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  Draft to be considered by CEP Bureau (18 April 2013)

Draft to be considered by CEP Bureau (18 April 2013) Economic Commission for Europe Committee on Environmental Policy Twenty-sixth session Geneva, 9–11 November 2020 Item 11 of the provisional agenda Calendar of meetings Information paper No. 8 22 September 2020 Calendar of events and holidays in 2022 Note by the secretariat 1. As the currently agreed dates for the Conference (3–5 November 2021) overlapped with the new dates for the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (new dates: 1–12 November 2021), the Bureau at its virtual meeting on 4 June 2020 agreed to recommend that the Committee consider rescheduling the Ninth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference to take place in 2022 (preferably late spring – beginning of summer 2022). (...) The paper also includes an overview of main holidays observed by the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva and Cyprus Public Holidays in 2022. Information paper no. 8 Page 2 New Year’s Day - Cyprus Public & United Nations Holiday 1 January Epiphany - Cyprus Public Holiday 6 January Orthodox Christmas 7 January Orthodox Epiphany 19 January Green Monday - Cyprus Public Holiday 7 March Greek Independence Day - Cyprus Public Holiday 25 March National Day - Cyprus Public Holiday 1 April Good Friday – United Nations Holiday 15 April Easter 17 April Easter Monday - United Nations Holiday 18 April Orthodox Good Friday - Cyprus Public Holiday 22 April Orthodox Easter 24 April Orthodox Easter Monday - Cyprus Public Holiday 25 April Labour Day - Cyprus Public Holiday 1 May Eid al-Fitr – United Nations Holiday 3 May Whit Monday – United Nations Holiday 6 June Orthodox Whit Monday - Cyprus Public Holiday 13 June Eid al-Adha - United Nations Holiday 10 July 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Environment Programme Spring-summer (TBD) 50th Anniversary of United Nations Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972, the world’s first UN conference on sustainable development Spring-summer (TBD) Swiss Day - United Nations Holiday 1 August Information paper no. 8 Page 3 Assumption Day - Cyprus Public Holiday 15 August Jeûne genevois - United Nations Holiday 8 September Cyprus Independence Day - Cyprus Public Holiday 1 October Ochi Day - Cyprus Public Holiday 28 October 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the UNFCCC 7-18 November Christmas Eve - Cyprus Public Holiday 24 December Christmas Day - Cyprus Public & United Nations Holiday 25 December 2nd Day of Christmas - Cyprus Public Holiday 26 December Information paper no. 8 Page 4 Calendar of events and holidays in 2022 (Cyprus, UN, Church holidays & known international conferences highlighted) JANUARY M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 MAY M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SEPTEMBER M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 FEBRUARY M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 JUNE M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 OCTOBER M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 MARCH M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 JULY M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 NOVEMBER M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 APRIL M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 AUGUST M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 DECEMBER M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Legend: X - Cyprus public holiday X - United Nations holiday X – Western church holiday X – Orthodox church holiday X – Important international meetings in 2022 (known dates)

Score: 1048398 - https://unece.org/fileadmin/DA...ndar_of_events_2022_IP.8.e.pdf

  BEL - Belgium Centra

Any other times on request.   50°48'45"N 004°17'28"E Bandwidth measurements   8 kHz – 8 GHz   0700-1600   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Any other times on request.   50°48'45"N 004°17'28"E Direction-finding measurements   20 – 8000 MHz   0700-1600   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. (...) Any other times on request.   51°13'59"N 004°23'01"E Bandwidth measurements   8 kHz – 8 GHz   0700-1600   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Any other times on request.   51°13'59"N 004°23'01"E Direction-finding measurements   20 – 8000 MHz   0700-1600   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. (...) Any other times on request.   50°38'30"N 005°33'18"E Bandwidth measurements   8 kHz – 8 GHz   0700-1600   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Any other times on request.   50°38'30"N 005°33'18"E Direction-finding measurements   20 – 8000 MHz   0700-1600   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Score: 1041721.5 - https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/t...listVIII/Documents/BEL-en.docx

  The 17 days of sustainability: a holiday challenge | FAO Stories | Food and Agriculture Organization

The 17 days of sustainability: a holiday challenge | FAO Stories | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Toggle navigation العربية 中文 english français Русский Español AR ZH EN FR RU ES The 17 days of sustainability: a holiday challenge 17 ways you can help make this a very merry and sustainable holiday season! This holiday season, let’s pave the way for a better year by working toward sustainability, in all areas of life. (...) This holiday season, let’s pave the way for a better year!

