B. Transparency and comparability

69. The Commission recalled that the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA), established in 1990, was designed to increase gradually federal civil service salaries to achieve comparability with non federal salaries by 2002.

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It would help to determine the comparability of national inventories.

Omissions and exclusions of some sources do affect the comparability.

Global and regional indicator sets should ensure comparability across regions.

Internationally agreed standards would enhance trade and comparability of care.

This will be instrumental in the harmonization of national practices and will result in improved international economic statistics with enhanced comparability.

The work will start with an in depth examination of the comparability of definitions and key terms at the European level.

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Hence, the transparency and the comparability of the emission inventory was not sufficient.

For the purposes of transparency and comparability, budgeted expenditure for the liaison offices will be presented with the Commissioner General's Office in Chapter 7.

These policy demands require conceptual coherence and statistical comparability across goods and services producing activities.

UNHCR was invited to convene a meeting to improve the international comparability of refugee statistics.

UNCTAD continued its efforts in the area of international harmonization of financial reporting with a view to improving comparability of financial data provided by TNCs.

Improvement of tariff transparency, particularly in the sectors of peak tariffs, and their comparability with trade data depends crucially on cooperation by the countries concerned.

16.14 The subprogramme will continue to improve the comparability of official statistics in the ECE region.

They felt that they would lead to greater transparency and comparability in relation to overhead costs.

(b) Seek to enhance the comparability of and focus on non Annex I Party national communications

Within this component, the programme needs to develop assessment tools to monitor implementation, data quality and comparability.

Another delegation felt that with the adoption of uniform definitions related to programme support, and management and administration, greater comparability would be possible with the budgets of other related United Nations agencies.

The purpose of the compendium is to standardize conference servicing procedures and practices across the duty stations with a view to promoting comparability and strengthening planning and coordination.

None of the problems with the comparability of CO2 emission estimates from this sector identified in the compilation and synthesis of first national communications appear to be resolved.

The use of regression analysis techniques ensured that the greatest number of United Nations common system staff had the highest degree of comparability with external local labour market conditions.

There is little comparability with previous data, and income is used as an indicator of well being, rather than consumption which is, among others, a more reliable measurement of poverty.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to invite the Office of Internal Oversight Services to liaise with other United Nations audit services so as to harmonize internal audit ratings, in order to allow comparability among organizations.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to invite the Office of Internal Oversight Services to liaise with other United Nations audit services so as to harmonize internal audit ratings, in order to allow comparability among organizations.

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the Central Product Classification were formulated in terms of relevance, comparability and continuity.

It is therefore particularly important to ensure methodological consistency and financial comparability between the initial calculation and the midterm recalculation.

The diversity of surveys conducted in developing countries affects the comparability between countries and makes it difficult to draw conclusions.

For full comparability, UNICEF would then need to include the portion of Cash Assistance to Governments used to procure goods.

Those changes are presented at the same nominal value as the revised appropriation in order to permit real resource comparability.

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In order to improve comparability and quality of data, the Centre recommends the establishment of key indicators and core data.

With respect to the first of those items, the chairperson reported that during the intersessional period a review of existing indicators of corporate social responsibility had been undertaken with a special focus on their comparability and relevance.

The Secretariat attempted to identify bodies bearing similarity with the Conference of the Parties, in order to enhance the comparability of the information to be brought to the attention of the Conference.

The international comparability of databases maintained by international organizations is hampered because different revisions versions and levels of classification are applied.

However, the pursuit of current figures should not have a negative impact on the equally important considerations of comprehensiveness and comparability.

Uniform drug abuse measurement tools are essential for cross country comparability and the assessment of trends at national and regional levels.

An observer referred to the need for increased regional cooperation in prevention, treatment, applying research methodologies and achieving comparability of epidemiological data.

With regard to Tackling the problem , the questions changed significantly during the revision of the questionnaire and, therefore, the present analysis includes only the reporting periods 2000 2002 and 2002 2004 to ensure comparability.

Moreover, there are concerns regarding comparability of the national data and the need to harmonize relevant methodologies is becoming more and more apparent.

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities were formulated in terms of improving and strengthening its relevance and comparability with other classifications, while considering its continuity.

(p) Supporting the development of national data processing capabilities with a view to the improvement of the quality, relevance, timeliness and intercountry comparability of statistical data and facilitating access to national, subregional and regional databases

Information systems will be further developed, ensuring compatibility with, and maximizing access to various sources of data and information quality and comparability of data and information on the national and international levels will be improved.