Precautionary Absurdity

(c) Guidance for the use of precautionary statements and precautionary pictograms

In addition, and irrespective of that view, the Netherlands preferred the term precautionary principle to the existing precautionary approach .

Sustainable development thus reduced the population at risk and enabled a country to take adequate precautionary measures and to reduce the impact when precautionary measures were not sufficient.

Consequently, travel restrictions, introduced as a precautionary measure, have been lifted.

A3.5.1 Clear plain language is essential to convey information on precautionary behaviour.

Accordingly, in this draft article, he has adopted the term precautionary approach .

The precautionary measures instituted by the Public Prosecutor's Office were designed to protect potential victims.

But no precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee.

He suggested that precautionary steps be considered during construction, such as low cost lightning rod technologies.

This will ensure that meaningful examination and appropriate precautionary action can be taken over the next year.

The precautionary principle and the ecosystem approach are fundamental to the conservation and management of fishing resources.

Such principles can lead to the identification of both near term precautionary actions and medium term initiatives.

(viii) Article 38 of the International Law Association Berlin Rules on Water Resources, 2004, Precautionary management of aquifers

The Taliban, on their part, began putting in place some precautionary measures, including the deployment of supplementary forces.

Another delegation suggested that the precautionary approach to fisheries management be applied in the absence of conclusive scientific information.

Besides enhanced macroeconomic fundamentals and improved multilateral precautionary arrangements, including sufficient official liquidity, floating exchange rates could be helpful.

The application of the precautionary principle called for in Agenda 21 should become the general rule in ocean management.

I will conclude my statement with a reference to a legal concept that needs to be strengthened the precautionary principle.

It added that the deportation order against the complainant would not be enforced until the Committee lifted its precautionary measure.

In one case, a team of United Nations peacekeepers had to be assigned to provide protection as a precautionary measure.

Parties shall take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects.

It was also observed that further development of the topic should give greater emphasis to the polluter pays and precautionary principles.

Other precautionary measures were the exhaustion of local remedies and giving the opportunity to domestic courts to identify the issues involved.

Eventually, the IPCC would be able to define those limits, but in the meantime a precautionary approach had to be followed.

Article 11 of the Act against the Laundering of Money or Other Assets, Decree No. 67 2001, provides as follows Precautionary measures.

(i) Fill gaps in their mandates to include ecosystem and biodiversity considerations, the precautionary approach, based on the best available scientific information

It is thus responsible for maintaining the legal order of the State through pronouncements in law, whether voluntary, precautionary or in litigation.

Some delegations stressed the importance of the application of the ecosystem and precautionary approaches in the conservation and management of marine living resources.

They stressed that these findings, also taking into account the precautionary principle, underline the need for urgent action at the widest possible level.

After all, precautionary policymakers would have business value conservation over growth, while the proactionary camp would have the state encourage people to transcend current norms rather than adhere to them. A precautionary firm would look like a miniature version of today s regulatory state, whereas a proactionary state would operate like a venture capitalist writ large.

It was urged that a stronger application of the precautionary principle be made, which would therefore proscribe such shipments in accordance with SIDS' goals.

But one division that looms on the horizon could reinvent the right left distinction for the twenty first century precautionary versus proactionary attitudes toward risk as principles of policymaking. In social psychological terms, precautionary policymakers set their regulatory focus on the prevention of worst outcomes, whereas proactionary policymakers seek the promotion of the best available opportunities.

Some of the codes identified also incorporate more practically oriented obligations relating to the conduct of professional activities, including specific reference to the precautionary principle.

In addition, the draft calls for the adoption of innovative precautionary measures that, in principle, should be borne in mind in authorizing any arms transfer.

Unlike the Special Rapporteur, the Government of the Netherlands took the view that the precautionary principle was already part and parcel of customary international law.

As to the management of small cetaceans, IWC adopted a resolution concerning directed takes of white whales and encouraged a precautionary approach to their management.

You obviously do what the precautionary principle suggests, you try to anticipate it, but after anticipating it, you constantly asses it, not just once, but eternally.

There has been a continued increase in the costly build up of precautionary reserves as a form of self insurance against volatility in international capital flows.

In the light of uncertainty about the nature and extent of some transboundary aquifers or aquifer systems, aquifer States are encouraged to take a precautionary approach.

Although precautionary statements have not been fully harmonized in the current GHS, Annex 3 of this document provides guidance to aid in the selection of appropriate statements.

Such a regime would stipulate that damage which occurred despite precautionary measures need not be defrayed by society but should be compensated by the author of the damage.

However, it should be noted that despite all the precautionary measures, the level of risk, which was already high, will further increase, particularly after the issuance of the report.

While the Special Rapporteur is sympathetic to this position, he is of the view that the precautionary principle has not yet developed as a rule of general international law.

Recognizing also the urgent need for action at all levels to ensure the long term sustainable use and management of fisheries resources through the wide application of the precautionary approach,