Sentence examples for intergovernmental committees from inspiring English sources

He also represents the Commissioner on various intergovernmental committees in negotiation with State legislators and in negotiations with employee unions.

Winners are selected by an intergovernmental committee of 24 countries.

Eurotunnel, as well as a French-British intergovernmental committee, approved those recommendations this year.

I.O.C. officials also praised Prime Minister Costas Simitis for setting up an intergovernmental committee to prod the Greek bureaucracy to meet deadlines for $3 billion in building and transportation projects.

But Mr. Borloo and Mr. Bussereau said that the French emphasized Wednesday at a meeting of the intergovernmental committee "the absolute necessity for exhaustive studies" before distributed traction trains could be authorized.

A compromise offer from South Africa and Ethiopia for an intergovernmental expert committee will also be on the table for discussion today.

Hosted by the United Nations Environment Program, the intergovernmental negotiating committee is charged with drafting a global treaty to rid the world of the threats posed by mercury.

Councilman Patrick Dowd, chairman of the City Council's intergovernmental affairs committee, complained that the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority had been vague about how money from the tax increment financing plan would be used at Buncher's site.

While the idea, discussed in Addis, of an intergovernmental tax committee at the UN has real flaws, this week's controversy on the issue has shone a valuable spotlight on the fact that the OECD – a developed country club – cannot be the place where global norms on tax that affect every country on earth are set.

The ITU also caused the United Nations to endorse the summit and to do it "through an open-ended intergovernmental preparatory committee that would define the agenda of the summit, decide on the modalities of the participation of other stakeholders in the summit, and finalize both the draft declaration and the draft plan of action".

UN leadership on peacebuilding has three main components: the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), which is an intergovernmental advisory committee; the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), which is a Multi-Donor Trust Fund MDTFF); and the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), which provides direction and guidance on the programme management of the PBF and monitors its operations.