United Nations scale of assessment

Each State Party shall meet the costs of destruction of chemical weapons production facilities it is obliged to destroy. It shall also meet the costs of verification under this Article unless the Executive Council decides otherwise. If the Executive Council decides to hmit verification measures of the Organization pursuant to paragraph 16, the costs of complementary verification and monitoring by the Organization shall be paid in accordance with the United Nations scale of assessment, as specified in Article Vllf, paragraph 7. 

The costs of the OPCW s activities shall be paid by States Parties in accordance with the United Nations scale of assessments adjusted to take into account differences in membership between the United Nations and the OPCW, and subject to the provisions of Articles IV and V of the Convention. The contributions from States Parties shall finance the appropriations approved by the Conference of the States Parties. Assessed contributions shall be subject to the adjust-... 

The expenses of the Commission, including those of the Provisional Technical Secretariat, shall be met by the States signatories to the Convention, participating in the Commission, in accordance with the United Nations scale of assessment, adjusted to take into account differences between the United Nations membership and the participation of States signatories in the Commission and timing of signature. The Commission and the Provisional Technical Secretariat may also benefit from voluntary contributions. 

This monitoring framework should be apphed across broad geographic regions. This book recommends a national or (preferably) continental scale of assessment. The data collected in the United States shonld also be comparable, to the extent feasible and appropriate, with other North American and global mercury monitoring efforts, particularly monitoring of atmospheric transport and deposition. 

Musial, W., and B. Ram. 2010. Large-Scale Offshore Wind Power in the United States Assessment of Opportunities and Barriers. Report TP-500-40745. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colo. 

The available data from such trials are not yet sufficient to fully assess the risk-to-benefit ratio for vitamin C. There are no completed large-scale trials of vitamin C in the prevention or treatment of CVD. The United States National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute sponsored a recent conference, Antioxidants and the Prevention of Human Atherosclerosis (Steinberg and Workshop Participants, 1992). The summary statement supported the need for further large-scale randomized trials examining the role of vitamin C as well as (3-carotene and vitamin E in the primary and secondary prevention of CVD. 

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