Focus on normative and support measures (cross sectoral issues)

(a) A normative segment, during which the Commission would discharge its treaty based and normative functions, including mandates received from the General Assembly and the Council, and deal with emerging drug control issues

Normative dimension

Normative action

II. The normative framework

Its role is fundamentally normative.

Operational activities in support of normative principles

The meeting in The Hague would focus on the legislative and normative aspects of the discussions, whereas the St. Petersburg meeting would address implementation issues in respect of Hague themes.

General normative framework for the protection of human rights

Sometimes there was a gap in the normative framework.

The normative basis in this field is rather obsolete.

Actually, a treaty could contain both normative and synallagmatic provisions.

It might seem at first that all treaties were normative.

That term should not be confused with the concepts of auto normative acts (imposing obligations on the author) and hetero normative acts (imposing obligations on other States).

He noted that the normative form had been accompanied by elements of open mindedness and that he had deliberately left open several issues for the formation of collective opinion within the Commission.

This type of normative approach actually presents forced and repeated marriages.

These principles provide a normative framework covering situations of internal displacement.

This goes beyond philanthropy and such normative issues as paying ones taxes, abiding by the rule of law in host countries and refraining from bad corporate behaviour (such as employing restrictive or discriminatory business practices).

He said that law remained distinct from moral or religious normative systems.

First, the normative treaties to which those principles applied must be identified.

UNDCP activities in policy development and methodology work also include normative functions.

We welcome this positive development as a step towards a new normative framework.

Normative framework for the implementation of the principle of equality and non discrimination

Staff of the regional offices are contributing to the normative activities of UN Habitat.

It had eventually been decided to take a descriptive rather than a normative approach.

Efforts to establish criteria necessarily mean developing sets of normative statements about administrative operation.

The Division for Treaty Affairs carries out most of the normative functions of UNODC.

Normative documents were produced to guide practices by the health services and community actions.

It will complement and support other programme activities of a normative and catalytic character.

The programme of work includes, for example, normative activities and information collection and analysis.

16. Calls upon UN Habitat to strengthen efforts to coordinate and implement its normative and operational activities through the enhanced normative and operational framework elaborated in the medium term strategic and institutional plan, reinforcing its normative activities, and invites all countries in a position to do so to support the activities of UN Habitat in this regard

Strengthening linkages between the normative work of the United Nations system and its operational activities

The regional offices are also expected to contribute to the normative activities of UN Habitat.

Strengthening linkages between the normative work of the United Nations system and its operational activities

On the whole, normative acts in effect in Latvia comply with requirements of the Conventions.

Without the moral and normative weight of the Treaty, such achievements would have been unlikely.

These normative acts define the market economy principle as the fundamental one in this respect.

316. Normative acts relating to funds to support theatre activities have still to be drafted.

Moreover, a clear cut distinction could not be made between normative treaties and synallagmatic treaties.

Within the system, renewed effort is being made to link research, normative and operational activities.

In 1999, UN Habitat adopted a strategic vision that sought to balance normative and operational activities.

A merely normative treaty would not serve the combined purposes of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

The concept of control would then have to be widened so as to encompass normative control.

The normative framework for the right to education as well as its application was highly significant.

We believe that attempts to unilaterally rewrite or redefine the normative framework is a dangerous experiment.