Table 4 provides an overview of the needs and constraints relating to vulnerability and adaptation assessments in non Annex I Parties.

Consumer demand has been the main factor responsible for lower prices in retailing.

On the demand side, the lack of precise data on drug consumption continued to hamper decision making.

However, rising demand in consumer countries was a further complicating factor.

The table also provides the quot protective quot factors, which relate to individuals with a lower probability of developing an illicit demand.

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The need for technical assistance and financial support was cited in resolving longer term constraints.

All these factors resulted in a reduction of employment demand per product unit.

The second element is the emphasis on the concept of economic and social development as a crucial factor in ensuring conventional security and collective handling of development requirements.

The steps required in these regards depend on a number of variable factors.

Various supply and demand factors, along with policies, were identified as important explanations to why, and in what locations, the globalization of R D takes place.

Another constraint was the high demand for community contributions, at 30 40 per cent of total cost.

Many government support institutions have not yet incorporated demand driven elements in their programmes.

Market structure and regulatory frameworks On the demand side, level of development and income, cultural and historical factors, consumer tastes and geographic and demographic factors, as well as the overall regulatory environment, influence the structure and evolution of the distribution services market.

Parties have identified their needs, common barriers and constraints to the integration of climate change policies and activities into national sustainable development plans and actions.

He pointed out that conducting a TNA for technologies for adaptation is more complex and challenging than for mitigation technologies and highlighted several key aspects in the identification of technology needs for adaptation.

One possibility is to use the dates in Opinion No. 11 of 16 July 1993 of the Arbitration Commission of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia.

It might therefore be useful to specify criteria or guidelines for determining the elements to be taken into account in that regard.

The approach to professional development does not contain elements of discrimination, but it is fragmented, uniform, without analysis of needs and interests of the teachers schools.

There are, however, many factors that must be taken into account.

11. Asian demand has also been adversely affected by financial factors, especially the lack of ready trade credit because of the fragility of the regions banking systems.

The presence of these qualities depends on many factors that cannot be expected to occur spontaneously it calls for planned human resource development (HRD). A

The decision of the arbiters on that occasion similarly requires no substantiation and is the determining factor in assessing the woman's claim and the extent of the maltreatment.

(d) There is a need to improve the assessment methodologies taking into account not only the symptoms of desertification but also the driving forces climatic, institutional and socio economic.

These descriptions may underestimate other physically demanding elements found in women s work, thereby discriminating against women in terms of pay.

22. In addition, the following factors may need to be weighed

IV. ELEMENTS TO BE CONSIDERED IN SELECTING THE THEME

Noted in the reports is the need to take account of external factors, such as changing patterns of demand and the impact of substitutes, when assessing future needs.

Those are essential elements of the renewal we seek.

Colonel Shiba will give the report.

On the other hand, those aspects of the tender which imply an appreciation of non quantifiable elements should not be the object of electronic auctions.

79. The lower requirements for environmental clean up are attributable to two facts.

General and Special Programmes needs for 1998 thus amounted to 995.9 million.

Some of these can only be overcome in the long term.

Thus, future production is critical in determining prices in a market becoming more supply than demand driven.

15. With regard to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, the most critical needs of the developing countries were based on certain common grounds.

And, when antibiotics are called for, we need to finish the prescribed course. As we try to prevent resistance to existing drugs, we will also need to examine the impact of antibiotics in agriculture.

A drawback of such strategies, however, might be that demand characteristics of domestic markets which might accept lower quality products could weaken the economic incentive to upgrade into higher quality product niches.

Numerous factors were involved in that regard.

The elements contributing to the decrease in the required rate of contribution were as follows Elements

62. Pakistan believed that a strong commitment by the international community to reduction of demand would be a key factor in dealing with the problem.

On the demand side, a welcome boost can be expected from the results of current research vaunting the health benefits from black tea consumption. 1997 was a good year for tea growers, as prices rose in response to buoyant demand from the Russian Federation.

Reducing risk factors, as well as increasing preventive factors, is an attractive starting point for the development of preventive interventions.

Second, the world economy is vastly larger than in the past, so that demand for key commodities and energy inputs is also vastly larger.

The study concludes that the main factors contributing to this increase in demand will be urbanization and motorization which are linked urban phenomena.