The forces of the United Nations Mission in Liberia will consolidate their locations and bases, shifting to a more mobile posture and working within the reduced strength of the military component of the Mission, in order to provide a security umbrella throughout the country, support the national security forces, conduct joint exercises with the new army, undertake inspections of inventories of weapons and ammunition obtained by the Government in accordance with the exemptions to the United Nations arms embargo for use by the national police, undertake cordon and search operations to retrieve illegal weapons, protect key United Nations and Government locations and installations and conduct regular air and ground patrols, in particular along the borders and in other high-risk areas.

Cost is determined using the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method and comprises all costs of purchase and other costs incurred in bringing the inventories to their present locations and conditions.

Upon disposal of North Asia on 28 December 2007 as set out in note 33(b), the Group had no inventories as at 31 December 2007.

Preparatory measures taken in time of peace for the safeguarding of cultural property against the foreseeable effects of an armed conflict pursuant to Article 3 of the Convention shall include, as appropriate, the preparation of inventories, the 34 planning of emergency measures for protection against fire or structural collapse, the preparation for the removal of movable cultural property or the provision for adequate in situ protection of such property, and the designation of competent authorities responsible for the safeguarding of cultural property.

The main issues of concern were how to compile activity data (a particular difficulty for poorer countries with problems in accessing satellite imageries, inventories or historic data) and how, based on this information, to accurately estimate emissions and removals by sinks.

If the factors that give rise to the provision in prior years are not in effect in current year, as a result that the net realisable value of the inventories is higher than cost, provision would be reversed within the impaired cost, and recognised in profit or loss.

Inventories are finished goods or merchandise held by an enterprise for sale in the ordinary course of business, or work in progress in the process of production for such sale, or in the form of materials or supplies to be consumed in the production process or in the rendering of services.

Changes in inventories would reflect reductions only if all actions are considered.

Cost of inventories includes RMB153,021,000 (2008 : RMB144,338,000) relating to staff costs, depreciation expenses and write down of inventories which amounts are also included in the respective total amounts disclosed separately above or in Note 5(ii) for each of these types of expenses.

Costs of inventories include the transfer from equity of any gains/losses on qualifying cash flow hedges relating to purchases of raw materials.

It was also necessary to: (a) redirect investment to the farm sector; (b) regulate international markets with a view to improving wealth distribution; (c) keep track of world food inventories in order to prevent speculation and improve the coordination of global agricultural policy; (d) regulate private agricultural markets; (e) establish food distribution networks in conjunction with WFP; and (f) limit export restrictions and allow developing countries autonomy over food production.

In order to realize the potential benefits of copyright, some developing countries have established collective management societies, which represent the rights of artists, authors and performers and collect royalties from licensing copyrighted works held in their inventories.

Where expectation is different from an original estimate, the difference will impact the carrying values of inventories and may result in write-downs of inventories in the period in which such estimates have been changed.

Where the actual outcome or expectation in future is different from the original estimate, such differences will impact the carrying value of inventories and provision charge/written back in the period in which the estimate has been changed.

The amount of any reversal of any write down of inventories, arising from an increase in net realisable value, is recognised as a reduction in the amount of inventories recognised as an expense in the year in which the reversal occurs.

In industrialized market economies such as the United States, Korea, and Japan, investors, producers, consumers, governments, environmental organizations, and the public have been effectively united by their publicly accessible pollutant release and transfer inventories to deliver both environmentally and economically desirable outcomes (Dasgupta et al. 2004; Konar and Cohen 1997, 2001; Decker et al. 2005; Agarwal et al. 2010).

The SBI encouraged the CGE to take into account those recommendations in the conduct of the remaining CGE regional training workshops on national GHG inventories and the update of its GHG training materials.

Other preventive measures included the provision of training and capacitybuilding for police and other institutions involved and for the public at large, as well as the establishment of national inventories, lists of cultural objects and, if possible, a photographic archive of such objects and the establishment of a national database, with the possibility of linking national databases to each other and to international databases, in particular the INTERPOL database.

One Member supported the idea of funding halon banking projects in countries with no halon consumption as, pursuant to decision 47/10, countries with zero halon baselines but a low level of documented halon inventories were permitted to submit project proposals to manage their halon stocks.

Segment results form the basis of measurement used for assessing segment performance and represent profit or loss before bank interest income, provision/(reversal of provision) on inventories, fair value adjustment of investment properties and investment properties under development, finance costs, income tax and items not specifically attributed to individual segments, such as unallocated head office and corporate expenses.

Establishment of ICT and other infrastructure at the national, regional and international levels, such as databases, traditional knowledge digital libraries (TKDLs), inventories, registers and other platforms, to complement legal and policy frameworks that States and communities may develop.

Segment assets consist primarily of land use rights, investment properties, other properties, plant and equipment, available-for-sale financial assets, deposits, loans and receivables, held-to-maturity investments, inventories, properties for sale, trade and other receivables, deposits and prepayments, sales proceeds held in stakeholders’ accounts, amounts due from associates, pledged bank deposits and bank balances and cash.

Given the highly liquid nature of these inventories, which represent a significant share of current assets, Glencore believes it is appropriate to consider them together with cash equivalents in analysing Group net debt levels and computing certain debt coverage ratios and credit trends.

New commitments shall lead to absolute emission reductions for the respective Parties compared with the national total greenhouse gas emissions as reported in national greenhouse gas inventories available at the time of the conclusion of the review.

The scope of the updates on national GHG inventories should be consistent with capacities, time constraints, data availabilities and the level of support provided by developed countries Parties for biennial update reporting.

These inventories are readily convertible into cash due to their liquid nature, widely available markets, and the fact that any associated price risk is covered either by a physical sale transaction or a hedge transaction on a commodity exchange or with a highly rated counterparty.