Technical Co-operation. 1. In order to increase the preparedness for and to mitigate the risks to human health and the environment arising from land and/or forest fires or haze pollution arising from such fires, the Parties shall undertake technical co-operation in this field, including the following:
a. Facilitate mobilisation of appropriate resources within and outside the Parties;
b. Promote the standardisation of the reporting format of data and information;
c. Promote the exchange of relevant information, expertise, technology, techniques and know-how;
d. Provide or make arrangements for relevant training, education and awareness-raising campaigns, in particular relating to the promotion of zero-burning practices and the impact of haze pollution on human health and the environment;
e. Develop or establish techniques on controlled burning particularly for shifting cultivators and small farmers, and to exchange and share experiences on controlled-burning practices;
f. Facilitate exchange of experience and relevant information among enforcement authorities of the Parties;
g. Promote the development of markets for the utilisation of biomass and appropriate methods for disposal of agricultural wastes;
h. Develop training programmes for firefighters and trainers to be trained at local, national and regional levels; and
i. Strengthen and enhance the technical capacity of the Parties to implement this Agreement.
2. The ASEAN Centre shall facilitate activities for technical co- operation as identified in paragraph 1 above.
Technical Co-operation. 1. The Parties shall co-operate to increase the understanding of their respective government procurement systems, with a view to maximising the access to government procurement opportunities for the suppliers of both Parties.
2. Each Party shall take reasonable measures to provide to the other Party and to the suppliers of the other Party, on a cost recovery basis, information concerning training and orientation programs regarding its government procurement system.
Technical Co-operation. In order to further the objectives of this Agreement, the Member States shall encourage and facilitate the interchange of applied scientific and technical knowledge between their respective countries.
Technical Co-operation. The Member States agree:
(a) to develop a pool of national expertise and capabilities to support the implementation of regional programmes funded from the regular budget and provide counterpart project personnel for donor-funded projects;
(b) to develop a regional roster of all expertise, know-how and skills available in the region including those national experts not resident in the area;
(c) to design a mechanism for mobilising and effectively utilising national expertise in the Member States in the conceptualisation, design, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of regional projects approved by the Member States;
(d) to provide readily available resources for financing technical co-operation programmes in the Member States related to regional programming and the implementation of common projects;
(e) to provide resources to enable national experts from one Member State to assist other Member States to acquire skills and capabilities in specified areas related to regional co-operation; and
(f) to enable the Common Market to tap and attract national experts residing outside the region to participate in co- operation programmes. The Member States recognise the need for effective resource mobilisation, investment and the importance of encouraging increased flow of private sector investment into the Common Market for development. To this end, the Member States agree to adopt harmonised macro-economic policies that shall attract private sector investment into the Common Market.
Technical Co-operation. 1. The Parties shall co-operate to increase the understanding of their respective government procurement systems, with a view to maximising the access to government procurement opportunities for the suppliers of both Parties.
2. Each Party shall take reasonable measures to provide to the other Party and to the suppliers of the other Party, on a cost recovery basis, information concerning training and orientation programs regarding its government procurement system. The first exchange of information under paragraph 7 of Article 63 (Provision of Information) will take place two years after the entry into force of this Agreement. In the meantime, the Parties will communicate to each other all available and comparable relevant data on a reciprocal basis. Exceptions 1. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent any Party from taking any action or not disclosing any information which it considers necessary for the protection of its essential security interests relating to the procurement of arms, ammunition or war materials, or to procurement indispensable for national security or for national defense purposes. 2. Provided that such measures are not applied in a manner that would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between Parties where the same conditions prevail or a disguised restriction on trade between the Parties, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent any Party from adopting or maintaining measures: (a) necessary to protect public morals, order or safety; (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health; (c) necessary to protect intellectual property; or (d) relating to goods or services of handicapped persons, of philanthropic institutions or of prison labor.
Technical Co-operation. The Parties shall endeavour to promote inclusive technical co-operation activities in audio- visual works and related areas such as computer graphics, virtual reality and digital cinema technologies.
Technical Co-operation. 1. The Governments agree that it is in their common interest for the implementing authorities to work together in technical co-operation activities related to controlling anti-competitive activities.
2. The technical co-operation activities may include, within the reasonably available resources of the implementing authority of each Country, the following:
(a) exchange of implementing authorities’ personnel for training purposes; and
(b) participation of implementing authorities’ personnel as lecturers or consultants at training courses on competition laws and regulations organised or sponsored by each other’s implementing authority.
Technical Co-operation. 7.1. The Parties may provide each other with technical co-operation in order to take advantage of their respective experience and to strengthen the implementation of their respective competition laws and policies.
Technical Co-operation. 1. Whenever desirable for the development of their activities in fields of mutual concern, the International Labour Organisation and the Organisation of African Unity may each seek the other's technical co- operation where it is specially equipped to assist in the development of such activities.
2. Every effort will be made to meet any such request for technical co- operation in a manner to be agreed in such cases as may arise.
3. The International Labour Organisation and the Organisation of African Unity, upon request and within their available resources, shall assist each other as regards administrative, conference and general service staff, as well as in the provision of experts on economic, social and labour matters. This assistance shall be furnished with due regard to the exclusively international character of the staff of the two Organisations, and to their obligations under the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation and the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity as well as to their respective staff rules and regulations.
4. Likewise, within the limits of their resources, the two Organisations shall assist each other in the professional training of the different categories of personnel specified in paragraph 3 above.
Technical Co-operation. The Parties may, subject to resources, provide each other with technical co-operation related to the implementation of competition laws and policy. Such technical co-operation activities may include:
(a) exchange of personnel for training purposes;
(b) participation of personnel as lecturers or consultants at training courses on competition laws and policies organised by the competition authorities of the Parties; and
(c) any other form of technical co-operation as mutually decided by the competition authorities of the Parties.
