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AUVs have considerable range and can be configured with sub-bottom profilers, sidescan sonar and high resolution intertia navigation systems.

[...] Not mount acoustic sensors on [...]

Several training needs have been identified, including training in research-vessel electronics and sonar techniques, in the use of software for data compilation and exchange and in data-collection techniques, as well as the training of local scientists in ecosystem studies and modelling, survey methodologies, ageing and fecundity studies.

The guidelines include source-specific monitoring and mitigation measures aimed at reducing environmental impacts from high-power sonar, seismic surveys and air gun usage, coastal and offshore construction works, offshore platforms, playback sound exposure experiments and other sources of undersea noise.

Using sonar identification, dive teams recovered foreign objects that were potentially blocking safe passage through the channel.

Sinking chemicals are more difficult to monitor but the use of sonar, underwater video cameras mounted on a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) or a matrix of weighted sorbents may allow the spread of the pollutant to be mapped on the sea bed.

By monitoring the level of these emissions, referenced against known background levels at the same frequency, key events can be automatically and quickly detected on the grinding machine as they occur.

The Commission further noted that the Executive Committee did not reach consensus on deleting the statement on voluntary application but recommended that it should be considered on a case by case basis by the relevant subsidiary body including the possibility to transfer the provisions in the annex to the body of the standard.

[...] [...] positions of Belgrade and Pristina on the report which [...] [...]

[...] [...] application of the Cartagena Action Plan [...]

The following elements of quality education were highlighted: focus on assistance in curricula review and revision, particularly the introduction of values education and ethical approaches, in accordance with national priorities and Arab needs; “learner-centred” education; improvement of teaching including capacity-building and teacher training; improvement in the status of teachers; development of benchmarking and assessment; elaboration of national standards regarding quality education.

[...] [...] (submitted by: Austria, Belgium, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Congo, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Finland, Iceland, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Samoa, Senegal, Slovenia, Sweden, Tuvalu, Uruguay; co-sponsored by: Barbados, Costa Rica, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Monaco, Pakistan, Solomon Islands, Suriname, and Zambia), requesting [...] [...]

The majority of recommendations had been identified as constructive and target-oriented, and many of the recommended measures had already been incorporated in plans of action and were at different stages of implementation.

It also considered the issue from a more general point of view in resolution 1373 (2001) on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts (the Council “[noted] with concern the close connection between international terrorism and transnational organized crime, illicit drugs, money-laundering, illegal arms-trafficking, and illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials”) and in the presidential statement (S/PRST/2009/32) on peace and security in Africa (“the Security Council notes with concern the serious threats posed in some cases by drug trafficking and related transnational organized crime to international security in different regions of the world, including in Africa”).

[...] [...] settlement procedure for these standards; [...] [...]

[...] office, its spotty reputation for programme [...] [...]

[...] [...] established a causal link between the claimed damage and the construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; (g) the claimed damage was in fact sustained; (h) the documents and assertions in support of the claim [...] [...]

However, in the event that the conditional interpretative declaration actually “behaves like” a reservation, the question of whether it meets the conditions for the permissibility of reservations does have a real impact on the content (and even the existence) of treaty relations.

Subsequently, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, China, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Morocco, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Spain, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States of America and Zimbabwe joined the co-sponsors.