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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

(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

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.

Faced with this scourge of terrorism, Israel is forced to maintain stringent policies at its checkpoints in order to safeguard the security of its citizens.

This is one of the main reasons why stringent inspections of aircraft at airports of neighbouring and regional States for Somali bound flights are necessary.

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.

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.

An election after which the record of non permanent members is not examined is accountability, but a stringent review holding new permanent members accountable is lack of accountability.

The Prosecution advocates a broad interpretation of section 203A of the Penal Law (the trafficking offence) in court and lobbied for stringent sanctions against traffickers, including compensation for victims.

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.

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.

The rule of thumb should be that Syria will be the target of sanctions no less stringent than those being applied to Iran. Syria s energy and banking sectors should be fully covered.

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 .

Likewise, Eurobonds are officially off the agenda, at least for now. Rather, Europe is putting in place a new fiscal compact to ensure that all eurozone countries adopt and implement stringent budgetary rules.

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.

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.

Many Governments were considering tighter border control measures to stem the tide of migrants and trafficked persons, and many had already started the process of drafting laws with stringent punitive provisions for the offenders.

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.

He stressed that even if stringent mitigation measures would be implemented they would have limited impacts on the number of people at risk from floods, because of lag times in the atmosphere and ocean systems.

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.

Singapore recently upheld its stringent anti homosexuality law. In Russia, on the same day Cook made his announcement, a memorial to Apple founder Steve Jobs was dismantled, ostensibly to comply with a law prohibiting gay propaganda.

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.

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.

It is not enough that remittance source States introduce stringent anti money laundering and combating financing of terrorism controls if receiving States do not aim to impose similar controls at the other end of the transaction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

However, we expect appropriate security arrangements to be determined on the basis of some principles of differentiation and stringent security arrangements not to unduly limit the engagement of the United Nations staff in dealing with problems on the ground.

As long as an aircraft is able to avoid areas where inspections are stringent or in some way evade proper inspection, it is relatively easy and safe to bring small quantities of weapons or arms into Somalia via aircraft.

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.