(b) Facilitates pooling of assets and liabilities of group companies and

Several delegations questioned the desirability of pooling funding mechanisms for joint programming.

Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

So these are consumers organizing, pooling their resources to incentify companies to do good.

The Committee was informed that the proposed requirements were for additional enhancements related to transaction matching and bank account pooling.

There is also a need to intensify economic cooperation within small island developing States regions, including through the pooling of resources.

Regional cooperation is all about pooling resources and assisting each other in order to preserve and uphold global peace and security.

Second is the regional provision of goods and services that can benefit from the pooling of national services at the regional level.

The Rio Group countries are pooling our efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, because we believe those Goals also address young people.

The primary advanatage of this from a PHP perspective is that web servers which support servlets typically take great care in pooling and reusing JVMs.

International and regional scientific research networks are also an important instrument in the pooling of limited resources to conduct R D relevant to development challenges.

In developing a strategy for pooling government debt, Europe s leaders must address the possibility of moral hazard (the temptation for weaker countries to relax their debt and deficit reduction efforts in response to the increased credibility conferred by stronger countries). Indeed, given stronger economies unwillingness to be exploited in this way, the risk of moral hazard is the most significant obstacle to pooling debts in the eurozone.

If Asian countries succumb, global imbalances and all their associated problems will return. Pooling regional reserves as a way of making them go further is a better alternative.

As a United Nations system, we need to maximize our collective effectiveness by pooling our efforts in every country as a fully joint United Nations team and programme on AIDS.

Belarus is prepared to join in the partnership initiated by the United States aimed at pooling international efforts for a rapid response in the event of an avian flu pandemic.

UNDAF should serve both as a means for harmonizing programme cycles and ensuring alignment with national strategies, and also as a framework for creating joint programming and pooling of resources.

These partnerships have been taking shape, and it is now up to us to give them substance by establishing appropriate frameworks, harmonizing methods and pooling capacities and resources for our work.

Investment pooling has permitted Treasury to limit very short term deposits to approximately 20 to 25 per cent of investments, allowing the remainder to be held in marketable fixed income securities.

Private health insurance would make such excessive saving unnecessary by pooling relatively small premiums from individuals or from their employers and then paying out to those who are hit with large medical bills.

One unintended effect of the Arab revolutions is that the link between security and integration that forms Europe s foundation is decoupling. The advantages of pooling sovereignty and resources ring increasingly hollow to ordinary Europeans.

The objective of the city group is to address methodological issues related to energy statistics and contribute to improved international standards and improved methods for official energy statistics by pooling expertise in the energy community.

Partnerships enable all concerned, private or public stakeholders, to coordinate their resources and objectives, creating economies of scale by pooling human, financial and technical resources, as in the case of regional or intraregional e tourism promotion.

National Governments could also facilitate local authorities' access to donor support and other international finance by aggregating loan demands of multiple localities into a common borrowing facility, realizing economies of scale, pooling risks and enhancing bargaining power.

Our ultimate aim should be to see the day when the international community is able to deal with each and every security challenge anywhere and any time by better pooling existing resources and capabilities for responding to violence.

Those with a sense of history will also see the significance of Europe s nation states, which not long ago fought each other continuously, now pooling their foreign policies in order to assert them more vigorously on the global stage.

The result is that the separate existence of all the companies that are subject to the pooling agreement is, in effect, ignored and all unsecured creditors of all companies participate equally in distributions from a single pool of assets.

That is why, long ago, European countries saw the sense in pooling their weight and reach through the European Union. Imperfect as the EU is, it still represents the best response to globalization yet seen among any extended group of countries.

Many delegations welcomed harmonized modalities for resource transfers, as they would reduce transaction costs for government counterparts, and also welcomed reforms being made to allow UNICEF to participate in forms of resource pooling arrangements, including sector wide approaches to development (SWAps).

Then we also look at the idea of cow pooling, which is the whole phenomenon of consumers organizing together to buy meat from organic farms that they know is safe and controlled in the way that they want it to be controlled.

Moreover, by encouraging better policy coordination and the pooling of financial resources, the Bretton Woods institutions boosted the effectiveness of international cooperation. And they enhanced stability by offering collective insurance to countries facing temporary hardship or struggling to meet their development financing needs.

But it is not the only obstacle. A debt pooling scheme must also address the fact that the strongest countries will inevitably face higher interest rates on their own debts when they become jointly liable for the debts of less credit worthy governments.

In particular, he wondered how the Special Representative of the Secretary General for the Sudan would implement the unified approach described in paragraph 5 of the report of the Secretary General (A 60 190) and avoid duplication by pooling existing and planned resources.

Savings resulting from improvement of coordination and harmonization in the field or pooling of resources could be useful if channelled as additional resources into the Organization's development work but not if that meant an additional burden or the imposition of additional conditions.

In conclusion, I would like to note that only by pooling our common efforts and being aware of the role and responsibility of every country will we ensure successful implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and resolve the diverse tasks facing Member States.

Their interest in participating has been confirmed and the potential benefits for both parties (that is, the pooling of know how and assessment of possible future opportunities for cooperation in planetary surface science and space technology development) became apparent during the discussions.

(e) Give priority to triangular cooperation, involving the participation of developed countries, in order to assist nations in difficult development circumstances by pooling the financial resources, technology, institutional capacities and expertise of the more advanced or pivotal countries with those of traditional donors

The only way to stem the erosion is to take determined action that convinces financial markets that the eurozone is here to stay. A debt pooling scheme that satisfies the requirements outlined here would signal that the eurozone member countries are serious about sticking together.

In addition to the activities of the offices for the advancement of women at the commune, prefecture and regional levels, women's NGOs have been pooling their efforts in the field, constituting a powerful force not only to promote but also to protect the rights of women.

During the discussions, the interest of the JAXA technical and scientific experts in participating was confirmed and the potential benefits for both parties became apparent. Those include the pooling of know how and the assessment of possible future opportunities for cooperation in planetary surface science and space technology development.

Donors participate in these new modalities by pooling their financial support in baskets that support the overall sector programme or the general budget, moving away from single project funding or area based programmes, and providing non earmarked funding consistent with the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals and other international goals.

For example, in both England and Australia, mechanisms have been developed that enable a pooling agreement to be sanctioned by the courts, whereby the assets and liabilities of two or more related companies in a group are, in effect, turned into one pool of assets and one pool of liabilities.

Britain s relationship with European integration has been a difficult one, regardless of which party has been in power (Wilson, after all, was a Labour prime minister). This was inevitable from the outset, owing to Britain s deep and irreconcilable disagreement with virtually all other EU member states on the fundamental issue of pooling sovereignty.

It was important to ensure the joint planning and pooling of resources for protection, and Zambia commended in particular the assistance provided by UNHCR, UNICEF, UNAIDS, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Food Programme, international NGOs and other charitable organizations, as well as the bilateral assistance received from other countries.

The EU should commit to continue democratizing its institutions, as it did when it gave the democratically elected European Parliament a voice in the selection of the European Commission president. For their part, EU member countries should recognize that they, as sovereign actors, chose integration, because the benefits of pooling their sovereignty outweighed the costs.

The Inspector believes that a strong case can be made for pooling procurement capacities at Headquarters within UNPD in order to maximize the recognized benefits of its reorganization into specialist units supporting a wide array of procurement activities, including over 40 different items, both for Headquarters and for field development, humanitarian and peacekeeping operations all over the world.