Examples of using Draft element in English and their translations into Russian
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Use of these exemptions would be subject to the requirements of draft element 14.
Thus, this draft element is presented as a placeholder only.
For additional discussion of this issue, please refer to the comment for draft element 4.
This draft element would support a package approach by establishing an implementation committee.
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining would instead be addressed in draft element 9.
This draft element 14 would establish an allowable-use register to provide for such a transition.
Comment: The term"significant aggregate mercury emissions" 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.
The draft element is intended to present the minimum provisions needed to allow adoption as part of a package.
Elemental mercury recovered from such materials would ultimately be put into environmentally sound storage pursuant to this draft element.
This draft element would make the development and submission of an implementation plan discretionary rather than mandatory.
In defining the obligations that it imposes, this draft element, like several others, uses the term"not allow" instead of"ban" or"prohibit.
This draft element on atmospheric emissions responds to the mandate set out in paragraph 27(e) of Governing Council decision 25/5.
Comment: The committee may wish to consider whether all the terms defined below should be included in this draft element and whether any additional terms should be defined.
Comment: This draft element would prohibit or restrict the production and export of mercury from identified supply sources.
This approach may be appropriate because use 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 addresses trade in"commodity" mercury between Parties draft element 6 addresses trade with non-Parties.
By specifically stating that the use of mercury for artisanal andsmallscale gold mining is not an allowed use under the convention, this draft element would not allow the import or export of mercury for artisanal and smallscale gold mining.
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.
Moreover, mercury-containing pesticides covered under the Rotterdam Convention are not among the mercury-added products suggested for listing in Annex C please refer to the comment for draft element 5 for additional discussion of this issue.
Comment: This draft element would prevent the export of commodity mercury to non-Parties and would allow imports from them only for the purpose of environmentally sound storage.
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.
This draft element focuses primarily on establishing a framework to allow Parties to cooperate in addressing and preventing mercury pollution from artisanal and smallscale gold mining.
By being stricter than the element governing trade between Parties, this draft element, like its counterpart in the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, would serve as an incentive for States to become Parties to the convention.
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.
Comment: Similarly to the preceding draft element on mercury-added products, this draft element takes a positive list approach for manufacturing processes in which mercury is used.
Comment: This draft element responds to the wishes of Parties that would like the mercury instrument to contain an element that explicitly addresses mercury releases to water and land.
The draft element would not affect the preparation of separate national action plans under draft elements 8- 10, which are proposed as distinct obligations from those contained in this draft element 21.
Comment: This draft element is based upon text that appeared in a note on options for substantive provisions that might be included in the mercury instrument prepared by the secretariat for the committee's first session UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.1/5.
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.