Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising the sovereign right of each Party to establish its domestic policies and priorities on sustainable development, and its own levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection.
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Samples: Trade Agreement, Trade Agreement, Trade Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising The Parties recognise the sovereign right of each Party to establish its domestic policies and priorities on sustainable development, and its own levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, consistent and to adopt or modify its relevant law and policy accordingly, consistently with the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party Article 152. The Parties shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for and encourage aim at high levels of environmental and labour protection.
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Samples: Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising the sovereign right of each Party to establish its domestic policies and priorities on sustainable development, and its own levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations laws and policies; , each Party shall strive seek to ensure that its relevant those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards or agreements referred to in Articles 5.4 and 5.5, and shall strive to continue to improve those laws and policies.
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Samples: Framework Agreement, Framework Agreement, Framework Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising the sovereign right of each Party to establish determine its domestic sustainable development policies and priorities on sustainable developmentpriorities, and to establish its own levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws and policies, in a manner consistent with its commitment to the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 274 and 270275, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection and shall strive to continue to improve those laws and policies and their underlying levels of protection.
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Samples: Partnership Agreement, Partnership Agreement, Partnership Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising The Parties recognise the sovereign right of each Party to establish determine its domestic sustainable development policies and priorities on sustainable developmentpriorities, and to establish its own levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, consistent and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant law and policies, consistently with their commitment to the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 229 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels 230 of environmental and labour protectionthis Agreement.
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Samples: Association Agreement, Association Agreement, Association Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising the sovereign right of each Party to establish its domestic policies and priorities on sustainable development, and its own levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations laws and policies; , each Party shall strive seek to ensure that its relevant those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards or agreements referred to in Articles 13.4 and 13.5, and shall strive to continue to improve those laws and policies.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising 1. The Parties recognise the sovereign right of each Party to establish determine its domestic sustainable development policies and priorities on sustainable developmentpriorities, and to establish its own levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, consistent and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant law and policies, consistently with their commitment to the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 229 and 270230 of this Agreement.
2. In that context, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws law and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection and shall strive to continue to improve its law and policies and the underlying levels of protection.
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Samples: Association Agreement, Association Agreement, Association Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising the sovereign right of each Party Parties to establish its set their domestic policies and priorities on of sustainable development, and its their own levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 3 and 2704, and to adopt or modify accordingly its their relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection.
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Samples: Trade Agreement, Trade Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising 1. The Parties recognise the sovereign right of each Party to establish to:
(a) determine its domestic sustainable development policies and priorities on sustainable development, and its own priorities;
(b) establish the levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, including social protection, that it deems appropriate; and
(c) adopt or modify its relevant law and policies. Such levels, law and policies shall be consistent with each Party's commitment to the Agreements and internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protectionthis Chapter.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising 1. The Parties recognize the sovereign right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic policies and priorities on sustainable development, environmental protection and its own levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 and 270priorities, and to adopt establish, adopt, or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations environmental laws and policies; each policies accordingly.
2. Each Party shall strive endeavour to ensure that its relevant environmental laws and policies provide for for, and encourage encourage, high levels of environmental protection, and labour shall endeavour to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection.
3. The Parties recognize that a key principle underpinning their environmental laws and policies is that those who pollute the environment should bear the cost of that pollution.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising The Parties recognise the sovereign right of each Party to establish determine its domestic sustainable development policies and priorities on sustainable developmentpriorities, and to establish its own levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, consistent and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant law and policies, consistently with their commitment to the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 332 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels 333 of environmental and labour protectionthis Agreement.
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Samples: Strategic Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement
Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising The Parties recognise the sovereign right of each Party to establish its domestic policies and priorities on sustainable development, and its own levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 269 and 270, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, regulations and policies; each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for in a manner consistent with their respective Constitutions, and encourage high levels the provisions of environmental and labour protectionthis Agreement, in order to set their own sustainable development priorities.
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Samples: Free Trade Agreement