4. Commends the Board of Auditors for the superior quality and the streamlined format of its reports

Georgia is also known for the high quality of its mineral waters for example Borjomi.

It is not a standard for software, it is equally applicable to manual processes.

All duty stations have now adopted and are reporting against a country specific standard.

The Council of Members shall determine quality criteria standards applicable to the international trade of the Members, in accordance with article 25, paragraph 3.

The Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons has established a fundamental norm by emphasizing verification and confidence building.

Another element of the move towards consolidation in promoting quality in basic education is the increased focus on life skills education.

Bosnia and Herzegovina tries to make the gender equality principle a significant criterion in all activities it carries out.

(iii) Resolve to adopt the Model Additional Protocol as the norm for verifying compliance with the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The IAEA safeguards system should be strengthened and the additional protocol should be adopted as the new non proliferation standard.

Private sector education subject to the buying decisions of parents, who will closely scrutinize their investment is the best long term guarantor of quality.

The systematic approach to quality started in industrial manufacturing during the 1930s, mostly in the U.S., when some attention was given to the cost of scrap and rework.

It is a scientific theory of the quantitative determination of quality developed in the former USSR by G.G.Azgaldov and currently used in development of Russian standards (GOST), etc.

In this context, we consider the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC 153) combined with the Additional Protocol (INFCIRC 540), to be the verification standard under the Treaty.

First, the Special Court is the first international tribunal to use greatest responsibility as its standard for prosecuting alleged perpetrators.

It should be a benchmark in the ongoing work on violence against women and pave the way forward.

Processes that operate with six sigma quality over the short term are assumed to produce long term defect levels below 3.4 defects per million opportunities (DPMO).

So those governments whose credit is still unshaken and whose assets are still the benchmarks of quality for the world economy should be creating a lot more of them.

In the United States of America, for example, public organizations are regularly assessed according to the Baldridge National Quality Program, a Total Quality Management (TQM) set of organizational criteria.

We endorse the Secretary General's appeal to embrace the principle of the responsibility to protect as a norm for our collective action in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

In this connection, the test of derogability is not appropriate, because derogability concerns the operation of the provisions and is not related to the issue of validity or termination.

These are the people who are doing the bulk of the site, and they are, in a sense, semi professionals at what they're doing, that the standards we set for ourselves are equal to or higher than professional standards of quality.

These figures were not used as a criterion to define the priorities of UNHCR for accession campaigning and to determine whether an accession effort was appropriate.

A smaller number authorise the executive to name parties whose assets are to be frozen, with a UN listing frequently a criterion for national designation.

These items together could become the benchmark for multilateral transparency reporting and surveillance and thus assist the international progress toward better insolvency practice.

While her main and foremasts are accepted to be a standard , respectively, an annotation on one surviving ship plan records the mizzen as 16 yards 29 inches ( m).

The definition of who is or is not a national not only defines the community to which national sovereignty is entrusted, but also establishes a criterion which becomes a source of inequality between nationals and non nationals, in other words, aliens.

The African Union had made the Goals the benchmark for measuring development in Africa in its Strategic Framework Plan for Development, which underscored the need for sound macroeconomic policies and a regional approach.

The draft Principles benchmark the effectiveness of insolvency and creditor rights systems and offer guidance to policymakers on the policy choices required to establish or strengthen a functional system for healthy debtor creditor relations.

Given their global reputation as guarantors of quality, Europe s high environmental standards are crucial to its future competitiveness, and should therefore be actively promoted, particularly in trade agreements.

However, limited capacity should not be a criterion for retaining central control over forest resources. Capacity building should be simultaneously accompanied with power transfer. Policies to promote an enabling environment for decentralization are essential in this context.

Apart from these and other major brands, the Czech Republic also boasts a growing number of top quality small breweries and mini breweries seeking to continue the age old tradition of quality and taste, whose output matches the best in the world Štiřín, Chýně, Oslavany, Kácov.

Decentralization, or local government reform, is not a standard as such, but it is an important process. Decentralization will benefit the population as a whole. It will bring services closer to the citizens, and it will also help meet minority concerns.

Wade argues that ISO 9000 is effective as a guideline, but that promoting it as a standard helps to mislead companies into thinking that certification means better quality, ... the need for an organization to set its own quality standards .

At its second session, the Forum, recalling the above mentioned resolution of the Council, decided, by its resolution 2 3,2 that the review of the international arrangement on forests would be carried out in the context of the six principal functions of the arrangement, and identified 21 specific criteria for the assessment of its effectiveness.

The removal of the United Kingdom's power to legislate in the Territories would be a precursor for such equality, which is in itself a key criterion for removal of a Territory from the United Nations list of Non Self Governing Territories.

The Conference believes that implementation of the Additional Protocol is a key standard by which to measure a party's commitment to its nonproliferation obligations under the NPT, and that the Protocol should become an essential new standard in the field of nuclear supply by the end of 2005.

The key point is that the principle of intention provides the general criterion, whether or not bilateral or multilateral treaties are involved, or the relations between parties to an armed conflict exclusively, or the relations between parties to the conflict and third States.

The Commission also expressed its appreciation for the coordination with the World Bank, which was preparing principles and guidelines for effective insolvency and creditor rights systems, and in particular for the agreement that the World Bank text would form with the draft legislative guide on secured transactions a single international standard.

At its preliminary meeting, the Committee agreed on its overall objectives, namely (a) to mainstream environmental economic accounting and related statistics (b) to elevate the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) to an international statistical standard 1 and (c) to advance the implementation of SEEA at the global level.

While citizenship as such should not be a distinguishing criterion which excludes some persons or groups from enjoying minority rights under the Declaration, other factors can be relevant in distinguishing between the rights that can be demanded by different minorities.

He called on the States parties to react in order to defend the Treaty, which was the foundation for international security, by making the additional protocol a mandatory verification standard at the 2005 Review Conference, with a view to creating a reinforced system to ensure that the obligations arising out of the Treaty were truly respected.

Moreover, it is not a universal standard in extradition treaties, many of which adopt a quot no evidence quot approach whereby the requesting State is only required to provide a statment of the acts or omissions which are alleged against the person sought to the requesting State.