Regional Focal Points

Each regional group is coordinated by an ALMERA regional focal point. 

At its meeting held in Vienna in June 2005, the Project Prism Task Force decided to undertake a three-month regional survey to monitor the production and licit uses of and trade in safrole-rich oils, in particular sassafras oil, in South-East Asia. It is planned that the UNODC precursor project for South-East Asia, which is assisting the central national authority of China in its role as the regional focal point for Asia, will organize... 

Contributor factories combine source and server factory principles. They primarily serve specific national or regional markets but also become focal points for certain production processes, components or products. 

The designation of the Director for External Relations as the focal point for universality within the Secretariat and an invitation to States Parties to designate voluntary and informal points of contact (POCs) in all regions and sub-regions relevant for the effective promotion of universality were of particular importance for the implementation of the Action Plan, which was well under way by early 2004. Several POCs have been nominated, by Bulgaria, Chile, China, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Oman, Palau, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the Slovak Republic, South Africa, Tajikistan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the State Party holding the presidency of the European Union. The Secretariat continues to work with these POCs and other interested States Parties to promote universahty of the CWC. 

As previously, the CH2 stretching vibrations in the 2850-2950-cm" region were the focal point for the lipid-related analyses. Since the area under the curve of an infrared absorbance is directly proportional to the amount of the absorbing species [62,63], the area under the asymmetric stretching band provided an indication of the amount of lipid in the vicinity of each measurement. Similarly, the frequency and bandwidth of these absorbances reported on the conformational order of the SC lipids under study. The water concentration in each successive layer was estimated from a measurement of the area under the O-H stretching band at 2100 cm" . The sequential IR analyses... 

For the period 2007-2009, the focal point for the Africa-Europe-Middle East region will be the IAEA central ALMERA coordinator, i.e. the Chemistry Unit of the IAEA Physics, Chemistry and Instrumentation Laboratory (PCI). 

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