Proposed criteria for an oversight body structure

CRITERIA FOR SELECTING AN INSTITUTION TO HOUSE THE GLOBAL MECHANISM

The selection of the institutions was based on the following criteria

B. Criteria for selecting an institution to house the global mechanism

SAICM PrepCom3 (September 2005)

ANNEX I CRITERIA FOR SELECTING AN INSTITUTION TO HOUSE 26 THE GLOBAL MECHANISM

They include the financial system, the marketing network, training facilities, R amp D institutes, standards and standards organizations, the stock exchange, property rights institutions, etc.

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Other institutions have different criteria for their lending activities.

That was part of the reason why the deliberations of such bodies were guided by criteria which were considerably more ambitious than the ones used by States.

Little guidance was provided to offices away from Headquarters, nor did standardized coverage criteria exist

E. Terms, conditions and financial criteria employed by multilateral lending institutions

(b) Criteria for evaluation of institutions, agencies and networks developed

International Atomic Energy Agency activities in the development of international standards for safety

b) Has the institutions developed any codes, standards or recommendations for best practices in this area?

Singapore strongly commends and endorses the Agency's efforts to promote adherence to IAEA safety standards and guidelines.

Radioactive waste is managed in accordance with the technical criteria of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Recommendation 3. A standard programme support charge of 13 per cent should be applied for agency execution, shared, as appropriate, between funding agency and executing agency.

The Agency for standards has been formed with the task of determining the standards of education, checking them, and assessing the quality of certificate creation.

The distinction between, on one hand, the accreditation bodies responsible for the formal recognition of a body or an individual as a competent certifier and, on the other hand, the certification body which audits and recognizes an entity as meeting a standard, such as ISO 14001, was highlighted.

Hence the need to strengthen multilateral verification standards in IAEA.

These norms and standards are now being applied in self assessments of each agency's evaluation activities.

For 58 years, the political standard setting organs have felt the need for an independent expert body.

For 58 years, the political standard setting organs have felt the need for an independent expert body.

Another related to standards by which international or bilateral development agencies operate.

(d) the adoption of projects that meet the central criterion of the IAEA Strategy.

In other words, a standard amount of 13 per cent programme support would be charged for agency execution.

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

Although the Codex Alimentarius Commission was accepted as the default international standards setting body, different fish standards could still be applied by importing countries.

Public institutions should not, however, be based on ethnic or religious criteria.

The International Basic Standards have been published by IAEA as Safety Series No. 115.

76. While UNFPA and the other agencies used standard common services agreements, they did not include performance targets or standards of service.

121. Responsibility for providing the training courses and internships lies with training institutes which call for tenders after having prepared their bids jointly with industrial firms.

The view was also expressed that basing the nationality of a corporation on the criterion of seat of its management , which was not derived from the Barcelona Traction case, could be acceptable if management were qualified as effective .

The diagrams contained in the present annex are for purposes of discussion only.

However, no detailed standard information regarding the role and activities of the participants is available.

4. The following standards form the framework for an internal control structure and have been categorized under general standards and detailed standards

They include manuals of best practice, guidelines, codes of conduct, guidance for the institutions of the Convention, criteria, indicators, standards labelling schemes, and protocols.

This new body should be more representative, should comply with the highest standards of objectivity and should avoid double standards as well as omissions or silences.

Reflection should also be pursued as to the possibility of identifying centrally standard indicators to measure performance at the organizational level.

Standards of accommodation for air travel

United Nations bodies, and in particular the Security Council, must put an end to such double standards.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the Common Auditing Standards of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

We strongly recommend that the Inter agency and Expert Group agree on an upgraded reporting system to improve the standard of reporting of countries to the international agencies.

Such a framework is provided by the Guidelines for Internal Control Standards approved by the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI).