Examples of Joint Declaration in a sentence
If contractor performs this agreement without the assistance of any other persons, contractor shall execute a Joint Declaration with county's Workers’ Compensation carrier absolving county of any and all liability as provided in ORS 656.029.
The ACP-EU Migration Dialogue was launched in June 2010 through a Joint Declaration of the ACP-EU Joint Council.
In accordance with the provisions of Article 294 of the TFEU and the Joint Declaration on practical arrangements for the codecision procedure 1, a number of informal contacts have taken place between the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission with a view to reaching an agreement on this legislative file at first reading.
Later that year, the LMRB states adopted a revised version of the Water Charter as the 1975 Joint Declaration of Principles for Utilization of the Waters of the Lower Mekong Basin (1975 Joint Declaration) to replace the 1957 Mekong Statute (Pichyakorn, 2005).
Water allocation became the emerging issue for each country.The pro-western government of Thailand, beginning to realize financial independence and eager to begin national dam projects, was determined to thwart the 1957 Mekong Statute and 1975 Joint Declaration ‘unanimity rule’ (Makim, 2002) whereby one country could effectively veto another country’s water projects (Handley & Hiebert, 1992).
As predicted by Stephen McCaffrey (2007), one of the world’s foremost authorities on international water resources law and Special Rapporteur for the International Law Commission’s (ILC) draft articles for the 1997 UN Convention, Article 5(A) of the 1995 Mekong Agreement was destined to cause future problems.As progressive as it was, the 1975 Joint Declaration was never put into practice and unfortunately met an untimely end in that same year, largely due to the geopolitical disruptions in Southeast Asia.
It is argued here that a more comprehensive legal regime such as that embodied in the 1975 Joint Declaration and the 1997 UN Convention is needed to manage the LMRB and to shift the paradigm of the Mekong legal regime toward sustainable development.
Considered together, the 1957 Mekong Statute and the 1975 Joint Declaration effectively gave the states veto power over planned measures on the mainstream and major tributaries through this ‘unanimity rule’ (Makim, 2002).
In stark contrast to the 1995 Mekong Agreement in which environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are a non legal-binding policy, the 1975 Joint Declaration required assessments of short- and long-term ecological impacts to other basin states before undertaking mainstream projects (Article XVII).
Mainstream waters are defined in Article X of the 1975 Joint Declaration as ‘a resource of common interest not subject to major unilateral appropriation by any riparian State without prior approval by the other Basin States through the Committee’.