the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

This is therefore complementary to the IAPWG Common Procurement Training initiative, which focuses on increased skills and training for United Nations staff.

(iii) Including the issue of Diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

(iii) Including the issue of diversity of sources of procurement as an agenda item at the annual meetings of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group

Strengthening these capacities for implementation of the Stockholm Convention can have the co benefit of strengthening the capacity of countries to implement the Rotterdam Convention (and vice versa).

The sScience and ttechnology programme provides substantive support to the Committee on Science and Technology (Committee on Science and Technology (CST)) and its Group of Experts (GoE).

IAPWG should adopt, approve and implement the concept of lead agency and promote a division of labour among the organizations, aimed at further rationalization of procurement practices by its members.

IAPSO, currently the most advanced entity in e procurement, reports that all its procurement functions are carried out using electronic methods and all purchase orders are issued in its UNWebBuy e commerce application.

Procurement benchmarking is tentatively on the agenda of the 30th meeting of the IAPWG in Moscow in May 2005.

On the sharing of procurement performance benchmarks and best practices (recommendation 1) and the concept of lead procurement agency (recommendation 2), it should be noted that since 2004, the HLCM has incorporated the work of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG) into the HLCM agenda.

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In the context of the Joint Work Programme (JWP) between the secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UNCCD, priorities for the JWP for 2005 have been established, and the Programme is advancing.

Encourages the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group to continue its efforts to produce comprehensive and generally applicable statistics encompassing the procurement activities of all United Nations entities

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In addition, the CEB members believe that the current modality of consortium buying and or the lead agency approach is capable of achieving the same results and benefits as those of a central procurement facility.

The management and staff of the Procurement and Logistics Division continue to focus on the reduction of procurement processing times for all functions, especially the processing times between the issuance of the purchase requisition and purchase order, the approval of purchase orders and the distribution of all documents to the suppliers.

Procurement and contract management

(a) Procurement and Logistics Services

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Procurement policy and procedures manuals

Distribution of procurement activities

It was not exactly clear which requisition for purchase date begins the actual procurement process.

Buy Back or Pay Forward?

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a) the transport of firearms and ammunition to a Member State of the European Union, to the territory or through the territory thereof transport of firearms and ammunition by business entities having place of business or seat outside of the Slovak Republic notification is provided during the transport at the latest,

Once the common procurement management system has been developed, the exchange of data will be possible on a real time basis via the Internet, giving further efficiencies and better oversight of the Secretariat's global procurement activities.

Procurement practices within the United Nations system

Joint CBD UNCCD work programme Pursuant to the decisions by the COPs to the UNCCD and to the CBD, a joint work programme between the two conventions was developed.

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A Report of the Secretary General on procurement reform

They have expanded overseas through acquisitions.

The income and expenditures relating to procurement services amounted to

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the nature of the products or services being procured

Decides to consider the matter of a joint head of the secretariats of the Stockholm and Rotterdam conventions further at its third meeting in the light of the study and the reports referred to in decision RC 2 6

Moreover, IAPSO could additionally be enabled to sharpen its expertise in e procurement and make it available at low cost to other members of IAPWG, at least in order to preclude recourse to expensive external consultants.

Some field offices did not comply with chapter 8 of the Manual with regard to procurement plans, rosters of vendors and purchase order logs (Angola, Eritrea and Ethiopia).