European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)

ICITO, Genevab EPPO, Paris

UNESCO, in cooperation with Conservation International, Intel (United States of America) and Nippon Electric Company (NEC) (Japan), has introduced the use of remote sensing and GIS technologies in biosphere reserve management.

Remote sensing and GIS technologies were introduced in biosphere reserve management by UNESCO in cooperation with Conservation International, Intel (United States of America) and Nippon Electric Company (Japan).

EPPO European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization

25. Under the Convention on Biological Diversity, WMO promoted conservation and the rational use of resources, helped to forecast and combat forest fires, protected agricultural production and crops and promoted the conservation of marine species and the operation of fishing industries.

Family Care International

Within the framework of a cooperative project of UNESCO, Intel and Conservation International to be implemented in 1996 to introduce GIS and computerized technologies in biosphere reserves in developing countries, short term GIS training courses will be organized for biosphere reserve managers.

44 above). It was noted by the representative of FAO and a non governmental organization that it was necessary to differentiate between zones for protecting biodiversity and those for fisheries management.

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

The work programme of these Plant Protection Officers is technically supervised by the FAO Plant Protection Service at FAO headquarters, which (jointly with the United Nations Environment Programme) also hosts the Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention.

The standard setting bodies represented are the World Organization for Animal Health, the International Plant Protection Convention and the Codex Alimentarius Commission, while observer organizations include FAO, the World Bank, the Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria, the Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, UNEP, UNIDO and UNCTAD.

11. Consultant to the UNESCO International Bio Ethics Committee in drafting declaration on the protection of the human genome (September)

Following a mission from the Agency's International Physical Protection Advisory Service, Romania's nuclear regulatory body had also started an upgrade of national nuclear physical protection systems.

Exploration, development, management and conservation of the living and non living natural resources of the economic zone

13. Improvement of latrines, waste management and environmental protection

A. Conservation and management of living marine resources

3. Conservation and management of marine mammals

Within the framework of its MAB programme, UNESCO will synthesize and publish the most recent GIS case studies on biosphere reserve management in developing countries.

Participation in work organized by IAEA to train specialists in the area of physical protection.

220. NASCO pointed out that the organization had been established to contribute to the conservation, restoration, enhancement and rational management of Atlantic salmon and that the issue of shark conservation and management was not within its area of competence.

Elaboration of an international regulatory instrument for space object protection.

B. Legislative, administrative and other measures aimed at protecting human

FAO and the Governments of the affected countries mounted a major control operation, treating more than 12 million hectares of infested land to protect crops.

Those organizations and their parties have a heavy responsibility as regards a broad range of challenges related to ecosystem based resource management and the conservation of biodiversity.

UNESCO, Intel and Conservation International will implement in 1996 a cooperative project which introduces GIS and computerized technologies in about 25 biosphere reserves in developing countries.

In each of the selected globally significant protected areas (including natural World Heritage Sites, biosphere reserves, sites designated under the Convention on Wetlands and globally important marine coral reefs), COMPACT addresses sustainable development by responding directly to funding proposals submitted by local non governmental organizations, community based organizations and indigenous groups.

189. NASCO has advised that it had no new information relating to fisheries by catch and discards.

The TRIPS Council periodically calls for information on related activities from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), FAO, the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNCTAD, UNEP and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants.

19. The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) stated that bioethics in the health sector should be guided by generally accepted principles, in particular by the principle that an adequate level of health care should be recognized as a universal and fundamental human right.

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That organization had issued specifications for biometric passports, and more than 25 countries were working to issue such passports within the next 12 or 18 months.

Member of the International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO).

However, the sport remains controversial and the management of grouse shooting moors has been linked to the persecution of raptors by some wildlife bodies.

But animal protection charity OneKind called for an end to the brutal slaughter of the birds.

The National Wildlife Federation is a non governmental non profit tax exempt conservation organization.

49. As to the protection claimed by international organizations in respect of their agents, it was based on the functional relationship between the organization and its agents. He had reservations about the extent to which the principles of diplomatic protection could be applied to the protection exercised by international organizations.

219. NAFO has indicated that it does not address shark management and conservation.

quot important opportunities exist for applying bioethics concept in developing the content of human rights relating to health, health protection, and health care.

The Biotechnology Action Council programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is focused on the applications of biotechnology in plants and marine life.

Physical protection

The role of co Executive Secretary in FAO continues to be performed by the Chief of the Plant Protection Service.

In 1998 and 1999, UNESCO will organize, within the framework of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme, training courses on remote sensing and GIS technologies for biosphere reserve managers in developing countries, and develop pilot projects on the operational use of GIS.

For 1999, the UNIDO budget does provide for building management staff and building operation costs the agency s building management costs, which are anticipated to be 21 per cent of the total operating costs, are budgeted under a single object of expenditure.

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