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(5) set up a public trustee that operates under the Government, a public body or a voluntary organization which charges lower administration fees, and provide low-risk capital preservation funds which are guaranteed to be inflation-linked for employees to choose, so as to achieve the objective of increasing competition to make other trustees to lower fees and improve performance

As emissions from vehicles with old design standards are substantially higher than that of new models, phasing out aged commercial vehicles holds the key to better roadside air quality.

Another Member State noted that the sunset clause idea had not yet found its way into the C/5 document, as there were no suggestions as yet that a particular programme had only a limited duration.

[...] terminal phase-out management plan for ODS in the refrigeration and air-conditioning sector in Saint Lucia and the terminal phase-out management plan for Annex A Group I substances in Uruguay; for Italy, the umbrella project for terminal phase-out of ODS in the solvent sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the phase-out of methyl bromide as a soil fumigant in Morocco, and the terminal CTC phase-out project in Serbia; and for Spain, the phase-out of methyl [...]

[...] [...] post from the Disarmament and Peace Affairs [...] [...]

For the purposes of more comprehensive protection, each State is encouraged to take all appropriate measures, in accordance with international law, to cooperate with other States concerned with a view to establishing jurisdiction over, and providing effective criminal sanctions against, those persons who have committed or have ordered to be committed acts referred to above (VII – Individual criminal responsibility) and who are found present on its territory, regardless of their nationality and the place where such act occurred.

The Executive Committee may wish to take note of the verification and progress reports on the implementation of the national CFC phase-out plan (NPP) for Argentina, and approve the annual implementation programme for 2008-2009 with a proviso requesting the Government of Argentina and UNIDO to ensure that future verification will include the country’s monitoring of its activities under the Agreement through the monitoring institutions defined in Appendix 5-A of the Agreement.

Sunset clauses should therefore be introduced for those activities that have reached the end of their natural life or which other organizations are better equipped to deal with.

Under the impact of economic transformation and the decline of the manufacturing industry, the middle-age workers are not only deprived of the "prosperous fruits" of their hard work, but they are also worried all the time about losing their jobs, about the poor prospect of changing jobs and even more about their retirement life.

The company identified the need to replace its ageing PC-based POS systems with a reliable and high-performance POS system which was specifically built for the retail environment.

Introducing the proposal, the representative of India said that by decision XIX/6 the parties had agreed that funding available through the Multilateral Fund should be stable and sufficient to meet all agreed incremental costs to enable parties operating under paragraph 1 of article 5 to comply with the accelerated phase-out schedule for both consumption and production of HCFCs.

Clause 11 of the Bill proposes to add sections 67(2A) and 67(2B) to the effect that at the end of the trial of an election petition that relates to the inclusion of the name of a person in, or the exclusion of the name of a person from a precedence list, CFI must determine whether the name is to be included in the list, and at the end of the trial of an election petition that relates to the ranking of a person on a precedence list, CFI must determine whether the ranking of the person on the list is correct and, if not correct, what is the correct ranking.

At its sixty-second session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to update the compilation of decisions of international courts, tribunals and other bodies referring to the articles, and to invite Governments to submit information on their practice in that regard; also requested the Secretary-General to submit that material well in advance of its sixty-fifth session; and decided to further examine, within the framework of a working group of the Sixth Committee, the question of a convention on responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts or other appropriate action on the basis of the articles (resolution 62/61).

His delegation requested the international community, as a matter of urgency: to take all the measures indicated in the conclusions and recommendations of the report contained in document A/64/339, including the imposition of sanctions on Israel if it failed to comply fully with all United Nations resolutions; to request Israel to allow the members of the Special Committee to enter the occupied territories in order to fulfil its mandate; and to require the Israeli Government to pay appropriate compensation for the damage it had inflicted on the Palestinians and the population of the occupied Syrian Golan.

[...] [...] positions could be phased out and taken [...]

[...] [...] time, including the replacement of paper [...]

In the ensuing discussion, one representative, referring to decision XIX/6 on adjustments to the Montreal Protocol with regard to HCFCs, said that neither paragraph 5 nor paragraph 11 (b) of that decision, on the funding for parties operating under paragraph 1 of article 5 to comply with the accelerated HCFC phase-out schedule and the funding criteria for projects and programmes, referred to maximization of climate benefits or additional funding for the Multilateral Fund.

This situation will be aggravated by the number of ships going out of service in the next few years following the global phase-out of single-hull oil tankers; the large estimated backlog of old vessels still operating because of high freight rates; and the general boom in shipbuilding over the last few years.

The amount of $21,700 would cover the requirements for replacing existing servers, as required by the vendor agreement, and of providing support for the Operations Processing Integrated Control System and SWIFT.

The Russian Federation had started to develop new, improved tools for mine detection and disposal, had established a national system of technical requirements for landmines and had developed a plan for the destruction of obsolete mines.

Honduras has presented to the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol a national proposal for the elimination of CFC in Honduras, whereby support will be given to the sectors with the highest consumption of CFC and the conversion of domestic refrigerating equipment will be encouraged, or else the use of substitute substances such as hydrocarbons, and the legal framework and national initiatives to comply with domestic obligations under the Montreal Protocol will be reinforced.

It is used to guide the research and industrial development of water conservation technology, key technological investment trends for water conservation projects, promote the wide application of water conservation technology, restrict and eliminate outdated and high water-consuming technologies, techniques and equipment and provide technological support to water resource planning and water conservation development.

For instance, the less dependable “non-centrally dispatched” supply sources and the phasing out of highly polluting small thermal power plants with low efficiency might cause the forecast generation capacity not fully realisable in short term.

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With the phasing out of the Multifibre Agreement (MFA) quotas under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, and given the rise in food and oil prices and the global financial crisis, the Asian and Pacific countries with special needs, including the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, are continuing to face tremendous challenges in maintaining their economic growth and further implementing poverty reduction programmes.