The precautionary principle and the ecosystem approach are fundamental to the conservation and management of fishing resources.

Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.

Another delegation suggested that the precautionary approach to fisheries management be applied in the absence of conclusive scientific information.

(c) Guidance for the use of precautionary statements and precautionary pictograms

(i) Fill gaps in their mandates to include ecosystem and biodiversity considerations, the precautionary approach, based on the best available scientific information

Precautionary Absurdity

Amend the title to read as follows PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS AND PRECAUTIONARY PICTOGRAMS

A3.7 Precautionary pictograms

Economists call that precautionary saving.

Recognizing also the urgent need for action at all levels to ensure the long term sustainable use and management of fisheries resources through the wide application of the precautionary approach,

A3.5 Structure of the precautionary statements matrix

A4.3.2.2 GHS label elements, including precautionary statements

Noting the importance of the wide application of the precautionary approach to the conservation, management and exploitation of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks, in accordance with the Agreement,

States, in accordance with the precautionary approach, shall take early action and develop long term plans to ensure the sustainable use of groundwater and of the aquifers in which the groundwater is contained.

A3.6 Matrix of precautionary statements by hazard class category

The precautionary principle is not a useful substitute for scientific understanding.

The precautionary principle prescribes action, regardless of cost, to prevent all of them.

These are the facts of life that the precautionary principle tells us to ignore.

To be sure, the precautionary and proactionary principles remain relatively marginal to mainstream political discourse.

The precautionary measures instituted by the Public Prosecutor's Office were designed to protect potential victims.

In order to ensure effective protection for the marine environment from harmful effects which may arise from activities in the Area, the Authority and sponsoring States shall apply a precautionary approach, as reflected in principle 15 of the Rio Declaration,1 to such activities.

But no precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee.

Here, with input from South Korea, it is developing plans for a Precautionary Credit Line (PCL).

Think, for example, of the environment or public health, where the precautionary principle guides decision making.

He suggested that precautionary steps be considered during construction, such as low cost lightning rod technologies.

This will ensure that meaningful examination and appropriate precautionary action can be taken over the next year.

Such principles can lead to the identification of both near term precautionary actions and medium term initiatives.

At that point, the precautionary principle might suggest that we take drastic action to stop burning fossil fuels.

The precautionary principle is the better known of the two, and increasingly figures in environmental and health legislation.

Prevention Preventive management measures to be implemented on selected ecosystems in the presence of information gaps (precautionary principle)

(viii) Article 38 of the International Law Association Berlin Rules on Water Resources, 2004, Precautionary management of aquifers

18. Urges all States to apply the precautionary approach widely to the conservation, management and exploitation of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks, and calls upon States parties to the Agreement to implement fully the provisions of article 6 of the Agreement as a matter of priority

3. Urges all States to apply the precautionary approach widely to the conservation, management and exploitation of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks, and calls upon States parties to the Agreement to implement fully the provisions of article 6 of the Agreement as a matter of priority

' Precautionary approach One of the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (also known as the Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, was the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which contains 27 principles to underpin sustainable development.

Household income must rise, and, with more ample provision of social security, insurance, and services, precautionary savings should fall.

And, sensing all of this, companies are beginning to deploy the massive precautionary cash balances that they have accumulated.

They need time to build a social safety net capable of encouraging Chinese households to reduce their precautionary saving.

The acknowledgement by the Secretary General in his report contained in document A 60 63 that the concept of the precautionary approach has received wide recognition and that the increased adoption of marine protected areas is an important tool for fishery conservation and management, indeed represents a welcome and encouraging development.

Providing better social services (public health care, education, and nation wide retirement programs) would reduce the need for precautionary savings.

As a result of widespread reliance on the precautionary principle, doomsday scenarios have come to dominate discussion of climate change.

I will conclude my statement with a reference to a legal concept that needs to be strengthened the precautionary principle.

It added that the deportation order against the complainant would not be enforced until the Committee lifted its precautionary measure.

In one case, a team of United Nations peacekeepers had to be assigned to provide protection as a precautionary measure.

A4.3.2.2.1 Based on the classification, provide the appropriate labelling elements signal word(s), hazard statement(s) and precautionary statement(s).

Stronger safety net programs might reduce the need for precautionary savings in the future, but such reforms cannot be accomplished overnight.