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External sources (not reviewed)

It recapitulates all budget transfers, donations and special contributions added to the regular budget which were approved by the Executive Board or presented to

Another solution would be to link debt sustainability with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), grants

The excess of expenditure over income for the year of $39.8 million (in 2008 it was an excess of income over

(a) The Board of Governors may determine from

The net decrease reflects reductions under most objects of expenditure, including $242,800 under consultants, mainly as a consequence of the increased use of in-house expertise, where possible; $104,700 under experts, resulting mainly from concerted efforts to combine meetings or reduce the number of experts and the duration of meetings, whenever possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible; $460,800 under contractual services, primarily owing to increased utilization of electronic means of disseminating publications; $111,000 under furniture and equipment, reflecting reduced requirements for the replacement of furniture and office equipment resulting from extending the lifespan of

A number of specific comments were made as follows: the concept of food safety is universal, thus there should be no exception, as presently in Article 4.2, allowing exporting countries to export food, which does not comply with its national legislation; the issue of implementation of the Code, especially by countries lacking a control system, should be clarified; the present text may contradict some of the principles of Codex insofar as they establish and draw upon national regulatory frameworks; the ethics of equal

Resources sufficed to cover all projects to achieve compliance with the 2005 and 2007 targets under the Protocol and to fund all of the projects in the

While not every country had the scope for expanding fiscal policy, the

The report, which was submitted to the twentieth Meeting of States Parties for its

Other activities include support in the mobilization of technical assistance and financial resources for technical cooperation projects; development and implementation of a fund-raising strategy to broaden the funding base for technical cooperation; organization of consultative meetings with partners and donors;

The Library has also received requests, many in electronic form, for

The Representative further informed the Commission that the recently held World Health Assembly (May 2008) had adopted a resolution (WHA61.20) which indicated that the Assembly was encouraged by the work of the FAO/WHO through Codex on the Code of Hygienic Practice for Powdered Formulae for Infants and Young Children; that Member States were urged to implement through application and dissemination the WHO/FAO Guidelines on Safe Preparation, Storage and Handling of Powdered Infant Formula to minimize the risk of bacterial infection and to ensure that labelling conformed with standards, guidelines and recommendations of Codex taking into account resolution WHA58.32 and in

In this regard, the G20 Summit at Pittsburgh launched a framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, under which the deficit members of the G20, mainly the United States, pledge to undertake policies to support private