Examples of using Draft element in English and their translations into Arabic
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SOME DRAFT ELEMENTS.
Use of these exemptions would be subject to the requirements of draft element 14.
II. DRAFT ELEMENTS OF BEST PRACTICE GUIDE.
Artisanal andsmall-scale gold mining would instead be addressed in draft element 9.
The draft elements provide a sound basis for those negotiations.
For additional discussion of this issue, please refer to the comment for draft element 4.
The draft element is intended to present the minimum provisions needed to allow adoption as part of a package.
Comment: The term" significant aggregate mercuryemissions" is defined in paragraph 6 of draft element 10.
This provision appears in paragraph 3 of this draft element and also in paragraph 3 of draft element 5.
Elemental mercury recovered from such materials would ultimately beput into environmentally sound storage pursuant to draft element 4.
Paragraph 4 of this draft element is intended to avoid prejudicing Parties ' negotiating positions on this question.
Comment: Please refer to the comment about artisanal andsmall-scale gold mining included in the introductory comments to draft element 5.
The draft elements reflect the Secretary-General ' s proposals for the Dispute Tribunal and the Appeals Tribunal, as set out in his note(A/61/758).
In defining the obligations that it imposes, this draft element, like several others, uses the term" not allow" instead of" ban" or" prohibit".
Allowable-use exemptions, if available, could be specified in the right-hand column, in a similar manner to that of Stockholm Convention annexes A andB. Their use would be subject to the requirements of draft element 14.
Comment: This draft element addresses trade in" commodity" mercury between Parties(draft element 6 addresses trade with non-Parties).
This approach may be appropriate becauseuse of elemental mercury under the allowable-use exemptions of draft element 14 may continue for a significant period, making all elemental mercury a potential commodity.
Comment: This draft element would address the major anthropogenic sources of atmospheric mercury emissions listed in Annex E. It would have two sets of requirements.
Regarding the placement of definitions, the committee may wish to consider whether some terms may best be defined within the substantive orprocedural provisions to which they are relevant rather than in a stand-alone article as in this draft element.
Comment: The scope of effectiveness evaluation under this draft element could be comprehensive, including a review of administration and management aspects of the convention.
Under the approach suggested here," mercury wastes" would not include elemental mercury or mercury compounds that can easily be converted to elemental mercury; instead,the environmentally sound storage provisions of draft element 4 would apply to such substances.
Comment: This draft element is reproduced from the note on draft final provisions prepared by the secretariat for the committee ' s first session(UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.1/7).
It therefore does not address mercury releases to water and land,which are addressed under draft element 3 on mercury supply sources, draft element 8 on mercury-added processes, draft element 9 on artisanal and smallscale gold mining, draft element 12 on mercury wastes and draft element 13 on contaminated sites.
As in the case of draft element 5, the prior informed consent procedure in paragraph 2 would impose obligations additional to those imposed on Parties to the Rotterdam Convention that have taken national actions to ban or severely restrict mercury.
Paragraph 5 is provided to maintain the coherence of this draft element; it is recognized, however, that the committee may decide to resolve some or all of these questions in the convention text rather than delegate them to the Conference of the Parties for resolution after the entry into force of the convention.
Accordingly, the draft element would require the Parties to develop guidance on environmentally sound storage that would take into account the need for flexibility and interim measures and, in particular, the capacities and needs of developing-country Parties and Parties with economies in transition.
Comment: In paragraph(f) of draft element 2 a" mercury-added product" is defined as" a product or product component that contains mercury or a mercury compound intentionally added to provide a specific characteristic, appearance or quality, to perform a specific function; or for any other reason".
As is noted in the comment to draft element 2(definitions), the committee may wish to consider developing definitions for some of the terms that appear in this draft element 12, such as" mercury wastes" and" environmentally sound disposal of mercury wastes", bearing in mind the relationship that such definitions could have to the provisions forenvironmentally sound storage of mercury contained in draft element 4.
For the draft element establishing the secretariat, an additional provision, paragraph 4 of element 25, would authorize the Conference of the Parties to consult the appropriate bodies of other conventions of the chemicals cluster in respect of the continuing synergies process elaborated in Bali, Indonesia, in February 2010 at the extraordinary meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions.
Preference for checklist and drafting elements rather than" model legislation".