Sentences with phrase «multilateral agreements»

The FSC and the FSS use bilateral and multilateral agreements, such as memoranda of understanding (MOUs) or terms of reference (TORs) to share information with foreign authorities.

Haiti's bilateral and multilateral agreements can be found in the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) and other online treaty sources from jurisdictions such as the U.S., Canada, and France (Base Pacte), Haiti has joined the Organization of American States (OAS), the United Nations (UN), and other international organizations, which means that the digital law collections of those organizations will cover Haiti.

A plethora of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and multilateral agreements, European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) precedents and EU «acquis», all place Romania now firmly on a «dual» foundation of locally - crafted, as well as internationally - designed, regulation impacting businesses in all sectors and walks of life.

I believe these are areas which will ultimately need to be dealt with by the courts if sensible international standards through bilateral or multilateral agreements can not be implemented.

He outlined the legal and practical issues that arise from negotiating new trade agreements and examined the UK's position in multilateral agreements (including the Unified Patent Court Agreement).

Because the delivery of the public services touches upon consideration of other important legal and policy matters, PIAC has also developed expertise and is frequently involved in funded and unfunded work (approximately 20 % of PIAC's work is unfunded) representing its constituencies in competition law and practice, Foundation of Ontario electronic commerce, privacy, multilateral agreements, and general issues of consumer protection.

Diego has advised in matters related to sovereign debt, financial restructuring, international financial litigation, public procurement, investor - State international arbitration, commercial arbitration and bilateral and multilateral agreements negotiations.

(I know that's a reason that we have traditionally liked multilateral agreements, so we have others to balance the US — not sure that worked so well with the TPP, though.)

46 To that end, it should be noted that, on the basis of customary rules of general international law and those of multilateral agreements, the Head of State enjoys a particular status in international relations which entails, inter alia, privileges and immunities.

Nonetheless, Art. 19 of the Regulation enables Member States (but not FRONTEX) to conclude bilateral or multilateral agreements with the UK or Ireland in order to exchange with them certain limited sets of data and information relating to events and incidents occurred at the land and sea borders.

The TRIPs Agreement is an integral part of the WTO system and is one of the principal multilateral agreements on which that system is based.

A general theme of the videoconference echoed the need for organizations to work together with synergies among international satellite programs and the importance of multilateral agreements in addressing climate monitoring.

A big, binding treaty or bilateral and multilateral agreements?

Summary - Significant attention has been focused on fashioning multilateral agreements to slow CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

I mean, the president has called for an 18 percent reduction in greenhouse gas intensity; we spend over $ 4 billion a year now in climate change technology and research development; we have bilateral, multilateral agreements with most of the rest of the developed world on things like coalbed methane and hydrogen fuel cells.

Although there are numerous bilateral and multilateral agreements on which EPA might rely, the strongest evidence may be found in the procedural rights provided and the substantive commitments made through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the international efforts to address climate change which recently coalesced in Paris in December 2015.

I am a proponent of a multilateral world wherein trade works on the basis of bilateral and multilateral agreements between countries.

Negotiates cooperative bilateral and multilateral agreements covering transportation issues;

Such shared efforts are only possible, however, when OSPs — or at least bilateral or multilateral agreements — are in place.

In recent decades, quite a few astronomy projects have become international collaborations through bilateral or multilateral agreements.

The Obama administration has taken steps to reduce these emissions through bilateral and multilateral agreements with major polluters, including China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and India.

The US system presents enormous hurdles and veto points for multilateral agreements (eg the Senate Treaty ratification process, which scuppered US participation in the League of Nations for example).

But that isn't going to change - not least because of the sharp domestic contest about the legitimacy of multilateral agreements (on anything, and on climate change in particular).

Indeed, after abandoning the Trans - Pacific Partnership, playing hardball with South Korea over an existing bilateral trade agreement (Trump favors bilateral trade deals to multilateral agreements, arguing he can negotiate better deals that way) and potentially scuttling NAFTA, the US may increasingly be seen as tearing down the post-WWII global architecture.

Markets are unlikely to be shocked by a failure of NAFTA renegotiations, given President Trump's well - known antipathy toward multilateral agreements.

That could further fuel trade tensions and make it less likely that the United States will be able to reach the types of bilateral or multilateral agreements that have helped expand American exports.

Abe will seek to secure that exemption, and urge Trump to ensure the stability of the global economy through clear policies and more multilateral agreements.