Score: 1034281.6 - https://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1460009/

  Etpu

For planning and technical reasons, staff members should inform their supervisors before 31 January 2022 of the floating holiday they wish to observe. Managers are to respect the floating holiday chosen by the staff member. If, owing to exigencies of service, a staff member in the General Service and related categories is required to report for work on the date chosen as the floating holiday, the staff member will be recorded as having taken the floating holiday and compensated for overtime worked on an official holiday. Staff in the Professional and higher categories who are required to work on the date chosen as the floating holiday may choose to observe another day as a floating holiday.

Score: 1027649.4 - https://www.ungeneva.org/sites...ited-Nations-Office-Geneva.pdf

  Belarusian Parliament Adopted Laws to Ratify Two ILO Conventions

Belarusian Parliament Adopted Laws to Ratify Two ILO Conventions On November 27, 2019 the House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly adopted the draft laws “On Ratifying the Safety and Health in Mines Convention (No. 176)” and “On Ratifying the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970”. News | 27 November 2009 The first draft law was adopted with a view to ratifying the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176) which established minimum security standards regarding mine facilities, accidents prevention, mine rescue as well as adequate ventilation and air supply in mines and roadways. (...) The draft law “On Ratifying the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970” envisages to ratify ILO Convention No. 132 adopted by the 54th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva on June 24, 1970 and effective on June 30, 1973. Convention No. 132 established the minimum length of an annual paid holiday after one year of service; minimum period of service entitling to an annual paid holiday; counting the periods of absence for valid reasons such as disease, accident or maternity leave into the length of service; exclusion of public and customary holidays from the annual holiday; payment of the average wage in respect of the full period of holiday; possibility to divide the annual holiday into parts and the procedure to use them; provision of a cash compensation in lieu of the annual holiday.

Score: 1015799.9 - www.ilo.org/moscow/news...WCMS_731587/lang--en/index.htm

  Belarusian Parliament Adopted Laws to Ratify Two ILO Conventions

Belarusian Parliament Adopted Laws to Ratify Two ILO Conventions On November 27, 2019 the House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly adopted the draft laws “On Ratifying the Safety and Health in Mines Convention (No. 176)” and “On Ratifying the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970”. News | 27 November 2009 The first draft law was adopted with a view to ratifying the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176) which established minimum security standards regarding mine facilities, accidents prevention, mine rescue as well as adequate ventilation and air supply in mines and roadways. (...) The draft law “On Ratifying the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970” envisages to ratify ILO Convention No. 132 adopted by the 54th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva on June 24, 1970 and effective on June 30, 1973. Convention No. 132 established the minimum length of an annual paid holiday after one year of service; minimum period of service entitling to an annual paid holiday; counting the periods of absence for valid reasons such as disease, accident or maternity leave into the length of service; exclusion of public and customary holidays from the annual holiday; payment of the average wage in respect of the full period of holiday; possibility to divide the annual holiday into parts and the procedure to use them; provision of a cash compensation in lieu of the annual holiday.

