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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The high literacy rate had resulted in high standards of maternal and childcare.

By maintaining high environmental standards, and promoting such standards among its trade partners, Europe can bolster the global market for clean energy technologies. As a major player in the green technology market set to triple in value by 2020 Europe could regain competitiveness and secure its role in the future global economy.

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

Environmental sustainability was a high priority objective of the Government of Kazakhstan.

In removing supply side constraints, the focus of enabling services is on improving the necessary preconditions that support manufacture of products with high export potential and the provision of assistance in relation to enterprise upgrading, innovation, technology acquisition, investment as well as increasing the capacity to meet international standards, technical requirements and environmental regulations standards.

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

High performing systems also share clear and ambitious standards across the entire spectrum.

Unfortunately, what happened on this occasion did not meet the required high standards.

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

The Panel used the same high evidentiary standards in its investigations as in previous reports.

Film free cotton planting has achieved high yield, cost savings, environmental protection and improved overall benefits.

Though their loan recipients were high risk by ordinary standards, the default rate was extremely low.

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

Such high level dialogue, we believe, can help to achieve progress in the implementation of the standards.

This has increased the possibility for the promotion of staff who otherwise meet the high qualification standards.

Global funds that uphold high ethical standards concerning labor practices and environmental protections are safeguarding the global ecosystem on which they, and the rest of us, depend. As they establish and implement such principles, the resulting momentum has been changing corporate governance and behavior across industries and regions.

The world s most successful economies today are in Scandinavia. By using high taxes to finance a high level of government services, these countries have balanced high prosperity with social justice and environmental sustainability.

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.

We are also dismayed that the report continues to retain a high degree of selectivity and double standards.

Asia needs more help with infrastructure investment than the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank can provide China can play a useful leadership role and the participation of countries with high governance standards can help prevent the cronyism, corruption, and environmental damage to which large scale infrastructure projects are prone.

They want the Obama administration to ensure that the TPP includes core international labor standards for all participants, a high level of environmental protection, and access to affordable medicines, among other measures. If the administration takes these entirely reasonable demands on board, the resulting agreement would have considerable bipartisan support.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.

(d) Reviews official correspondence from the Director General to high level dignitaries, ensuring adherence to protocol and editorial standards

(c) Donor nations must adhere to high standards in regard to the grant equivalent content of their aid disbursements.

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.

Noting with concern the high environmental costs and the often irreversible impact of illicit crops on ecosystems, including tropical zones in strategic areas, with high biological diversity and abundant forests,

The petroleum products are poor in quality due to high sulfur content and become one of the causes of environmental pollution.

It is now high time to consider a more integrated structure for environmental standard setting, scientific discussion and monitoring treaty compliance.

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.

(a) The Office of the High Commissioner, on account of its role in implementing standards, should not undertake standard setting functions.

We have overhauled our legal system, and we are adopting high standards of good governance in the corporate and public sector.

In the area of gender equality and the empowerment of woman, the high female literacy rates in Sri Lanka had resulted in comparatively high rates of employment of females at executive levels and high standards of maternal and childcare.

Sri Lanka accorded high priority to the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals, including target 7 on environmental sustainability.

During the past few years, Oman had attained very high standards in the area of women's health, education and the labour market.

The High Level Committee on Management has approved a project for the development of such accounting standards within the United Nations system.

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.