But strong legal fundamentals are no less important for creating a business friendly environment.

The second critical aspect of the legal and regulatory environment relates to property rights.

A supportive legal and regulatory environment is vital for sustained growth in developing countries.

The creation of a propitious legal environment was evidently crucial to the development of the child.

The creation of a safe and stable legal, political and corporate environment must be the absolute priority.

Security of resource access and the stability or predictability of the legal environment are essential to successful decentralization.

There are several key areas where the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

Roberts, Environmental Issues in International Armed Conflict, in R. J. Grunawalt et al., Protection of the Environment during Armed Conflict 222 (1996) Karen Hulme, War Torn Environment Interpreting the Legal Threshold (2004).

Stressing the importance of creating an economic, political, social, cultural and legal environment that will enable people to achieve social development,

To keep the pace with the environment and meet requirements, it is necessary to make legal and organizational adjustments and to upgrade.

Nevertheless, three key areas are identified below in which the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

UNICEF has continued to work closely with the Government in building a protective environment for children, including measures for social and legal protection.

(c) To be fully versed in the legal environment by which the media is regulated at both the international and the national levels.

There may thus be substantial scope for reforming certain aspects of the regulatory and legal environment in developing countries without compromising broader social goals.

It lumped together as possible victims natural and legal persons, including States, and coupled damage to the environment with other kinds of transboundary damage.

A fundamental responsibility of Governments is to have public policies that promote macroeconomic stability, stimulate investment and create a reliable, predictable legal and institutional environment.

There does therefore appear to be scope in many countries for reforming certain aspects of the regulatory and legal environment without compromising broader social goals.

Such thinking goes back at least as far as Max Weber s argument that an effective business environment requires a legal structure as predictable as a clock.

In July of 1997, the Legal Framework Law on the Environment was approved by Parliament, and this is aimed at ensuring sustainable development of the country and at giving particular emphasis on the role of women in the management of natural environment.

To ensure proper care for infected and affected victims, a supportive social and legal environment has been created to address the issues of STDs and HIV AIDS.

In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment, the natural environment or the built environment.

For example, certain aspects of the legal and regulatory environment relating to businesses in European countries can be quite different from those in the United States or Japan.

The 1995 Convention is the key legal instrument in efforts to give United Nations and associated personnel the security and the environment they need to do their work.

One important strategy for enhancing the enabling environment for gender equality would be to more directly and explicitly link the legal and policy frameworks for promoting gender equality.

Its effectiveness can only be relative and depends on the resources available to those involved and the conditions set by the political, legal, cultural, economic and religious environment.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that similar procedures had long been in place in the paper based environment and, to his knowledge, no legal provisions specifically addressed such situations.

The right of all States to share and use this unique shared environment for the benefit and in the interest of all humankind is a universally accepted legal principle.

Strategies to improve access to ICTs and the Internet include liberalizing local telecommunication markets to foster competition and creating a supportive legal and institutional environment to encourage investment in ICTs.

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This can only be done by introducing legal mechanisms to reward those who protect the environment, while making polluters pay, and by helping to unify the environmental watchdogs scattered across different sectors.

Pending final legal and contractual clearance, another independent firm will perform a technical risk assessment of the ICT environment, on which work was expected to begin in the second quarter of 2005.

In the area of growth, the programme seeks to support the creation of an environment that is conducive to economic growth benefiting the poor. Specific goals include strengthening the legal and regulatory environment so that the private sector can facilitate such growth and strengthening institutions and agencies to combat corruption.

The environment outlook reports, Atlantic and Indian Oceans Environment Outlook, Caribbean Environment Outlook and Pacific Environment Outlook, are available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish as appropriate.

The UNIX98 standard environment is the Common Desktop Environment (CDE).

In 2005 the laws and other measures had established a protective legal environment for Omani women, setting national standards in accordance with international treaties and conventions to which Oman was a State party.

Moreover, the ease with which aspects of the legal and regulatory environment can be applied, enforced and reformed may vary between countries and regions in line with their historical experience, culture and politics.

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