Medical Technical Options Committee

Foams Technical Options Committee

Halons Technical Options Committee

Chemical Technical Options Committee

Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee

Refrigeration, Air conditioning and Heat pump Technical Options Committee

Report of the Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee.

Report of the Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee.

The Committee recommends that the State party seek technical cooperation from UNICEF.

In regard to elections, the Electoral Technical Committee continued to meet regularly.

Technology and Economic Assessment Panel administrative issues In its 2005 progress report (page 244), the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel noted that it is currently operating with two temporary co chairs for the Chemicals Technical Options Committee and the Halon Technical Options Committee and one temporary co chair for the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee.

Agenda item 9, Report of the Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee .

The Ministry has designated a technical representative as a member of the Interministerial Committee.

Mr. Miguel Quintero, co chair of the Foams Technical Options Committee (FTOC), reported on the progress made by the Committee to date.

The technical secretariat has completed its report, which is being reviewed by the entire committee.

Basically a technical institution represented on the Interministerial Committee for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

The Technical Committee is working with the results from this Seminar to redesign the Plan.

Substantive servicing of meetings substantive and technical servicing of Committee plenary and working group meetings (120) substantive and technical servicing of pre session working group meetings (40) substantive and technical servicing of working group on petitions (40)

As requested by the Committee, the Executive Directorate will prepare a paper on a technical assistance strategy for consideration by the Committee in October.

The Committee has also continued to make efforts to develop new approaches to providing technical assistance.

As I mentioned earlier, the Committee has continued its discussions on how to facilitate technical assistance.

The secretariat will continue to provide the necessary technical services to the Board and the Committee.

Substantive servicing of meetings substantive and technical servicing of Committee plenary and working group meetings (180) substantive and technical servicing of pre session working group meetings (60) substantive and technical servicing of parallel working groups (30) substantive and technical servicing of working group on petitions (40).

The report by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and the Chemicals Technical Options Committee includes some excerpts and comments on the Executive Committee study.

The Ministers stressed that BONAC must not be allowed to experience any impediment and advised the BONAC Co operation Committee and Technical Committee to endeavour to work harder and avail Member Countries with effective operational and technical strategies to enhance their functions.

The Committee recommends that the State party seek technical assistance from, inter alia, UNICEF in this regard.

At the same time, the Committee recognizes the importance of facilitating the necessary technical assistance to States.

In its 2005 progress report, (pages 254 246) the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel noted that it is currently operating with two temporary co chairs for the Chemical Technical Options Committee and the Halon Technical Options Committee and one temporary co chair for MBTOC.

He also said that while the Technical Options Committee could examine the costs of the ongoing operations, the implementing agencies were better placed for that task but that the Technical Options Committee could undertake the task, in cooperation with them, if the Parties so wished.

In 2004, in order to establish specific strategies for action for different population groups, the Brazilian Government, through the Ministry of Health, created a Technical Committee on Black People of and another Technical Committee to deal the of gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals health.

Equity structures have also benefited from logistical support (computers, office facilities) and from technical assistance (National Equity Committee).

Noting with appreciation the work done by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and its Technical Options Committee,

To request the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee to prepare a form for the purposes of paragraph 1

To include the findings of data submitted in the progress report of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee.

The Committee is also still considering more than 500 technical corrections submitted to it by the Monitoring Team.

To request the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee to prepare a form for the purposes of paragraph 1

To include the findings of data submitted in the progress report of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee

(i) Technical Committee on Liberalization of Foreign Trade and Economic Globalization in the Countries of the ESCWA Region

The technical committee of the workshop, including the authors of the background reports, was formed by ITA AITES.

That the first Meeting of the Parties following the evaluation by the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee will consider any request for reconsideration of an approved nomination for critical use exemption described in paragraph 7, and the related recommendations from the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee.

The Committee also recommends that the State party consider seeking technical assistance from UNICEF and OHCHR in this regard.

Those presumptions are included in section 4.5 of the October 2005 report of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee.

Identification of possible needs for technical assistance remains one of the key objectives for Committee visits to Member States.

In that context, it will assist the Committee in considering how to strengthen and prioritize technical needs assessments and its dialogue with Member States to receive their consent to share proposed technical needs.

The Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee, Mr. Symonds, stated that a meeting of the Committee had been held on 7 April 2005 and considered a number of general issues as well as a request for technical assistance from the Government of Indonesia of 8 September 2004.