Sentences with phrase «under the convention for»

The Antarctic Treaty has provided a model for conservation of the terrestrial environment, but biologists agree that the marine environment has suffered under Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).

Paragraph 2: Parties are encouraged to take action to implement and support, including through results - based payments, the existing framework as set out in related guidance and decisions already agreed under the Convention for: policy approaches and positive incentives for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries; and alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests, while reaffirming the importance of incentivizing, as appropriate, non-carbon benefits associated with such approaches.

Japan's statute implementing the Convention into Japanese law states that an application may be filed under the Convention for visitation only (a) with respect to a child who is located in Japan, (b) who was, immediately before the visitation became unable to be made, a habitual resident of another Hague country, (c) by a person who is entitled to such visitation under the laws of said state other than Japan.

It isn't that you don't have a remedy under the Convention for a «custody» issue as that is defined.

An exemption from prohibitions on taking whales is provided under the Convention for Indigenous peoples, who can take whales for traditional subsistence purposes.

Not exact matches

A: In addition to other considerations under novelty and clarity, the two most common hurdles for bioinformatics - based inventions before the EPO are the exclusion from patentability, governed in the European Patent Convention under Article 52, and inventive step, governed under Article 56.

It was an emblem of the central place of Jesus when, under the terms of the Geneva Convention of 1864 for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick of Armies in the Field, the international organization created to carry out that moral imperative took the name «Red Cross Society»; its symbol, based on a reversal of the colors of the Swiss flag, is a red cross on a white background.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

The event is at the Melbourne Convention Centre and has an entry fee of $ 15 (adults) per day if pre-purchased and is free for children 17 and under.

Edward Avalos, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs at the United States Department of Agriculture, has been announced as the closing keynote speaker at the Farm to Table International Symposium (F2Ti), August 2 — 4, 2014 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

This project, plus a feasibility study now under way for a proposed indoor sports arena in Itasca, are part of the convention bureau's grand plan to use sports to boost tourism and fill hotel rooms in the area.

But since news of Assemblyman Vito Lopez's sexual harassment scandal broke on Aug. 24 — the Friday before the Republicans gathered for their convention in Tampa — Silver has been increasingly under fire.

Under the Vienna Convention, for example, a «fundamental change of circumstances» is grounds for withdrawing from an international agreement, provided «the existence of those circumstances constituted an essential basis of the consent of the parties to be bound by the treaty».

Because the Vienna Convention provides its own system of remedies by way of declaration of persona non grata and breach of diplomatic relations, even manifest abuse can not be relied on to justify forcible entry as a form of reprisals for breach of the obligation under Article 41 of the Convention to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State.»

If any delegate bound by these rules, state party rule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognized.

... I have asked the Cabinet Secretary to lead work to consolidate the existing unwritten, piecemeal conventions that government much of the way central government operates under our existing constitution into a single written document... And if we are to decide to have a written constitution, the time for its completion should be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in Runnymede in 1215.

The government's policy on leaving the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) was as clear as mud today, after reports emerged it was considering leaving only for Theresa May to under play them.

You must be publicly protected and resourced in such a way that it is manifest to you and to all that under local (not unnecessarily restrictive) conventions: you can speak your mind, associate with your fellows, enjoy communal resources, locate where you will, move occupation and make use of what is yours, without reason for fearing anyone or deferring to anyone.

The Geneva Convention allows them to be «detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action; subject of course to international treaties on justice and human rights such as everyone's right to a fair trial.»

During the Democratic presidential primary, Clinton came under fire from her opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, for her past support of trade deals - including the North America Free Trade Agreement under her husband's administration — which have been blamed for job losses in key swing states like Ohio, (which, of course, is where the Republicans are holding their national convention this week).

The Scotland Act 2016 and the Wales Act 2017 embodied the Sewel Convention in statute law for the first time, which was seen as a symbolic under - pinning for the permanence of the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales.

Under the state constitution, voters get a chance every 20 years to call for a constitutional convention.

Under Article 56 of the Efta convention, we would need to be accepted by the four existing countries for membership.

The «Real» Convention battle for governor is over and now we will see if The Knight In Shinning Money Carl Paladino under the Direction of master consultant Roger «Socks» Stone

@alephzero Under the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act, there's now a prescribed form for a motion of no confidence, which doesn't mention supply, so there's now the potential for an odd grey area where the government doesn't have any finances, but the old convention that this means they're booted out doesn't apply (probably).

The delegates awarded to Trump by New York GOP committee members would be bound under state party rules to vote for him only through the first ballot at the convention.

Under state law, these delegates were required to vote on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention for the winner of the statewide primary.

The contingency plan of Joe Ganim to get onto the primary ballot for governor is under way — should he be denied at the Democratic nominating convention.

The asylum appeal was made under the 1951 Refugee Convention, which aims to protect people from persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.

The Rockland County Conservative party is coming under fire for holding its convention on Yom Kippur.

The convention has provided a new forum for the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has made camp at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in Philadelphia under the name Occupy Philly.

And in March, at a press conference with President Hollande, David Cameron said that if unaccompanied minors in Calais had direct family in Britain and applied for asylum in France, under the Dublin Convention they could use the existing processes allowing them to join their family in Britain.

Grassroots proposals, under an obscure convention (known as the «1968 Ruling») have been delayed for a year but the executive can agree rule changes one week and have them voted on by conference the following week!

If Ritz were to lose the primary, our sources tell us, she will just run again for Superintendent of Public Instruction since it is a nominating convention and she would not be prohibited from running again for another office under Indiana's «sore loser» law which bans candidates from running for an office in the general election which they lost in the primary.

Mr Cameron almost seems to be suggesting that the secrecy shrouding the dinner is part of his right to respect for his private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention.

The Democratic National Convention is under way today and a number of area politicians are in Philadelphia for the four - day event.

Under the party's rules, anyone who receives more than 50 percent of the weighted vote at the May convention automatically receives the Republican designation for governor.

At this «Under the Oaks Convention'the first statewide candidates were selected for what would become the Republican Party.

«The national convention of the PDP, in the exercise of its powers under section 12.88 of the PDP constitution, dissolved the National Working Committee and appointed some of its members as caretakers Committee for the next ninety (90) days, to enable it pursue true reconciliation of its disputant members towards peaceful, amicable and political settlement of the disputes leading to the cases in court.

In November, countries will meet for the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties for negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discussions.

Furthermore, as more populations are declared protected, and more and more species are listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the demand for forensic testing in wildlife cases is sure to increase.

Empa's extensive research on HBCD, formerly used as a flame retardant for plastics, electronics and textiles, and especially for insulation panels in buildings, contributed to the new regulation of HBCD under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which runs the station, claims that the work at Torry is purely academic and so under the European Patent Convention is exempt from such claims.

Under existing conventions, the operator of a nuclear site is exclusively liable for third - party nuclear damage.

In one bird shop in Hong Kong, the investigators were offered Moluccan cockatoos and Goffin's cockatoos — two species for which all trade is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species — provided they ordered at least a hundred birds.

It is an internationally important site for bird life, listed under the Ramsar Convention, and home to endangered species such as the Dalmatian pelican.

The production and use of these chemicals is now largely banned by national laws and under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants — because of worries over their potential for causing cancer and other health problems.

People have been looking at this group of animals for protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, but there has been no way to know which of the groups need protection because the filters are cut out and the rest of the animal is discarded, she said.

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The Red Cross — which pushed under Protocol IV of the Geneva Convention for the existing ban on lasers intentionally designed to blind people — remains sceptical, and in November it called for a discussion on how to minimise the risk of permanent blinding by laser dazzlers.