Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements Sample Clauses

Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements. 1. The Parties recognise the value of international environmental governance and agreements as a response of the international community to global or regional environmental problems and stress the need to enhance the mutual supportiveness between trade and environment. In this context, the Parties shall dialogue and cooperate as appropriate with respect to trade-related environmental issues of mutual interest. 2. The Parties reaffirm their commitment to effectively implement in their laws and practices the following multilateral environmental agreements: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer adopted on 16 September of 1987, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal adopted on 22 March 1989, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted on 22 May 2001, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora signed on 3 March 1973 (hereinafter referred to as "CITES"), the CBD, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the CBD adopted on 29 January 2000, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted on 11 December 1997 (hereinafter referred to as "Kyoto Protocol") and the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade adopted on 10 September 1998 [80]. 3. The Trade Committee may recommend the extension of the application of paragraph 2 to other multilateral environmental agreements following a proposal by the Sub-committee on Trade and Sustainable Development.
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Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements. The Parties recognise the value of international environmental governance and agreements as a response of the international community to global or regional environmental problems and stress the need to enhance the mutual supportiveness between trade and environment. In this context, they will dialogue and cooperate as appropriate with respect to trade related environmental issues of mutual interest.
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Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements. 1. The Parties recognise the value of international environmental governance and agreements as a response of the international community to global or regional environmental problems and they stress the need to enhance the mutual supportiveness between trade and environment policies, rules and measures. In this context, they will consult and cooperate as appropriate with respect to negotiations on trade-related environmental issues of mutual interest. 2. The Parties shall effectively implement in their respective laws, regulations or other measures and practices in their territories, the multilateral environmental agreements to which they are party.0 3. The Parties reaffirm their commitment to reaching the ultimate objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred to as "UNFCCC"), and of its Kyoto Protocol in a manner consistent with the principles and provisions of the UNFCCC. They commit to work together to strengthen the multilateral, rules‑based regime under the UNFCCC building on the UNFCCC's agreed decisions, and to support efforts to develop a post‑2020 international climate change agreement under the UNFCCC applicable to all parties. 4. Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent either Party from adopting or maintaining measures to implement the multilateral environmental agreements to which they are party, provided that such measures are not applied in a manner that would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between the Parties or a disguised restriction on trade.
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Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements. 1. The Parties recognise that international environmental governance and agreements are important elements to address global or regional environmental problems and stress the need to enhance the mutual supportiveness between trade and environment. The Parties commit to consult and cooperate as appropriate on trade-related environmental issues of mutual interest. 2. The Parties reaffirm their commitment to effectively implement in their laws and practice the multilateral environmental agreements to which they are parties including: (a) the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer; (b) the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; (c) the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; (d) the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (hereinafter referred to as "CITES"); (e) the Convention on Biological Diversity; (f) the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity; and (g) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (43). 3. The Parties undertake to ensure that they have ratified by the date of entry into force of this Agreement, the Amendment to Article XXI of CITES, adopted at Gaborone (Botswana), on 30 April, 1983. 4. The Parties also undertake, to the extent they have not yet done so, to ratify and effectively implement, at the latest by the date of entry into force of this Agreement, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. 5. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any Party of measures to implement the agreements referred to in this Article, provided that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade.
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Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements. 1. The Parties recognise the value of international environmental governance and agreements as a response of the international community to global or regional environmental problems, and they stress the need to enhance the mutual supportiveness between trade and environment policies, rules and measures. In this context, they will consult and coop­ erate as appropriate with respect to negotiations on trade-related environmental issues of mutual interest. 2. The Parties shall effectively implement, in their respective laws, regulations or other measures and practices in their territories, the multilateral environmental agreements to which they are party (77). 3. The Parties affirm their commitment to reaching the ultimate objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred to as ‘UNFCCC’), and to effectively implementing the UNFCCC, its Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement of 12 December 2015 in a manner consistent with the principles and provisions of the UNFCCC. They commit to work together to strengthen the multilateral, rules-based regime under the UNFCCC building on the UNFCCC's agreed decisions, and to support efforts to develop a post-2020 international climate change agree­ ment under the UNFCCC applicable to all parties.
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Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements. The AK welcomes the admission of the environmental conventions sta- xxx: Montreal Protocol (Ozone), Basel Convention (Hazardous Waste), Stock- xxxx Convention (Persistent Organic Pollutants), Convention on Trading with Endangered Species of Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Convention on Biolo- gical Diversity, Rotterdam Convention (Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade) and the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nati- ons Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Related to Multilateral Environmental Standards and Agreements

  • Compliance with Environmental Laws Except as otherwise described in the Prospectus, and except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign law or regulation relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including without limitation, laws and regulations relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum and petroleum products (collectively, “Materials of Environmental Concern”), or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Materials of Environmental Concern (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), which violation includes, but is not limited to, noncompliance with any permits or other governmental authorizations required for the operation of the business of the Company or its subsidiaries under applicable Environmental Laws, or noncompliance with the terms and conditions thereof, nor has the Company or any of its subsidiaries received any written communication, whether from a governmental authority, citizens group, employee or otherwise, that alleges that the Company or any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any Environmental Law; (ii) there is no claim, action or cause of action filed with a court or governmental authority, no investigation with respect to which the Company has received written notice, and no written notice by any person or entity alleging potential liability for investigatory costs, cleanup costs, governmental responses costs, natural resources damages, property damages, personal injuries, attorneys’ fees or penalties arising out of, based on or resulting from the presence, or release into the environment, of any Material of Environmental Concern at any location owned, leased or operated by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, now or in the past (collectively, “Environmental Claims”), pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim the Company or any of its subsidiaries has retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law; and (iii) to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there are no past or present actions, activities, circumstances, conditions, events or incidents, including, without limitation, the release, emission, discharge, presence or disposal of any Material of Environmental Concern, that reasonably could result in a violation of any Environmental Law or form the basis of a potential Environmental Claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or against any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim the Company or any of its subsidiaries has retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law.

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