Karen Hulme, War Torn Environment Interpreting the Legal Threshold (2004).

The second critical aspect of the legal and regulatory environment relates to property rights.

A supportive legal and regulatory environment is vital for sustained growth in developing countries.

The creation of a propitious legal environment was evidently crucial to the development of the child.

The creation of a safe and stable legal, political and corporate environment must be the absolute priority.

Aspects of the legal, financial and physical infrastructure are considered part of the general enabling business environment.

Security of resource access and the stability or predictability of the legal environment are essential to successful decentralization.

Richard Tarasofsky, Legal Protection of the Environment during International Armed Conflict, 24 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 17 (1993).

There are several key areas where the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

Richard Tarasofsky, Legal Protection of the Environment during International Armed Conflict, 24 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 17, 62 (1993).

Stressing the importance of creating an economic, political, social, cultural and legal environment that will enable people to achieve social development,

To keep the pace with the environment and meet requirements, it is necessary to make legal and organizational adjustments and to upgrade.

Nevertheless, three key areas are identified below in which the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

UNICEF has continued to work closely with the Government in building a protective environment for children, including measures for social and legal protection.

There may thus be substantial scope for reforming certain aspects of the regulatory and legal environment in developing countries without compromising broader social goals.

It lumped together as possible victims natural and legal persons, including States, and coupled damage to the environment with other kinds of transboundary damage.

A fundamental responsibility of Governments is to have public policies that promote macroeconomic stability, stimulate investment and create a reliable, predictable legal and institutional environment.

There does therefore appear to be scope in many countries for reforming certain aspects of the regulatory and legal environment without compromising broader social goals.

Specific goals include strengthening the legal and regulatory environment so that the private sector can facilitate such growth and strengthening institutions and agencies to combat corruption.

In July of 1997, the Legal Framework Law on the Environment was approved by Parliament, and this is aimed at ensuring sustainable development of the country and at giving particular emphasis on the role of women in the management of natural environment.

To ensure proper care for infected and affected victims, a supportive social and legal environment has been created to address the issues of STDs and HIV AIDS.

Michael Bothe, The Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict Legal Rules, Uncertainty, Deficiencies and Possible Developments, 34 German Yearbook of International Law 54 (1991).

For example, certain aspects of the legal and regulatory environment relating to businesses in European countries can be quite different from those in the United States or Japan.

The 1995 Convention is the key legal instrument in efforts to give United Nations and associated personnel the security and the environment they need to do their work.

Silja Vöneky, A New Shield for the Environment Peacetime Treaties as Legal Restraints of Wartime Damage, 9(1) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 20 (2000).

One important strategy for enhancing the enabling environment for gender equality would be to more directly and explicitly link the legal and policy frameworks for promoting gender equality.

But without strong compliance mechanisms, such agreements could amount to little. Finding ways to adapt formal legal processes to today s complex global environment is a key challenge for 2015.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that similar procedures had long been in place in the paper based environment and, to his knowledge, no legal provisions specifically addressed such situations.

The right of all States to share and use this unique shared environment for the benefit and in the interest of all humankind is a universally accepted legal principle.

Strategies to improve access to ICTs and the Internet include liberalizing local telecommunication markets to foster competition and creating a supportive legal and institutional environment to encourage investment in ICTs.

In other words, we need to crack down on environmental violations through legal means and severely punish the enterprises' over standard discharge behaviors, so as to protect the environment and public health.

Pending final legal and contractual clearance, another independent firm will perform a technical risk assessment of the ICT environment, on which work was expected to begin in the second quarter of 2005.

In 2005 the laws and other measures had established a protective legal environment for Omani women, setting national standards in accordance with international treaties and conventions to which Oman was a State party.

Moreover, the ease with which aspects of the legal and regulatory environment can be applied, enforced and reformed may vary between countries and regions in line with their historical experience, culture and politics.

The panellist from Panama said that the definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR) went beyond legal norms related to labour quality, environment and human rights and the implementation of standards (in particular ISO standards).

community's efforts over 60 years to build a multilateral framework of agreed rules not only to govern inter State relations but also to strengthen the legal environment in which individuals live and businesses operate .

It fits into the environment. It is the environment.

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(7)Any seriously disadvantageous change has occurred to technical, market, economic or legal environment, etc. wherein the debtor operates its business, which makes the investor of an equity instrument unable to take back its investment

But strong legal fundamentals are no less important for creating a business friendly environment. Ensuring that intellectual and other property rights are adequately protected for citizens and foreigners alike is essential, as is reducing corruption.

Lack of information on investment opportunities and the host investment environment (including unfamiliarity with the legal system and OFDI regulations in the host country) is a more serious problem for SMEs than for large companies.

Laleta Davis Mattis (Senior Legal Adviser, National Environment and Planning Agency, Jamaica) described the sources of marine debris in her country, the measures that had been taken in response and the priority areas for action.

They will further discuss capacities and technical assistance requirements to implement specific trade facilitation measures that aim at building the required institutional, commercial, legal and operational environment for an effective integration into the global economy.

But, regrettably, we continue to see signs of deterioration of the marine environment and States' failure to fulfil their obligations in adhering to and implementing the international legal regime of the law of the sea.

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