Competences

The response was eventually enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty, which extended the European Union s competences to foreign affairs and judicial matters, making them partly supranational.

The agency was established in February 2004 and its competences were defined as follows

The document mentioned above regulates competences of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its Entities and Brčko District.

Their combined efforts are providing the necessary expertise and competences to address the risks identified by the Board.

Meeting the standards requires that more competences and responsibilities be transferred to local authorities and that privatization be accelerated.

Additional competences could be incorporated, and the mission would thus be genuinely multifunctional at the field level as well.

The divisions and competences of the Court are defined by a decision of the Higher Council of the Judiciary.

Meeting those standards requires that more competences and responsibilities be transferred to the local authorities and that privatization be accelerated.

It seeks to invest the new permanent members in particular with competences commensurate with their new responsibilities in an expanded Council.

Acknowledging increased capability within the Provisional Institutions in the economic area, my Special Representative recently announced further transfers of economic competences.

Many European politicians would view a member state s repatriation of competences as a totally destructive precedent, and thus would oppose it resolutely.

The author used the example of how to integrate core competences using strategic architecture in view of changing market requirements and evolving technologies.

Competences required to be members of the expert review teams for the review of annual information submitted under Article 7, paragraph 1 are

The United Nations agencies had different mandates, strengths and competences the variety of approaches was a sign of the strength of the system.

UNIDO introduced a recruitment strategy that aimed to attract candidates with an advanced level of university education in the areas of UNIDO's competences.

Their main argument was that the shortcomings of EU level democratic practices required the German Bundestag to retain a substantial number of policy competences.

Ultimately, of course, whether to repatriate competences or exit from the EU are decisions for the British government and the British people to make.

Concrete activities to promote the rule of law are and should remain within the competences of the United Nations agencies working on the ground.

We are rigorously stressing the need for local ownership, and the policy of transfer of competences to the Provisional Institutions of Self Government has continued.

Great Britain and Denmark, however, insisted that these new competences be exercised on intergovernmental grounds only, not by the European Commission, and thus only through consensus.

Over the last six months, we have accelerated the transfer of competences from UNMIK to the Provisional Institutions of Self Government in areas not related to sovereignty.

As previous experience has shown, internal discussions on constitutional competences essentially political navel gazing can distract attention from the far more pressing issues of economic growth and jobs.

So perhaps achieving the Cameron government s objective to remain in a reformed EU after renegotiating the UK s membership and renationalizing certain European competences does not actually require treaty modification.

But, given the scant interest of European Union members in transferring further competences (and juicy international positions) to the EU level, the chances that this solution will prevail seem remote.

But, beneath the superficiality of the comments that have circulated to date, that revitalization effort actually proposes taking away from the Assembly the competences conferred upon it under the Charter.

For the same reason, the competence to decide upon the further allocation of competences had to remain a prerogative of the German state and could not be transferred to the EU.

The basic tasks for these centres are to participate in the preparation documents from the ministries' competences and to take due care of harmonisation of these documents with the Gender Equality Law.

The B H legislative authorities should, within their competences, take care that all issues they consider also contain the gender component, and adopt needed measures to improve women's position in some areas.

ICTs are essential tools for the integration of tourism businesses at the local level into tourism distribution networks, provided appropriate strategies, competences and cooperation mechanisms are developed and implemented by all stakeholders.

Africa's position is based on the appreciation that that important organ has to adapt itself to the current realities by reflecting the principle of equity and balance in its composition and competences.

Invite international organizations to support the diverse activities and programmes of national human rights institutions in accordance with their respective functions and competences and in a manner that reflects international concern for human rights.

Attempting to repatriate competences from the EU may play well in Britain s notoriously Euro skeptic media and parts of the Conservative Party, but I would question whether it is truly in the UK s long term interest.

We appreciate the progress made in the work of the International Criminal Court during the past year, in matters connected both to its organization and administration, as well as to the full and active exercise of its competences.

But it is no exaggeration to state that whenever Britain has perceived an opportunity to wage a war of attrition against the European supranational project, it has done so, opposing any substantial increase in the EU s competences or resources.

Significant investments have been earmarked for modernization and for ongoing and systematic re evaluation of professional teaching programmes based not only on traditional trades, but also on the acquisition of new competences essential to better integration into the labour market.

Competences required to be members of the expert review teams for the review of national communications and the supplementary information under Article 7, paragraph 2, are on those areas referred to in paragraph 135 (b) and (c) of these guidelines.

Reiterates its strong support for the document on Basic Principles for the Distribution of Competences between Tbilisi and Sukhumi and for its letter of transmittal, finalized by, and with the full support of, all members of the Group of Friends

It is characteristic for the Federation that the legislature of certain cantons allows for the transferring of educational competences to the municipality level, especially if there is a conflict regarding the enabling of certain national groups to attend classes in their own language.

In electing the members of the facilitative branch, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol shall seek to reflect competences in a balanced manner in the fields referred to in section II, paragraph 6, above.

While the Rome Statute was perceived as a powerful instrument for achieving progress in strengthening the institutions for the protection of human rights, it aroused all types of fears owing to its supranational nature and to the competences the Rome Statute grants to the Security Council.

The net result is that it seems highly probable that any attempted achievement of a new settlement, including repatriation of competences, will make it much more difficult for Britain to remain in the EU than would be the case if a straightforward in out referendum were held now.

His delegation had also sought a clarification as to whether the sharing of competences took the form of an absolute transfer of competence to the European Union in particular areas, with States retaining competence over other areas, or whether competence over certain areas was shared by the Union and its member States.

The real innovations are found in Part I and II of the proposed Constitution, in the definition of the normative and political identity of the Union, its competences, the new institutional balance including the creation of a European Minister of Foreign Affairs and, last but not least, the introduction of a Bill of Rights.

She also considered that the document entitled Basic Principles for the Distribution of Competences between Tbilisi and Sukhumi was a good starting point and said that the following meeting of the Group of Friends for Georgia, foreseen for the spring of 2005 at Geneva, would be very important as a means to move out of the current status quo.