The group targeted June 2005 as a benchmark date in their preparations for COP 7.

(a) Establishing appropriate benchmark indices, proportions and performance targets

Benchmark for each disk

In both cases, however, perfect insurance could nonetheless serve as a valid benchmark to guide the choice of policies to implement.

Encouragingly, there is a growing acceptance among non participants of Australian Group measures as an international benchmark for effective export control.

As noted above, such queries are currently addressed in a reactive manner only and are not addressed within the set benchmark.

Several countries found it practical to use disaster resistant hospitals as an example of a benchmark for reducing overall disaster risk.

This offshoring initiative might also serve as a pilot study and useful benchmark for further similar arrangements for a wide range of administrative activities.

iii. Benchmark for Women in senior positions'

The summit has endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the benchmark of progress towards that objective.

As from 2004, independent companies will also be able to assess their own results against this benchmark.

Multi polarity promises capital mobility and exchange rate flexibility between the poles, as well as the development of a liquid market for benchmark bonds in each region.

Source K. Zandvliet, Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, The Hague, 2003.

Just as Spain (not Germany) remains the benchmark in European football, so Europe speaks broken English at best.

The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

Subtract 2.5 for inflation, and you get a benchmark expected real return of 1.26 .

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while.

Both involve announcing benchmark levels. In both cases, central banks attempt to affect macroeconomic outcomes directly as well as by influencing market participants expectations.

The benchmark for this study is admittedly far from ideal.

(i) To benchmark OIOS against similar audit and oversight bodies

Part of the Mixed' project is developing an international benchmark.

When Chinese seek a benchmark model for social protection, they go on study trips to Scandinavia.

In such systems, the government directly controls the benchmark interest rates.

What a real revolution it would be if the Western democracies did indeed begin to frame their foreign policies with human rights and democratic processes as their benchmark.

There were no standard price lists of treatment, drugs and medicines and therefore information was not available as a benchmark to ensure that only reasonable amounts were reimbursed.

The benchmark 1995 Murayama apology remains a personal one, because the Japanese Diet, then and since, would not agree to anything as strong a deep feeling of remorse was as much as they could muster, and even then 241 members abstained.

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

But policymakers continued to benchmark recovery prospects to pre crisis growth performance.

This should serve as an environmental benchmark for future agreements including with the US, despite some American constituencies expectations that EU standards could be relaxed in a bilateral trade deal.

INSTRAW could, for example, create benchmark statistics and criteria to measure the actual implementation of gender mainstreaming in areas such as violence against women.

K. Zandvliet c.s., Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, November 2002 (House of Representatives Documents, SZW 03 234).

I have been tracking these so called benchmark revisions for about 40 years.

Those 13 steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the disarmament process.

In paragraph 38 of the report, the Pension Fund agreed with the Board's recommendation that it use the best practices of other funds as a benchmark in accounting for pension contributions.

We remain open to considering all proposals and will evaluate them against that benchmark.

Since China s current benchmark interest rate is higher than the comparable rate in the United States, individuals and institutions have an incentive to keep renminbi as assets and dollars as debt.

Party A had reported data for CFC consumption in 2003 meeting its benchmark, and had established the licensing and quota system.

In the absence of a benchmark for comparative assessment, we do not really know whether 192 protectionist measures is a big or small number.

(f) The strategy to continuously benchmark the performance of OIOS against other such service providers.

WP Activity 8 Evaluate the state of the art of common benchmark and indicator systems

The next step is the Women in senior positions' benchmark, which is currently being developed.

Staffing has proceeded slowly, but there is scope for this benchmark soon to be met.

The commemoration in 2003 of the International Year of Fresh Water was a benchmark in the establishment of an international water agenda.

Progress by FARDC in assuming effective responsibility for security nationwide would also constitute a key benchmark guiding the exit strategy for MONUC.

The government (the visible hand) sets the benchmark price for risk free financial assets through monetary policy and control over fiscal deficits, while the market (the invisible hand) sets the risk premia of risky assets above the benchmark rate.