A free - trade segment of his speech focused on his proposal for the «Reagan Economic Zone of Prosperity,» a vaguely - defined multilateral agreement that would promote free trade and punish the «cheaters,» particularly China.

Also noteworthy is the fact that JCPOA was not a US / Iran agreement, but a multilateral agreement.

-- If, by January 1, 2018, a multilateral agreement consistent with the negotiating objectives set forth in section 766 has not entered into force with respect to the United States, the President shall establish an international reserve allowance program for each eligible industrial sector to the extent provided under section 768 unless --

On Friday in Adelaide, an Education Council meeting of federal, state and territory education ministers will consider a multilateral agreement for schools funding for 2018 — 19, with bilateral agreements to be negotiated after the Gonski 2.0 review reports in March 2018.

It draws attention into the need to come up with a equitable and binding multilateral agreement at the negotiations.

Requires the President to: (1) report to Congress, by January 1, 2017, and biannually thereafter, on the effectiveness of the distribution of emission allowance rebates in mitigating carbon leakage in eligible industrial sectors: (2) establish, if there is no multilateral agreement on reducing GHGs in force by January 1, 2018, an international reserve allowance program for each eligible industrial sector unless the President determines and the Congress concurs that the program, or inclusion of a sector within that program, would not be in the nation's economic or environmental interests.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to support activities only in a developing country that: (1) is experiencing deforestation or forest degradation or has standing forest carbon stocks that may be at risk of deforestation or degradation; and (2) has entered a bilateral or multilateral agreement with the United States establishing the conditions of its participation.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to issue international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid GHG emissions, or increase sequestration of GHGs, in a developing country if: (1) the United States is a party to a bilateral or multilateral agreement that includes the nation hosting the offset project; and (2) the host nation is a developing country.

-- If the United States becomes a party or otherwise adheres to a multilateral agreement, including any amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which restricts the production or consumption of class II, group II substances --

-- If the United States becomes a party or otherwise adheres to a multilateral agreement, including any amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which restricts the production or consumption of class II, group II substances, the Administrator may utilize funds to meet any related contribution obligation of the United States to the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol or similar multilateral fund established under such multilateral agreement.

«(A) the United States is a party to a bilateral or multilateral agreement or arrangement that includes the country in which the project or measure achieving the relevant greenhouse gas emission reduction or avoidance, or greenhouse gas sequestration, has occurred;

An example of the third architecture, decentralized approaches and coordinated national policies, would be linkage among domestic cap - and - trade systems, driven not through a multilateral agreement but largely by bilateral arrangements.

Spurred into action by the potentially catastrophic scenario unfolding, the international community pulled off an impressive feat, the conclusion on September 16, 1987 of a landmark multilateral agreement to arrest ozone depletion — The Montreal Protocol — in the space of just under two - and - a-half years.

On November 30th, diplomats from the Department of State concluded 10 years of negotiations by finalizing a multilateral agreement to protect the central Arctic Ocean from overfishing, as sea ice in the region dwindles.

Having said that, since the climate talks have postponed a global treaty until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for multilateral agreement.

Nonetheless, even if Member States are under an obligation to abstain from taking measures in order to enhance a multilateral agreement to which the EU may become part, this would entail some very problematic legal issues.

The same conclusion applies even more obviously to an arbitral tribunal established in a multilateral agreement involving a third country.

Not exact matches

Abe also welcomed the impending visit to Japan of China's Premier Li Keqiang to (a) set up a trilateral free trade area with China and South Korea, (b) conclude the agreement on an East Asian Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, (c) join China's erstwhile shunned Belt and Road infrastructure projects, (d) promote multilateral trade and (e) fight trade protectionism.

The idea of Getting to Yes was to translate their thinking about multilateral peace agreements into lessons that might be applied to more quotidian forms of negotiation.

The first is between congressional Republicans who support free trade and the hawks advising the President to withdraw from multilateral trade agreements and instill tariffs.

Increasing intraregional Asian trade flows and the development of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will propel regional integration, but the region's ultimate success in fostering connectivity will be highly dependent on its ability to finance and build regional infrastructure and negotiate and ratify more bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs).

By withdrawing from multilateral mechanisms, such as the 2015 Paris Agreement, and taking anti-globalization measures, the U.S. is destabilizing global free trade and the world order.