Making officially agreed standards publicly available

Monitoring the implementation of agreed standards

A summary of the agreed standards are provided below.

These proceedings should be transparent and meet internationally agreed standards.

(c) The need for national practices to meet internationally agreed minimum standards

(i) Adapting internationally agreed standards, norms and principles to regional, national and local contexts

(d) Promote common evaluation and monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards

The ad hoc consultative group agreed that International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) issued by the International Accounting Standards Board provide a widely recognized benchmark in this respect.

In June 2003, ASEAN 3 agreed to harmonize financial policies and standards, regulatory systems and tax treatments.

The Statistics Division and OECD reviewed their data processing procedures and agreed on common data processing standards.

Governments were primarily responsible for ensuring that all groups involved in armed conflicts abided by internationally agreed standards.

The industry agreed standards programme was preceded by a series of consultations with focus groups earlier in the year.

There are many Financial Intelligence Units that meet agreed international standards, but an example of best practice is given below.

In 2005, the group agreed on and published a set of norms and standards for evaluation work by United Nations agencies.

Indeed, few countries currently provide comprehensive social protection, as defined by ILO Convention 102 (the instrument establishing internationally agreed minimum social security standards).

The revised guidelines also include agreed standards for classification of international search and rescue teams according to their capabilities in collapsed structure rescue.

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

Giving credit, in the dissemination of international statistics, to the original source and using agreed quotation standards when reusing statistics originally collected by others

Speakers emphasized that any response to terrorism at the national, regional and international levels needed to be based upon common and agreed values, norms, standards and institutions.

In paragraph 309 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's reiterated recommendation to establish benchmarks for performance for contract letting and to monitor performance against those standards.

The new two party coalition government has, since taking office on 3 December 2004, undertaken a sustained effort to accelerate standards implementation on the basis of a number of priority standards goals and indicators to measure progress, agreed upon between the government and UNMIK.

Standards. Two standards are proposed.

Young people urge Member States to comply with internationally agreed labour standards, to ensure the fair pricing of commodities on the global market and to balance environmental integrity with economic growth.

In paragraph 122 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's recommendation that it consider the benefits of adopting international standards and best practices to be applied to its ICT environment.

Although they are not specifically designed to deal with terrorism, there is now a wide range of internationally agreed standards that have been developed through work on arms control and counter proliferation.

This Group meets at least once a year to review methods, standards and available data for the agreed indicators, and reviews and analyses trends for each of the quantifiable goals and targets.

The UNIDO programme on biosafety assists developing countries and countries with economies in transition to build up their institutional capacities, especially those relating to regulatory oversight and compliance with internationally agreed standards.

The auditors of the Office of Internal Oversight Services have agreed to elaborate criteria, in accordance with international accounting standards, to facilitate the review of audit reports by the secretariat of the Fund.

In paragraph 170, the United Nations Office at Geneva agreed with the Board's recommendation that it establish a fair valuation of the donated clocks in compliance with the United Nations System Accounting Standards.

Ms. Hampson also agreed with the observer for ICRC that problems in armed conflict tended to arise from a lack of compliance with international standards, not because of a lack of legal norms.

Developing standards

Setting standards

Minimal standards

In paragraph 89 of the report, UNU agreed with the Board's recommendation that it develop and implement procedures and standards to be followed in the procurement and tracking of information technology hardware, software and services.

agreed

The United Nations system wide agreed Norms and Standards for Evaluation were required under General Assembly A RES 59 250 of December 2004 and were adopted unanimously by the United Nations Evaluation Group in April 2005.

For the past three years, however, they had called upon the sponsors to consider new approaches to the issue, as too much time was spent going over old ground and repeating the debate on agreed standards.

The most illustrative examples of NTBs include plant and animal health standards, food safety standards, environmental certification and other similar export quality standards.

E. Accounting standards

Data collection standards

Data dissemination standards

Framework of Standards

and Fusing Standards

The Group also agreed to continue engaging non participants, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, the western Balkans and key transshipment countries, to promote more robust export control standards, as required under Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).

In 2004, for example, the European Union agreed to new rules on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons otherwise in need of international protection.