Examples of OECS Member States in a sentence
Onshore banking legislation is uniform among all OECS Member States.
At the sub-regional level, the OECS Member States in the year 2000 issued and subsequently endorsed the St. George's Declaration of Principles for Environmental Sustainability in the OECS, which includes a commitment to the conservation of biological diversity and the protection of areas of outstanding scientific, cultural, spiritual, ecological, scenic and aesthetic significance.
Given the architecture already advanced for the CARICOM APIS and the fact that some data required for the MSW is already being collected by IMPACS on behalf of participating Member States, the request was subsequently amended to reflect the establishment of the MSW using the APIS platform already in existence in all CARICOM Member States as well as to support the augmentation of the ACIS Platform to enhance OECS Member States risk management capability.
The Working Group shall endeavour to reach a consensus, taking into consideration the policy framework of the participating OECS Member States.
The average rank for the OECS Member States is 93 compared to 106 for all CARICOM Member States.
Using data generated in the Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All Report by the World Bank Group, the assessment concluded that overall, the OECS Member States ranked higher compared to non-OECS members who are part of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Concomitantly, OECS Member States are signatories to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Convention on the Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL Convention 1965), which aims to facilitate maritime transport by simplifying and minimising the formalities, documentary requirements and procedures with the arrival, stay and departure of ships engaged on international voyages.
Structured around twenty one principles, the Declaration mandates OECS Member States to ensure the sound management of the biophysical environment, and is implemented by OECS member countries at the national level through the National Environmental Management Strategy (NEMS).
The 2002 Fisheries Act of Guyana likewise has the effect of bringing Guyana’s fisheries legislation in harmony with the harmonized fisheries laws of the OECS Member States and Barbados.
The Regional Minimum Standards for Children’s Residential Services9can potentially go a long way in shaping the region’s adoption, foster care and institutional responses to children who are in need of care and protection.These regional and international standards, together with the range of above-mentioned indicators that can assist with data collection and child justice processes and procedures, are readily accessible to all OECS Member States.