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[...] [...] boosts brand recognition, and reduces [...]

They are an audacious expression of the brand’s identity; a reinvention of the way time is read.

(g) What measures have been taken to increase the identification of migrants, migrant workers and their families who have experienced violence, including during smuggling, as well as to increase investigations and prosecutions resulting from allegations of violence against migrants, migrant workers and their families?

[...] [...] energy labeling system; considering the [...] [...]

Thus strong rights may deter investment flows but facilitate technology transfer under licensing, which we return to in the next section.

[...] [...] labelling and instruments for physico-chemical measurements.

[...] [...] universal design as a means of guaranteeing [...]

[...] growth in the literacy rate has been especially high in Nepal (24 per cent) and in Bangladesh and India (18 per cent).

[...] [...] including those impeding visibility between the border [...]

Cooperation with the regional Eurasian Patent Organization will continue to be given particular attention and will be further strengthened to promote links with the PCT system as well as to join efforts to facilitate the use of IP systems and assets for the sustainable development in the region.

[...] such regulatory systems and instruments in respect of IPRs is well documented.20 Indeed, it is perhaps an overlooked fact that developed countries have introduced stronger IP protection in the context of competition regimes and other regulatory regimes designed to ensure that [...]

[...] [...] “culture and development” knowledge management scheme that will [...] [...]

For a number of reasons, it is not always possible to draft specific provisions in a suitable or discrete form, such as a convention or a model law, for incorporation into national legal systems: national legal systems often use widely disparate legislative techniques and approaches for solving a given issue, States may not yet be ready to agree on a single approach or common rule, there may not be consensus on the need to find a uniform solution to a particular issue, or there may be different levels of consensus on the key issues of a particular subject and how they should be addressed.

[...] [...] functions, as well as a degree of confusion among programme [...] [...]

Other challenges include an increasing need for a systemic and sustained approach to innovation policy and practice, including the effective distribution and commercialization of new technologies and the need for better dissemination of technologies through the patent system.

[...] [...] effect that aspects of intellectual property protection [...] [...]

[...] and the high literacy rate attained, [...] [...]

[...] [...] local and indigenous knowledge systems as well [...]

The outputs to be delivered under this component are set out in paragraph 29C.35 of the budget document, and include the provision of a wide array of training programmes designed to build and sustain the Organization’s leadership and managerial capacity; improve the human and financial resources management expertise of programme managers and staff with administrative responsibilities; upgrade the information technology skills of Secretariat staff; build and strengthen linguistic capabilities; and support career development and upgrade substantive skills.

[...] [...] information and knowledge in the public [...] [...]

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 furniture and equipment; and $781,600 under grants and contributions, mainly owing to the termination of the contract with the International Computing Centre.

That, in view of the Administration's failure to take effective action to amend the 15 relevant Ordinances which bind the Government so that they also bind the offices of the CPG in the HKSAR and to complete the review of the applicability of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to the CPG offices in the HKSAR, resulting in these offices not being required to abide by these Ordinances, and as the Administration has delayed the adaptation of the 35 relevant Ordinances which are expressed to bind, or apply to, the "Crown", this Council expresses serious concern and urges the Administration to explain the reasons for the slow progress of the work and to expedite amendment and adaptation of the relevant Ordinances.