Through market dominance, private voluntary standards such as EurepGAP become de facto mandatory.

There was general consensus on the need to implement existing conventions and standards in the area of countering money laundering.

Its reliance on voluntary contributions rendered absolutely essential the highest standards of impartiality, transparency and accountability in its management and programmes.

While there was no consensus on the usefulness of performance requirements, several experts noted the importance of distinguishing between mandatory and voluntary performance requirements.

The State Department of Fisheries has recently undertaken voluntary commitments relating to numerous standards for the exploitation and preservation of marine living resources.

Debris mitigation measures would be voluntary and it was vitally important therefore to encourage involvement and build consensus so that all would be prepared to abide by the agreed measures.

China will work for a global consensus on climate change. The big question is whether it will be able to impose tougher environmental standards throughout the whole country.

Schemes can include environmental and social sustainability criteria alongside more traditional quality standards, and may be initiated, run or just supported by Governments Voluntary contributions This is about encouraging tourism enterprises and visitors to support conservation and social projects through voluntary financial donations or other help in kind

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.

Standards. Two standards are proposed.

We need to take what we've learned in private, voluntary standards of what the best producers in the world are doing and use that to inform government regulation, so we can shift the entire performance curve.

The simple proposal is that we should have some international standards, which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points that need to be taken in order to harness these resource revenues.

In that regard, his delegation noted with satisfaction the efforts made by Morocco to come up with a formula to enhance security standards, and hoped that the proposals in question would be adopted by consensus.

It's voluntary.

In accordance with United Nations system accounting standards, non expendable property purchased with UNHCR voluntary funds is not recorded on the balance sheet, but is charged as expenditure to the appropriate project in the year of acquisition.

In the financial and budgetary areas, emphasis will continue to be placed, inter alia, on results based budgeting, accounting standards, cash management and relationships between regular and voluntary funding, as well as on the development of best practices.

This model, which some have dubbed The Beijing Consensus is explicit there are no moral standards, only material ones. Human rights and freedom can be made to disappear not only from Web sites, but also from reality.

(c) Voluntary contributions.

developing voluntary guidelines.

C. Voluntary repatriation

In its agreed conclusions, the IGE reciprocated the São Paulo Consensus call for the strengthening of UNCTAD's work on competition law and policy, and decided to recommend that the Fifth Review Conference hold a first voluntary peer review on competition law and policy.

C. Voluntary trust fund

A Berlin Consensus?

Voluntary instruments providing frameworks or processes that encourage voluntary adherence of stakeholders to sustainable approaches and practices

However, at the third and final session of the intergovernmental meeting of experts, a consensus could not be reached on whether funding for the secretariat of the Conference of Parties should be derived from a voluntary fund or from the regular budget of UNESCO.

After joining the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ukraine affirmed its adherence to modern standards of sea fishing by accepting a long list of voluntary obligations, including codes and action plans elaborated by FAO to ensure the sustainable use of marine resources.

But most importantly, it's voluntary.

Because those are voluntary distractions.

Voluntary contributions Annual Programme Fund

Voluntary contributions Supplementary Programme Fund

Voluntary contributions to UN Habitat

6610 Voluntary export restraint arrangements

Accounting policy for voluntary contributions

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Developing standards

Setting standards

Minimal standards

The most illustrative examples of NTBs include plant and animal health standards, food safety standards, environmental certification and other similar export quality standards.

11.1 States should ensure that all housing, land and property restitution procedures, institutions, mechanisms and legal frameworks are fully compatible with international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law and related standards, and that the right to voluntary return in safety and dignity is recognized therein.

To build and strengthen national regulatory, institutional and human capacities to overcome barriers to trade, and to meet voluntary and mandatory standards and conformity assessment procedures to be able to access external markets and improve the protection of consumers and the environment in internal markets

5. Welcomes the following voluntary commitments

(d) Voluntary contributions from Member States

Several alternative texts were proposed with a view to achieving a consensus, although a consensus was not reached.

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