The complex things get more fragile, more vulnerable the Goldilocks conditions get more stringent, and it's more difficult to create complexity.

In recent years, environmental requirements (ERs) comprising governmental regulations as well as voluntary private sector or NGO created standards and their associated conformity assessment systems have become more stringent, frequent and complex in certain sectors.

It was expected that IMO would review Annex V with a view to introducing stricter requirements for on board waste management and stringent discharge regulations.

Some countries, like the United States and Australia, chose to opt out of its stringent demands others, like Canada, Japan, and a raft of European states, pay lip service to its requirements but will essentially miss its targets. Yet, even if everyone had participated and continued to stick to Kyoto s ever more stringent commitments, it would have had virtually no environmental effect.

So, you know, we live in a world that's subjected to ever more stringent child safety regulations.

It concluded that, whereas the techniques were appropriate for ensuring regulatory compliance, in order for them to meet the more stringent requirements for verification, increased sensitivity would be required as well as an enhanced ability to detect specific isotopes and chemical species.

But, as requirements for registering clinical trials have become more stringent, its magnitude has become quantifiable the results of at least half of the clinical trials involving patients and healthy volunteers remain unpublished years after completion. Studies with negative results are particularly unlikely to see the light of day.

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.

The Interim regulations and requirements of the China Adoption Centre with respect to intercountry adoptions involving foreign adoption organizations set out clear and stringent requirements governing the adoption application, the documents to be produced, the family situation report, the procedures for submission and processing of these papers and post adoption reporting.

But the alternative relaxing evidentiary standards would undermine values such as legality and reasonable doubt, which are essential to a fair trial. Genocide s stringent requirements mean that it is and should be difficult to convict a defendant.

Further, to enable precision manufacture and to comply with stringent quality requirements, developing countries and economies in transition require well developed metrology infrastructure, having calibration facilities that can establish measurement and traceability chains to the international SI units.

On the contrary, we should ask whether the time has not come to set even more stringent targets. And it is also time to take a more detailed look at where we continue to fall short.

Supplying products to mega firms can prove difficult for small producers and providers, including because of stringent requirements for value, quality, specifications and certification, all of which may be hard to meet, particularly in the light of SMEs' resource constraints.

Private standards and technical regulations, set by major importers, supermarket chains, etc., will gain in importance, and will be more stringent than national or regional standards and technical regulations.

Therefore, any verification procedures must be sufficiently stringent to ensure full compliance.

Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US. And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.

Some States and private sector entities have begun to address the factors that deter people from using formal banking systems, for example by abolishing overelaborate customer verification practices which make it difficult for customers to open bank accounts reducing fees for money transfers removing minimum balance requirements and increasing the availability of bank services, as well as addressing stringent bank licensing requirements.

The current estimated literacy rate for 2001 was 49.51 , though the definition of literacy is more stringent now people who are able to read with understanding and can write a short statement .

Several regulations in developed countries apply stringent rules on food quality, packaging and labelling.

Stringent considerations of the risk of collateral damage are applied each time they are used.

Acquisition of nationality of the Niger was not therefore subject to any very stringent conditions.

This is an important achievement, but it should not be taken as a signal to relax. On the contrary, we should ask whether the time has not come to set even more stringent targets.

Stringent monitoring is carried out, both at the recruitment stage and again at the training stage.

Some have set stringent energy intensity targets and energy conservation plans for different branches of industry.

Stringent and professional quality security policies are implemented throughout the UNCC information systems, networks and databases.

Now many of these guarantees will need to be thrown out. Instead, a number of European countries are discussing the introduction of stringent fiscal rules into their constitutions, and are contemplating even more far reaching changes.

They ask States that are members of the WTO not to set stringent acceptance conditions for Arab States.

Concerns have also been expressed about very stringent MRLs recently applied in Japan on various imported horticultural products.

Although Canada supports the current diplomatic efforts to find a solution to this problem, we have to be ready, as Prime Minister Martin recently indicated, to move from words to deeds and impose more stringent measures, if necessary.

The presentation of additional staffing requirements in the revised budget should have been more transparent and better organized.

The general environment surrounding money management is also more and more complex, calling for tighter and more comprehensive risk management and proactive action as regards the trends and requirements of the industry.

A Directive on the Duty to Accommodate will set out requirements at a more operational level than the policy.

While Europe s reputation for foreign policy softness continues to shape Iranian perceptions, the EU s role in compelling Iran to negotiate underpins the current talks. Likewise, it was France s insistence on more stringent controls that initially blocked the agreement in Geneva last November.

Parties to the Convention would be obligated to criminalize in their domestic law offences at least equivalent to those in the proposed Protocol, but would not be precluded from adopting or maintaining domestic law provisions more stringent than those in the Convention.

The European Union recognized that the recent revisions to the Mission's mandate had made staffing requirements more difficult to forecast.

Circumstances have forced more and more investors to look for new investment opportunities by adding unconventional asset classes and applying new investment theories and technologies to meet their investment requirements.

All chemical weapons production capacity must be inactivated and subsequently destroyed or converted for peaceful purposes, subject to stringent verification by the OPCW.

Third, a more expansive requirement for financial disclosure by senior officials and better dissemination of code of conduct requirements are being introduced.

A suggestion was made that regulations might be a more appropriate place to discuss the publicity requirements for that type of information.

Further requests the Secretary General to improve the formulation of resource requirements for air operations in budget submissions to make them more reflective of actual operations, bearing in mind the overbudgeting of air transportation requirements in some peacekeeping operations

Further requests the Secretary General to improve the formulation of resource requirements for air operations in budget submissions to make them more reflective of actual operations, bearing in mind the overbudgeting of air transportation requirements in some peacekeeping operations

There is an urgent necessity for a range of international, regional and national efforts to promote a variety of measures, inter alia, more stringent controls on sensitive exports, especially to those countries that are engaged in extensive proliferation activities and are also involved in supporting terrorism.

Only those which have no objection during the publicity can exist from the list of poverty stricken counties. The exit standard is also stringent.

The Executive Board was supplied with details about World Bank data confidentiality provisions, which are as stringent as those in many national statistical offices.

As a country gets richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into its shops and restaurants, and as you can see, most European and North American countries fall between 150 and 200 percent of the nutritional requirements of their populations.