A summary of the agreed standards are provided below.

Monitoring the implementation of agreed standards

Making officially agreed standards publicly available

Accordingly it is necessary for a minimum essential standard to be agreed upon and for a transition period to be set that would require states parties to move from the essential to the desirable standard.

Some distributors have chosen to adopt labour and environmental standards for their suppliers.

(d) Promote common evaluation and monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards

This implies respect for internationally agreed standards, in particular those promoted by the United Nations (UN EDIFACT e.g.) and the use of standard international product classification systems and of open telecommunications systems operating under agreed international technical standards.

(c) The need for national practices to meet internationally agreed minimum standards

These proceedings should be transparent and meet internationally agreed standards.

Clear criteria for the buy out will be established in consultation with staff.

In 2005, the group agreed on and published a set of norms and standards for evaluation work by United Nations agencies.

Internationally agreed standards would enhance trade and comparability of care.

Repetitive this may sound but these agreed parameters merit repetition and reiteration.

Consultation with international business on implementation of the Framework of Standards is now being initiated and pilot projects are being designed.

E. Ethical business behaviour

The parties also agreed on priority criteria for assisted returns based on the security situation of internally displaced persons in their places of origin.

The industry agreed standards programme was preceded by a series of consultations with focus groups earlier in the year.

The East Asia and the Pacific steering committee for the regional consultation has prepared draft minimum standards for child participation in consultations.

Internationally agreed standards of protection and preservation, such as the Kyoto Protocol, had to be put into practice without delay.

Accordingly, the Commission agreed to submit the proposed changes onfor expedited review by the Standards Committee.

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Standard business model vision, mission, values, processes.

The products offered in the shops are selected on the basis of studies concerning the requirements of communities and the criteria of satisfactory food standards.

CEN ISSS is the European Entry Point to the United Nations e business standardization activities and provides a comprehensive and integrated list of standardization services and products to facilitate e Business.

Common marking standards must therefore be established and agreement reached on common procedures, both at the level of national legislation and in the area of international cooperation.

C. Established standards

The decision on the logo was approved by consensus through e mail correspondence among the members of the Logo Approval Committee.

The revised Procurement Manual contains guidelines on supplier selection criteria.

There was a need for better standards and a more liberal approach to pricing in the area of commercial telecommunications.

Recalling that, in decision Ex.I 3, the Parties agreed to consider the elaboration of criteria and a methodology for authorizing multi year exemptions,

The organizations agreed that there was a need for non standard HS codes to process special transactions or special commodities reported by countries that could not be allocated to standard HS or SITC codes.

To encouraging the development of appropriate business codes, standards or best practices that prohibit corruption, bribery and related illicit practices in commercial transactions

New international business practices and standards had been adopted.

223. An IMO survey suggests that approximately 78 per cent of the merchant ships covered by the Code are expected to have complied with it by 1 July 1998.

There are many Financial Intelligence Units that meet agreed international standards, but an example of best practice is given below.

The revised guidelines also include agreed standards for classification of international search and rescue teams according to their capabilities in collapsed structure rescue.

Firms may prefer internationally agreed standards in meeting customer expectations.

Particular attention was also paid to the IMO commercial shipping standards, the European Union security standards, the United States rules on maritime security as well as other relevant national and international provisions

International and national regulatory and standards bodies have also taken up this issue and are now formulating and advising on minimum information security standards for international commercial partners.

Setting standards

A. Standard setting

The United Nations has begun to address this by working with organizations to achieve agreement on basic standards of observation.

Under article 1 of Law No. 10.520 of 17 July 2002, auctions can be used only for common goods and services, defined as those for which quality and performance standards can be objectively and precisely defined according to standard specifications used in the market.

It was noted that initial in this context meant that all criteria would be presented and evaluated against the stipulated selection criteria in the normal manner, but the price (and any other criteria to be determined through the auction) would be submitted to the electronic reverse auction, so as to determine the successful supplier.

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