45. Translation work done contractually must also meet the Secretariat s quality standards.

To remain competitive and satisfy clients now, UNOPS must improve the quality of these contractually obligated client reports.

(b) Property rights created contractually to secure all types of obligations, including future obligations, fluctuating obligations and obligations described in a generic way

An additional amount of 6,018,000 is requested under air transportation services, which is attributable in part to increased requirements for the contractually provided airfield services.

More than one third of contractual translators who work on a self revision basis are retirees and some 17 per cent of the total translation workload is processed contractually.

Thus the cargo owner will wish to claim against both the carrier, which is contractually liable, and the performing party, which is liable for the damage that it actually caused.

Thus, during the biennium 1996 1997, the United Nations Office at Vienna was able to cover in session translation into English contractually for some meetings, eliminating the need for non local temporary staff.

This would mean that when cargo is carried under a service contract, the draft instrument liability regime would apply by default, but all or only some of its provisions could be contracted out of or be contractually modified.

First, all existing international regimes establish minimum levels of carrier liability, which apply mandatorily, that is to say the relevant substantive rules on liability of the carrier may not be contractually modified to the detriment of the shipper or consignee.

Unless both contracting parties pay due attention to all of the potentially applicable provisions of the draft instrument, as modified, excluded or supplemented contractually, one or other of the contracting parties may find itself by default to have agreed to potentially disadvantageous terms.

Comment There is a majority, but not a unanimous, view in the replies received that the Instrument shall include a one way mandatory system meaning that it is contractually acceptable to increase the liability of any of the persons mentioned in article 88.1.

They are paid at a contractually specified time, which may be years away. Thus, if a financial firm appears to have difficulties, its bondholders cannot stage a run on its assets and how these bondholders fare cannot be expected to trigger runs by bondholders in other companies.

On the issue of meeting records, the representative of the Secretariat provided clarification on the measures that had been taken to expedite the processing of summary records, both in house and contractually, with a view to ensuring their issuance within four months after the end of a session.

By establishing minimum levels of liability, which apply mandatorily and may not be contractually modified, existing liability regimes seek to ensure the protection of cargo interests with little bargaining power, i.e. small shippers and third party consignees, against unfair contract terms unilaterally introduced by the carrier in its standard terms of contract.

19. The feasibility of assigning United Nations staff to maintenance and implementation tasks, especially for conducting training courses, in preference to retaining contractual services, should be explored, as in house implementation and maintenance support will be more cost effective than contractually supplied services. Further, implementation support staff should be identified, trained and positioned in time.

A lack of consistency has been one of the European Union s sins in attempting to establish a value based foreign policy. The EU sought to build a partnership of economic and political cooperation in the Mediterranean region, for example, in which financial assistance and trade liberalization would be contractually linked to progress in advancing human rights and developing democratic institutions.

Yet familiarity with one or the other instrument covered by the Convention is not universal, there is a wide absence of legislative provisions dealing with them, practices concerning the two types of instruments have differed in certain respects, and important questions confronting users, practitioners and courts in the daily life of these instruments are beyond the power of the parties to settle contractually.

11. The contract sum was for ECU 52,655,450, based on the first issued set of bills of quantities. Allowance for inflation and exchange rate fluctuations, to be calculated by a contractually defined mechanism, was not included in the contract sum, as indicated in the report of the Secretary General to the General Assembly at its forty fifth session (A C.5 45 53, paras. 19 and 20), and was estimated at an additional amount of ECU 9.2 million during the three years of construction.