Through market dominance, private voluntary standards such as EurepGAP become de facto mandatory.

While there was no consensus on the usefulness of performance requirements, several experts noted the importance of distinguishing between mandatory and voluntary performance requirements.

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

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

Parties shall not include the quantities of any Kyoto Protocol units in the registry's mandatory cancellation accounts as defined in the data exchange 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.

After deliberations, the Working Group considered that regulations proposed in article 9, paragraph (1) quinquiens, addressing the technical issues should not be mandatory, but that those on the question of accessibility should be mandatory, subject to resolution of the drafting issues outstanding on the accessibility standards themselves.

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

Parties shall not include the quantities of any Kyoto Protocol units in the registry's mandatory cancellation accounts as defined in the data exchange standards Retirement account' (paragraph 21 (f)).

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.

Mandatory rules

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

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

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

Article 6 Mandatory declaration

Mandatory (e.g. performance requirements), inducive (e.g. incentives) and hortatory (e.g. voluntary guidelines) approaches to increasing corporate contributions to development have been pursued at various times, in various circumstances and with various degrees of success.

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

Furthermore, when it comes to tariffs and standards, WTO rules are not created equal. While they protect countries excluded from bilateral or regional tariff agreements, thereby ensuring that integrated markets do not receive additional advantages, few safeguards exist to shield third countries from the fallout of agreements on mandatory standards.

Public policy and mandatory rules

Action on non mandatory measures

In addition to mandatory food safety requirements, large private retailers have introduced stringent product and process standards that require technical competencies, technical support packages and new management methods, symbolizing a move to high precision agriculture.

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.

13.17 In line with General Assembly resolution 58 269 of 23 December 2003, ITC will undertake a series of self evaluations of projects, programmes and thematic areas of work as well as the mandatory self assessment of subprogramme performance, which will include collating, analysing and updating performance information as well as drafting and assessing accomplishments.

mandatory grounds for refusing to extradite

There have been encouraging moves to declare mandatory sentences unlawful or unconstitutional, or at least to mitigate the effects of mandatory sentences.

The representative presented four concrete suggestions schools should provide gender oriented curricula training, forums and conferences addressing gender sensitive approaches in health services mandatory reporting of domestic violence and the establishment of surveillance systems as measurable indicators of performance.

We've got to limit other mandatory spending.

The principles of human rights are mandatory.

If, in the draft instrument, service contracts are exempt from the mandatory scope of application of the liability regime without any safeguards to ensure that small shippers are effectively protected against unfair contract terms, it is possible that in future most international liner carriage could be conducted on the carrier's standard terms as incorporated into service contracts and thus not subject to mandatory minimum standards of liability.

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.

One speaker argued that such an instrument could make mandatory all provisions against money laundering contained in the United Nations conventions and could make standards such as the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering universally applicable.

A cooking course should be mandatory in schools.

C. Introducing mandatory induction programmes for senior officials

Believers, fasting has been made mandatory for you as it was made mandatory for the people before you, so that you may have fear of God.

Believers, fasting has been made mandatory for you as it was made mandatory for the people before you, so that you may have fear of God.

(a) Passwords are now mandatory following the audit recommendation

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.

The mandatory minimum sentence for armed robbery is five years.

The following have the right to mandatory health care insurance

The testing of donor blood and transplant organs is mandatory.

To build and strengthen national regulatory, institutional and human capacities to overcome barriers to trade, and to meet voluntary and mandatory standards and conformity assessment procedures to be able to access external markets and improve the protection of consumers and the environment in internal markets

The Working Group considered whether the issue of such regulations should be mandatory or non mandatory. Certain delegations noted that an obligation to regulate such matters might be onerous.

And he asked for the mandatory minimum sentence for armed robbery.