Hence, they recommend targeting a minimum level of basic capabilities that will impact quality of life, such as institutional improvements like health and education.

Improve level and ability of living quality.

(a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an internationally accepted level

A minimum level of funding was agreed on for training editorial staff during 2005.

Water quality is another key issue at the household level.

Focusing on sanitation, water quality and hygiene at the household level

Minority communities' employment in the public sector is 55 per cent of the stipulated minimum level.

In communities with survival rates 20 , a minimum of two of the rescuers are trained to the advanced level.

Cash balances were maintained at a minimum level to provide the organisation with maximum returns on investment (Figure 2).

The ILO Convention (No. 138) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973, promotes free and compulsory education of good quality up to the minimum age for entering into employment as a key element in the prevention of child labour.

A high quality biogas plant needs minimum maintenance costs and can produce gas for at least 15 20 years without major problems and re investments.

Quality, costs, and delivery times in auto manufacturing, for example, are reaching the European level.

Ultimately, this system has allowed Chile to significantly increase the number of household telephones with a minimum level of subsidies.

Loan or bond covenants often require borrowers to agree to maintain a minimum level of equity capital or cash on hand.

Client management structures will be rationalized and kept at the minimum level necessary to ensure business development and close client relations.

The level and quality of participation by major group representatives have improved since the Forum was established.

At a minimum, that would mean reducing the deficit to a level that stops the rise in the debt to GDP ratio.

(g) Recommend a core set of tables as minimum requirements at the national and international level to satisfy the major users' needs.

The High level Group on Education for All, meeting in Brasilia in November 2004, focused on quality education.

When combined with adequate enforcement of the quota legislation, closed lists guarantee a minimum level of women s representation across all parties and districts.

Minimum ages Countries are free to specify a minimum age for labour, with a minimum of 15 years.

These countries success has depended on sustained high level political commitment to providing high quality maternal and newborn care.

The opportunity lies in their high level of quality, the consensus they embody and the political commitment they manifest.

The Committee welcomes the State party's efforts to improve Brazil's health level, in particular the establishment of the Minimum Healthcare Allocation (PAB) in 1998.

Minimum increment

Minimum value

Minimum Punishments

Whereas China exports manufactured products with an increasing level of technological inputs, Latin America continues to export basic goods with a minimum of added value.

For example, people who suffer the most adversity can fall back on an explicit social safety net a minimum level of unemployment insurance, for example.

The Human Rights Committee observed that certain minimum standards regarding the conditions of detention must be observed regardless of a State party's level of development.

But this distinction misses the larger point the quality of policy matters much more than the level of economic development.

The tourism business, however, expects a certain level of quality and reliability in the services available in the protected areas.

Voyages undertaken before the minimum will be overtaken by those who leave at the minimum, whereas those who leave after the minimum will never overtake those who left at the minimum.

Advancing an innovation driven development strategy and promoting emerging industries would improve the quality and level of foreign support and cooperation.

Traffic can be prioritised with Classes of Service, coupled with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that underpin quality of service performance guarantees.

One particular challenge with regard to the quality of action at the community level was ensuring that it was evidence based.

In large countries, there is room for research and development, training and quality control activities at the intermediate (e.g. provincial) level.

One particular challenge with regard to the quality of action at the community level was ensuring that it was evidence based.

Countries should establish surface and groundwater quality monitoring networks at the national level in order to protect their scarce water resources

The advancement of women in NAM countries depends very much on their educational level and the quality of education they receive.

At the same time, there have been efforts to raise the level of earned income by setting minimum wage legislation. But the minimum wage has never reached the floor set for a living income and has not, therefore, appreciably reduced the bill for wage subsidies.

Forest is a minimum area of land of 0.05 1.0 hectares with tree crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10 30 per cent with trees with the potential to reach a minimum height of 2 5 metres at maturity in situ.

Minimum Marital Age

The new strategy puts a greater focus on hygiene, water quality, emergency programming, interventions at the household level, capacity building at the intermediate level, the scaling up of national programmes and sustainability.

Library staff skills, and consequently quality of service, varied widely between locations, depending on the level of professional and technical training available.