He is a prominent member of the Lebanese Forces.

The Governor appoints, with the advice and consent of the Legislature, the heads of the executive departments and has the power to approve or veto legislation and issue executive orders.

Though gradually improving, the role of the executive could be more proactive.

5 This Commission is the executive organ of the Joint FAO WHO Food Standards Programme.

No one suggested there was duplication because a parliament, courts and the executive all dealt with a particular issue.

Many of the new members will be small countries who will introduce the euro someday and will want to have a seat on the Executive Board.

In case No. 233 2003 (Ahmed Hussein Mustafa Kamil Agiza v. Sweden), the complainant was expelled to Egypt following a decision by the executive, rather than the judiciary, based on national security grounds.

For this reason alone, the competition for the limited seats on the Executive Board must be an open one.

At the opening of the workshop, welcome addresses were given by Ms. Daniela Stoycheva, Chair of the SBI, and Ms. Joke Waller Hunter, Executive Secretary.

FCCC SBI 2004 INF.9 Status report on the review of third national communications. Note by the secretariat

Power is separated between the legislature, the executive and an independent judiciary, within a federation devolving power and resources to the regional and local levels.

It is much more difficult to appoint a political puppet to the Board in a system of open competition than under the current scheme.

The Executive Secretary concurred with the Chair of the SBI that the process faced a serious problem which needed to be addressed urgently.

This is because the big countries are acting as if they own seats on the Executive Board that there is a German chair , a Spanish chair , an Italian chair , and so on.

During the war the All Palestine Government was declared in Gaza by the Arab League, and a Palestinian executive body was assembled in the city.

Presidential decree No. 1263 of 1 November 2001 had established the Committee of the Russian Federation for Financial Monitoring, a federal executive organ empowered to take measures to prevent money laundering and to coordinate the activities of other federal executive organs in that area.

Twenty four countries sit there. Big ones have their own seats, while smaller ones represent groups of countries, known as constituencies.

Giving big countries permanent seats on the Executive Board also makes it easier for their politicians to control the ECB through the appointments process.

In its continuing review of the functions and operations of the secretariat, the SBI, at its twenty first session, provided guidance to the Executive Secretary on how to address this matter.

GMO(CU) regulation 11 requires notification to and consent from HSE to work with medium high risk GM micro organisms.

It lambastes them for allegedly encroaching upon the territory of the legislative and executive branches, stating, Whereas some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive and legislature in the fight against terrorism and extremism, thereby weakening the government and the nation s resolve and diluting the efficacy of its actions to control this menace.

Prisoners held in Israeli jails were granted 20 seats in the enlarged 100 member revolutionary council. A jailed intifada leader, Marwan Barghouti, was among the highest elected new leaders to the central committee, the movement s executive body.

First, there was the controversial appointment of the Spaniard Jose Manuel Gonzales Paramo to replace his countryman Domingo Solans on the Executive Board in May 2004.

Preventing small countries as well as other big ones from competing for specific vacant seats reduces the Executive Board s potential competency.

Second, the IMF s permanent Executive Board, established in an era when travel was costly and communications difficult, and consisting of mid level government functionaries, should be abolished.

At its 1st meeting, on 6 December, the SBI considered a note by the Executive Secretary containing the provisional agenda and annotations (FCCC SBI 2004 11).

I have the honour to refer to paragraph 15 (f) of S 2004 124 dated 19 February 2004 in which the Counter Terrorism Committee has requested the Executive Director of the Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate to submit, through the Secretary General, the programme of work of the Directorate to the plenary.

They are getting away with their power grab even though it goes against the Maastricht Treaty, which excludes nationality as a criterion for membership on the Executive Board.

Constitutionally, the judiciary has a role to uphold the balance of powers between the executive, the parliament and the courts, which sometimes requires judicial review of the acts and omissions of public authorities.

The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000 as amended (GMO(CU)) require all premises handling GM biological agents to be registered with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) regulation 9.

The SBI noted that, in accordance with decision 16 CP.9, paragraph 20, the Executive Secretary provided Parties with an indication of the administrative and budgetary implications of these conclusions.

One proposal currently making the rounds in Frankfurt is to split Issing s current portfolio in two, transferring part of the chief economist s responsibilities to another Board member.

But a presidential regime runs the risk of a stalemate between the executive and the legislature, and a pure parliamentary regime, such as existed in the Third Republic, has a track of failure in France.

The COP, acting upon the recommendation of the SBI, took note of the report by the Executive Secretary on the findings of the internal review of the activities of the secretariat (FCCC SBI 2005 6), prepared in response to decision 16 CP.9.

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Latvia had a large proportion of women in local authorities and should build on this in improving the number in Parliament and in the executive branch, since a pool of educated women was available.

Furthermore, it would help the space technology community gain an understanding of the operational mechanisms, the interactions within the community and the interdependence among players at the local, provincial and national levels.

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