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UNESCO as a whole aligned both its Medium-Term Strategy (31 C/4) as well as its biennial programmes and budgets (31 C/5 and 32 C/5) fully with the Dakar Framework for Action and the Dakar goals.

The challenge of a 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns is to facilitate a swift shift in unsustainable consumption and production patterns in order to remain within the carrying capacities of ecosystems while ensuring upward convergence in living standards across the planet.

The company stated that the feasibility of synchronizing SSE reporting requirements with HKEx or international requirements “depends on the government’s requirement on making SOE related information fully available to the public.

Along with the other United Nations Common System organizations, UNESCO participates actively at ICSC meetings, to ensure that ICSC decisions take full account of the potential impact on the delivery of programme and operational objectives.

The initiative to harmonize national legislation with the Convention has been undertaken for that purpose, and the adoption of the Offences and Penalties Act is the best example of progress in that respect.

The degree to which the use and application of non-core resources are subject to and aligned with the mandates, guidelines, priorities and goals established by intergovernmental governing bodies is at best indirect.

These initiatives may include, inter alia, NGO schools, community schools, private companies, community learning centres, educational religious institutions, etc. For some countries, it is thus important to bring these non-formal education initiatives up to the same standards as their formal education systems, so as to ensure that all of their citizens are able to access a modern and quality education, without any kind of discrimination.

This did not imply that Codex should harmonize with PFS, it implied that member countries should strive to update Codex standards when new information or experience suggested that such an update was helpful in promoting public health.

The wider United Nations system provides a rich learning environment that enables UNESCO to align its practices with other United Nations agencies and thereby “raise its game”.

[...] [...] with those paid by other United Nations agencies and the World Bank, and in the light of the individual’s [...]

[...] [...] significant progress to be made on convergence towards the living standards of other EU members.

All detention facilities will be in accordance with requirements set forth by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.

[...] [...] agenda and to aligning its instruments [...]

The laws fully reflect Thailand’s objective of conforming with international laws and standards.

On 28 June 2011, at the fifty-third executive session of the Trade and Development Board, the governing body of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), participants decided to align the modalities of UNCTAD cooperation with IPU with the practices of the General Assembly, thereby granting observer status to IPU.

Both private and non-profit international investors warmly welcomed the prospect of the SSE requiring extractive companies to report their payments at a country level at the time of initial public offerings (IPOs), similar to HKEx requirements, or annually, similar to US and EU requirements.

[...] and strategies as well as the MDGs.

Delegations welcomed the report, emphasizing its improved assessment and analysis of results and challenges and lessons learned; its harmonization with the reports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other United Nations entities; and its closer alignment with the comprehensive policy review.

However, the Inspectors believe than in addition to harmonizing business practices at a system-wide level certain mobility policies might require a review, in order to align and make them more coherent with generally accepted principles of good human resources management while taking into consideration system-wide issues related to mobility.

These examples illustrate that States alone or in cooperation with other stakeholders may successfully resort to alternatives to the criminalization of irregular migration or align their laws with international law and human rights standards.

As part of the jointly funded activities in the United Nations Budget, a first project, known as “the accounting standards project” was started in 2005 to determine the way forward for the United Nations system to align with appropriate accounting standards63 .

Parliaments should therefore be increasingly included in efforts to align development programmes with the priorities set by the national authorities.

The demand for OPEC crude is expected to be almost unchanged in 2012, as an increase in non-OPEC supply will match the increase in global demand.

He also noted that many of the recently created category 2 institutes and centres were already in alignment with the key elements of the new strategy, but that there would need to be a review of some of the older agreements with institutes and centres so as to ensure that they are in conformity with the new proposed agreement.

This is mentioned expressly so that there can be no doubt whatsoever that this type of effect can only be produced if the conditions for the validity of reservations with intermediate effect set out in this guideline are met.

[...] [...] best practices that were relevant to the financial services business.

[...] [...] timelines with those stipulated [...]

While some steps had already been taken to bring the financial arrangements of the United Nations Office at Nairobi into line with those of similar United Nations administrative offices, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 62/236, much remained to be done.