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Enterprises have to increase their productivity and competitiveness to increase manufacturing value added, to maintain or increase employment and to increase their export and domestic market shares, while better protecting the environment. (...) The centres act as one-stop-shops for productivity and quality improvements in the manufacturing sector and associated institutions by fostering production management upgrading at the level of enterprises, industrial sectors, supply chains, technology institutes and policy-related government bodies. (...) SMEs play a leading role in creating GC.9/11 Page 16 employment, income and value added, accounting for up to 90 per cent of manufacturing enterprises and between 40 and 80 per cent of manufacturing employment.

Suffice to say that the State may be held accountable where corporations perform public functions or are state-controlled. See the International Law Commission’s articles on “Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts”, adopted in November 2001 by the ILC (UN Doc. (...) A/HRC/4/35/Add.1 page 11 controlled enterprises or other companies exercising public functions (in situations where their acts may be attributed to the State) do not refrain from abuse or if the State has laws or policies which facilitate abuse by business enterprises.17 Furthermore, the treaty bodies suggest that it is important for States to promote human rights awareness for business enterprises. (...) A/HRC/4/35/Add.1 page 15 discusses food and medicine manufacturers and the extractive and manufacturing industries. For example, it provides that the duty to protect includes “the duties of States … to control the marketing of medical equipment and medicines by third parties”31 and highlights that the State could violate the duty to protect if among other things it fails to regulate the activities of corporations; protect consumers and workers; “discourage production, marketing and consumption of tobacco, narcotics and other harmful substances” and “enact or enforce laws to prevent the pollution of water, air and soil by extractive and manufacturing industries”.32 22.

NW CW BWf If yes, source document NW CW BW If yes, source document Remarks conditions for individuals or legal entities interested in importing, exporting, manufacturing, producing, processing, mixing, formulating, bottling, rebottling, packaging, repackaging, storing and marketing technical-grade active ingredients or formulated agrochemical products Regulations for the registration of individuals or legal entities interested in conducting activities linked to agricultural inputs and for the registration, renewal, import, return and export of such inputs (Ministerial Decision No. 1221-2004) Health Code (Decree No. 90-97), articles 69, 72, 73, 75, 106, 107, 162-171, 178-183, 196, 197, 201, 202, 206-212, 226 Regulations for Health Controls of Medications and Related Products (Governmental Decision No. 712-99) Regulations for the Control of Chemical Precursors and Substances (Governmental Decision No. 54-2003) S/A C .44/2013/24 13-59479 (C ) 29/67 National legal framework Enforcement: civil/criminal penalties and others Yes Yes Are any of the following measures, procedures or legislation in place to account for, secure or otherwise protect NW, CW, BW and Related Materials? (...) NW CW BWf If yes, source document NW CW BW If yes, source document Remarks renewal, endorsement (approval for use) and transfer regulations for substances similar to pesticides, microbial pesticides, biochemical pesticides, arthropods, predators, parasites and parasitoids, the requirements for importing, exporting and returning them, and the registration of individuals or legal entities linked to these inputs with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Central American Technical Regulation 65.05.61:11 on microbiological pesticides for agricultural use and registration requirements, and Ministerial Decision No. 11-2011 setting out registration and renewal conditions for individuals or legal entities interested in importing, exporting, manufacturing, producing, processing, mixing, formulating, bottling, rebottling, packaging, repackaging, storing and marketing technical-grade active ingredients or formulated agrochemical S/A C .44/2013/24 36/67 13-59479 (C ) National legal framework Enforcement: civil/criminal penalties and others Yes Yes Are any of the following measures, procedures or legislation in place to account for, secure or otherwise protect NW, CW, BW and Related Materials?

As the Special Representative observes, “companies may have additional responsibilities, for example, where they perform certain public functions” (para. 24). Also, according to the Special Representative, “human rights-related due diligence is determined by the context in which a company is operating, its activities, and the relationships associated with those activities” (para. 25). (...) Pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to ensure that their medicines are of good quality, safe and efficacious, for example, they must comply with national and global manufacturing standards e.g. the current World Health Organization Good Manufacturing Practice Guidelines. (...) Because of its critical social function, a patent on a life-saving medicine places important right-to-health responsibilities on the patent holder.

For example, the critical functions carried out by the European Chemicals Agency cannot simply be transferred into United 3 House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, Soil Health, First Report of Session 2016-7, 2 June 2016. 4 House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, The Future of the Natural Environment after the European Union Referendum, Sixth Report of Session 2016-17, 4 January 2017. (...) Should the Government fail to equal the European Union on air quality controls, chemical restrictions or product manufacturing standards, the United Kingdom market could risk becoming a haven for “dirty” industries and a dumping ground for products failing to meet European Union regulations. 20. (...) Criticisms of the updated United Kingdom National Action Plan include that it is lacking in new commitments, lacks a timetable for meeting objectives and does not provide clarity on which government departments have responsibility for various components of the business and human rights agenda. 35 In the view of the Special Rapporteur, the National Action Plan is also exceedingly vague, referring very generally to business enterprises without setting out expectations or recommendations for specific sectors, such as chemical manufacturing groups, waste disposal companies and other enterprises dealing with hazardous substances. 64.

A person who, in contravention of the prohibitions of the international law or provisions of law (statute), manufactures, collects, acquires, sells, stores, transports or transmits the weapons of mass destruction or develops them with the view to their manufacturing or use, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for 1 year up to 10 years (...) Control on the ground must be organised by Polish manufacturers, exporters, users, research and development centres, etc., manufacturing, using and exporting dual-use goods and technologies, military equipment and armaments subject to international control. (...) It is prohibited in the territory of the Republic of Poland, subject to Article 5: 1) development, production, manufacturing, processing, consumption or otherwise acquiring, collecting, stockpiling, sale or transfer to anyone of chemical weapons, 2) use of

Manufacturers and importers of electrical and electronic equipment should minimize the use of hazardous substances in the manufacturing or import of equipment (art. 5). Act on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal 14. (...) There is strong evidence that hazardous substances are used in electronics manufacturing. Apple Inc. has stated that it has eliminated or plans to eliminate the use of certain hazardous substances in the production of its electronics. (...) Ltd., SK Hynix, and Amkore Technology Korea Inc. commissioned the Seoul National University R&DB Foundation to evaluate the health hazards of their manufacturing facilities and to develop and implement improvement plans accordingly. 62.

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The Presidency carries out protocol functions and its unanimous approval is required for executive orders issued by the Prime Minister. (...) He found that the Iraqi people clearly wanted the Interim Government to be made up of impartial and competent individuals who would perform their functions until democratic elections could be held. (...) If social development is inextricably linked to economic development and revolves around the potential created by developments in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors, services are also inter-linked and need to be planned in a coordinated and coherent manner in order to avoid duplication in service provision.

In some cases the NWC may add to the functions and activities of such regimes and arrangements. (...) To report violations of this Convention to the Agency [and to cooperate to the fullest with the Agency’s investigative, monitoring and verification functions;] [and to provide to the Agency all information requested by the Agency for the purposes of implementing this Convention, except such information as may be with-held for legitimate international or national security or trade secret concerns;] j. (...) "Significant quantity" means the approximate quantity of nuclear material in respect of which, taking into account any conversion process involved, the possibility of manufacturing a nuclear explosive device cannot be excluded. 26.