We believe this is a very important article, because commercial transaction practice requires a significant level of predictability as to rules that would apply.

(b) Breadth, stability, predictability and collectability of revenue

Most people are creatures of habit they crave predictability.

After all, the good of democratic structures is their predictability.

At an operational level, the Union is determined to see improvements in the predictability of humanitarian funding and capacity and standby arrangements, inter alia through the modernization of the Central Emergency Revolving Fund.

The aim is to ensure that capacities within the sector are strengthened at the regional and global levels, and that accountability and predictability of the response at the field level are enhanced.

Such an approach should ensure predictability, transparency and accountability.

While it assumes predictable financial flows, such predictability can be spurious.

The predictability and availability of extra budgetary resources were closely linked to that balance.

That requires better targeted, timely and coordinated financial support and the predictability of assistance.

Encourage responsible behaviour on the part of all parties by enhancing predictability and transparency

Recognizes the significance of increasing and achieving stability and predictability in contributions to regular resources

Their idea of romance centers on its opposition to staid values and predictability of bourgeois life.

Action to ensure that the level of United Nations development cooperation funding is adequate should be accompanied by measures to introduce much greater predictability and long term stability to such funding than are provided under the present modalities.

In terms of legal trade the measures also help to improve predictability and effective clearance of goods.

We must therefore continue our efforts to improve the effectiveness and the predictability of humanitarian response.

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium, promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process and thereby facilitate the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

4. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

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

(c) To promote the predictability and the multi year pledging of funding for operational activities for development

It would also contribute to balance, predictability and equity in the multilateral trading system.

Notice of formal declarations and rules on when their terms apply to transactions is important for commercial predictability.

Finally, it calls for better predictability of humanitarian funding, notably by improving the current Central Emergency Revolving Fund.

Transparency and to build confidence building measures in space activities would help in the predictability of such activities.

Other measures were needed, especially measures to secure a significant increase in the predictability of United Nations funding.

Thirdly, the new architecture must enhance predictability, transparency and accountability in United Nations peacebuilding activities.

The key word to which we should return in defining our policy towards Russia is predictability.

With regard to the scale methodology, his delegation wished to underline the importance of the criteria of equity, stability and predictability.

But boosting aid to countries that are already aid dependent requires clearer delivery mechanisms and a degree of budgetary predictability.

We will continue to argue for measures regarding verification, transparency, predictability and irreversibility to form part of any ensuing agreement.

It was suggested that the predictability of UNICEF funding could be strengthened through increased commitment by donors to thematic funding.

Practical experience indicates that there is a lack of predictability in mobilizing adequate resources for peacebuilding based on voluntary contributions.

The Replenishment's four year cycle provides greater predictability than the annual or biennial budget processes of the conventions and implementing agencies.

It calls for the improved predictability of aid flows, with budget support and program based aid as the preferred means of delivering support.

(d) UN Habitat has also encouraged the development of multi year core funding arrangements by donors that increase the predictability of their support.

(b) Reliability, predictability and assuredness of the resource flows (using agreed schedules to assure availability and verifying the binding nature of donors' commitments)

To this effect, and with a view to increasing transparency, accountability and predictability for the benefit of Member States, resident coordinators should

It is important that developed countries ensure aid predictability and aid effectiveness through the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

Russia s leaders have earned a reputation for being unreliable, quixotic, and unpredictable, but markets like trustworthiness, stability, and predictability.

Multi year commitments are crucial to UNICEF for improving income predictability and stability, effective cash management and programme planning.

The EU could work towards a common arms export policy by seeking a shared understanding of the predictability and stability of third party countries.

It is expected that if other donors were to adopt this approach, it would bring more stability and predictability to funding of priority areas.

We believe that better defined guidelines for the use of force by the Council would contribute both to predictability of action and to the Council's credibility.