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.

He recalled that Australia's firearms laws were among the most stringent in the world.

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.

Stringent controls.

Finally, as a last step in this context, consistent and stringent international standards of accounting and security for fissile materials might be established.

His country considered that the marking rules and practices it was applying met the most stringent international criteria.

Oversight is stringent.

(iii) remove difficult market entry conditions such as those emanating from concentrated and changing market structures, as well as very stringent and diverse product standards

Licensing provisions can impede entry of foreigners through non recognition of their professional qualifications or by imposing discriminatory, more stringent and more costly standards on them.

Most Governments are adopting or implementing stringent regulations to control chemical precursors in order to prevent illicit diversion of those substances.

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.

More stringent regulations were being approved and implemented.

Even for countries that enjoyed preferential trading agreements such as those parties to the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and ACP countries, these stringent standards reduced the value of trade preferences.

A further set of services provided under the second focus area of this service module will be related to helping SMEs to comply with the stringent environmental and social standards set by international markets.

Nuclear power must be subject to stringent safety standards in order to ensure that nuclear technology was used exclusively for peaceful purposes beneficial to all, and account must be taken of fuel cycle related problems.

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.

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.

Most national financial reporting standards, and IFRS, require extensive disclosure on this matter.

And that's only possible through a stringent if somewhat cruel selection.

20. Most industries had benefited from this association by improving their own quality standards.

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.

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

They shall be subject to stringent emission reduction verification and accountability methodologies.

Most of the medical equipment is old and technologically outdated by standards in modern hospitals.

Further progress is needed on those standards goals that are both most fundamental to creating a sustainably multi ethnic Kosovo and most difficult.

He hoped that stringent measures would be taken urgently to rectify that situation.

In the cases referred to in article 9, paragraph 2, the standards of evidence required for prosecution and conviction shall in no way be less stringent than those which apply in the cases referred to in article 9, paragraph 1.

Construction of additional facilities, both office and living space, is complicated by the need to ensure that it meets the stringent protective standards required for operations in an environment where explosive devices, suicide bombs and indirect fire are a constant threat.

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

They shall be subject to stringent emission reduction or removal verification and accountability methodologies.

Furthermore, the proposed standards would be illegal in those countries from where most of the waste came.

In Nepal, stringent criteria for registration of the internally displaced has resulted in most of the estimated 200,000 who have fled their homes not being formally recognized as displaced and not able to access assistance.

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.

Improving standards of living in most countries has almost invariably led to a marked improvement in health indicators.

44. The quot globalization of standards quot is the most important consequence of quot bottom up quot globalization.

Manned spacecraft, particularly space stations, are normally larger than most unmanned vehicles and must demonstrate higher safety standards.

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.

He concluded by asking for the full and stringent application of the relevant rules and regulations.

4. Cuba reported that its stringent border control measures had deterred organized traffic in illegal migrants.

More stringent control of sulphur emissions can be exercised in special sulphur oxide emission control areas.

We need to drive up standards of governance and help the poorest people, for whom support is most crucial.