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He believed the text as it stood left enough latitude for what was the accepted practice.

Your concept paper (S/2010/165) provides a helpful summary of what has been achieved since the Council’s last debate on the issue (see S/PV.5968) and where there is still room for improvement.

Yet, others, while considering that there could be a scope for more flagship projects, especially intersectoral ones, felt that a proliferation of such projects will reduce the status they should enjoy.

To the extent that copying, particularly on a commercial scale, is driven by the ratio of the selling price to the cost of producing copies, there must be scope for the use of more differential pricing in developing countries that would either be revenue-neutral or even revenue-enhancing for producing industries.

Welfare and scope for development of each child is guaranteed through a family-centred approach and an inter-sectoral systematic cooperation network.

According to a further view, referral to specific dispute settlement procedures could be difficult to require, and States ought to be allowed a margin of appreciation in the choice of means of settlement of disputes.

The automatic contribution adjustment mechanism mentioned in paragraph 26(iii) above might operate as follows: if the ten-year technical results projections for the Fund, established by the consulting actuary, show that the Fund’s reserves can no longer meet the criterion of 18 months (plus or minus three months) of benefits payments over the next five years, an adjustment rate, based on the average rate of medical expenses over the last five years, will be applied to the contractual contribution.

It regretted the fact that no recommendations had been made regarding the law on police procedure, which gives a wide margin of discretion to police officers.

The fraction of fully exploited stocks, which produce catches that are very close to their maximum sustainable production and have no room for further expansion and require effective management to avoid decline, has shown the smallest change over time, with its percentage stable at about 50 percent from 1974 to 1985, then falling to 43 percent in 1989 before gradually increasing to 57 percent in 2009.

While the Inspector appraises CEB to be a well-established body and notes recent improvements, notably the acceptance of UNDG as one of its subsidiary bodies and the adoption of a “firewall” within UNDP as an attempt to ensure transparency, impartiality and fairness in its operations, he nevertheless believes that much more improvement can still be made in CEB to well and truly lead coherence and integration efforts.

Nevertheless, at 77% on track results in 2010 there is still scope for improvement in WIPO’s performance in the areas most relevant to the achievement of the MDGs.

To provide universal care to its citizens, Israel offered a wide array of options tailored to the gender, age and cultural and religious background of patients and ensured that treatment was followed by intensive social rehabilitation work.

The phrasing of all provisions should therefore not leave any room for interpretation to the contrary.

While States parties have a wide margin of discretion in selecting the steps they consider most appropriate for the full realization of the right, they must immediately take those steps intended to guarantee access by everyone, without discrimination, to cultural life.

The use of the inclusive phrasing “contrary to the aims of the law” would also provide the competent authority with the flexibility to prohibit other potentially objectionable activities of private military and security companies.

One agency noted that with respect to annual tranches of MYAs and RMP components that have limited flexibility, implementation delays can be caused by difficulties in using remaining funds after planned activities are completed, for additional relevant or complementary activities that were either omitted originally or which had surfaced during the life of the project.

While the shock of the disaster may provide opportunities for introducing social and other changes, the window for such changes is quite small.

However in view of the departure on retirement over the last three years of three senior officers including one of the two deputies and the departure during 2008 of the remaining Deputy Chief Officer at the end of the year as well as the developmental work to be done on the HCFCs over the next couple of years, the Secretariat requests the flexibility to revert to the Executive Committee with a revised staffing structure in 2008 to redefine roles and responsibilities and enable it respond in the most effective way possible to the Executive Committee’s expectations in reviewing projects and addressing financial planning and policy issues.

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[...] [...] flexibility should be allowed, [...]

[...] [...] differential pricing, with suitable safeguards.

The phrase “in itself” nonetheless left open the possibility that the responsibility of the author of the reservation might be engaged as a result of the effects produced by the reservation.

[...] [...] resumption in all remaining districts and units.

Countries need to assure that their commitments allow for sufficient policy flexibility to pursue regulatory experimentation throughout the ISS reform process.

In addition, the strength of the military and police components would be rebalanced by using existing headroom in the military component to add 50 police officers, to reinforce the existing formed police units, in view of the anticipated increase in civil disturbances and the protection demands.

As discussed below, certain reforms of international rules, which do not conflict with global objectives such as safeguarding global public goods, could help widen margins; but even with those reforms, a high degree of determination and coherent efforts by national policymakers will still be required if development strategies are to succeed.

The international Radio Regulations are nevertheless oriented mainly towards matters of a global or regional character, and in many areas there is scope for making special arrangements on a bilateral or multilateral basis.

The decision by the Government of the Sudan to expel 13 international NGOs from the Sudan and to revoke the licences of three local NGOs is a direct and immediate threat to the continuity of international humanitarian assistance in Darfur and damages eight operations in the rest of the northern Sudan.