile materials.

1.8 The Health programme will continue to focus on fostering quantitative and qualitative service standards consistent with the UN Millennium Developments Goals (MDGs), public sector standards and improving environmental conditions in camps, with a special focus on preventive primary health care.

The problem of relative environmental performance could be overcome either by setting up a proper review mechanism or by including entire plants or technologies in the list.

China will work for a global consensus on climate change. The big question is whether it will be able to impose tougher environmental standards throughout the whole country.

He called attention to the technical and financial implications of new security measures and environmental standards, and welcomed UNCTAD's work on the interlinkage between security and trade facilitation.

The Deputy Executive Director noted that UNICEF intentionally set itself very demanding performance standards and that its audit function was fully transparent to the United Nations Board of Auditors.

Other bureaucratic decision makers, for their part, are increasingly constrained by requirements of transparency and disclosure. Internet based movements are forcing Chinese policymakers to strengthen labor and environmental standards.

It rejected all attempts to include non trade issues, such as labour and environmental standards, into the working programme of WTO, or to link such issues with trade deals.

Young people urge Member States to comply with internationally agreed labour standards, to ensure the fair pricing of commodities on the global market and to balance environmental integrity with economic growth.

Article 18 An enterprise must manufacture guns for civilian use strictly in conformity with the technical standards set by the State, it shall not alter the performance or structure of such guns.

2. In particular, each State Party shall endeavour to apply, within its own institutional and legal systems, codes or standards of conduct for the correct, honourable and proper performance of public functions.

Office management plans (OMPs) at regional and headquarters divisional levels provide the basis for allocating human, financial and management resources in line with the focus areas and performance standards of the MTSP.

Big issues, such as migration, narcotics, or the environment, no longer fall within a traditional left right framework. For example, people may see an inevitable tradeoff between tough environmental standards and jobs.

Many Americans will reject Bush this November because of the poor performance of the economy or the quagmire in Iraq. Others will oppose him due to his environmental record or his budget priorities.

This can only be done by introducing legal mechanisms to reward those who protect the environment, while making polluters pay, and by helping to unify the environmental watchdogs scattered across different sectors. Above all, a system needs to be established to monitor officials performance in environmental as well as in economic terms.

The aim is to bring these pilot enterprises into compliance with environmental standards, while taking into account their need to remain competitive and to deal with the social consequences of major technology upgrading.

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