Score: 1015799.9 - https://www.ilo.org/moscow/new...WCMS_731587/lang--en/index.htm

  CTI - Côte d'Ivoire

Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Dipole. Log-periodic antenna.   05°18'00''N 003°58'00''W Direction-finding measurements   25 MHz - 1000 MHz   1300-1700   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. (...) Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Dipole. Log-periodic antenna.   05°18'00''N 003°58'00''W Direction-finding measurements   25 MHz - 3000 MHz   1300-1700   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. (...) The system is portable and can be used at any site.   05°18'00''N 003°58'00''W Automatic spectrum occupancy surveys   20 MHz - 3000 MHz   0800-1200   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Log-periodic antenna.   05°18'00''N 003°58'00''W Automatic spectrum occupancy surveys   20 MHz - 3000 MHz   1300-1700   Except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Score: 1013653.8 - https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/t...listVIII/Documents/CTI-en.docx

  prs-3-1

Short survey concerning the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132), by Professor R. (...) Re-examination of the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132) Recent developments 4. (...) The main issues raised by the independent expert concern whether governments are required to legislate; the compulsory nature of the holiday; the qualification period for entitlements; and restrictions concerning the timing of holidays. 8.

Score: 1009790 - www.ilo.org/public/engl.../gb/docs/gb277/pdf/prs-3-1.pdf

  Microsoft Outlook - Memo Style

Kind regards Rebecca O'Connell and the Families and Food in Hard Times research team Holiday hunger requires radical long term solutions https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/08/15/holiday-hunger-requires-radical-long-term-solutions/ Last month the UK government announced £2 million of funding for free holiday activities and meals for disadvantaged families, with children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi noting: “For most pupils, the end of the school summer term signals the start of holidays, days out and a chance to make memories with friends and family. (...) (Bryony,* aged 13, coastal town in the south east of England) 2 The school holidays bring greater financial and social pressures for families. However, “there are a range of structural causes of poverty that increase the vulnerability of children and families to experiencing hunger in the school holidays, and in that sense, holiday hunger is not a discrete issue to be considered in isolation.”

Score: 997958.5 - https://www.ohchr.org/sites/de...8/Academics/RebeccaConnell.pdf

  Microsoft PowerPoint - 25 Country Experience - Zambia [Read-Only]

. • Investment and development allowances (manufacturing and farming respectively) 2 Current Tax Incentives • Reduced corporate income tax rates at 10% on income from Farming and Agro-processing; and 15% on Income from Non – traditional exports (standard rate 35%). • Five year tax holidays on approved priority sector activities (e.g. (...) Current Tax Incentives • Zero Withholding tax rates on payments of interest and dividends – Interest paid to individuals arising from deposit and savings accounts held with financial institutions Dividends paid by mining companies Five year holiday on dividends paid by farming companies. • Indirect tax incentives – Reduction or exemption on import duties and import VAT. 3 Previous Tax Incentives Zambia has been streamlining the incentives that were/are linked to approval under the ZDA Act from 2012 to date due to, among other reasons: • Footloose investments. • Lack of proper sunset provisions. • Overlap of incentives. • Over incentivized regime (long priority sector/product list, long duration for incentives) • Results/impact of incentives not clearly identifiable • Poor/lack of monitoring of incentives mechanism Previous Tax Incentives Some of the incentives that have been removed - • Tax holidays of 5 or 3 years on small and micro enterprises that were granted based on one’s location. • 5- year tax holidays from year of returning a taxable profit with an additional 5 year period for a reduced tax rate on privileged zones/ sectors. 4 Previous Tax Incentives Some of the incentives removed cont’…d- • Five year tax holidays on WHT deductions on dividends. • Five or three year tax holiday on income earned by small and micro enterprises. • Five-year tax holiday from the year of returning a taxable profit with an additional 5 year period for a reduced tax rate on privileged zones/ sectors. (...) Other Matters • Regionally, under the Southern African Development Community (SADC) there is an undertaking by members countries to stop harmful tax competition and to have consensus on having a common approach in the application and treatment of tax incentives (e.g minimum tax rates, use of tax holidays). • SADC has/is developing Guidelines on Tax incentives with input from Member countries aimed at providing guidance on designing of legislation, enhancing transparency and limiting discretion, protection of tax base etc. 7 THANK YOU

Score: 994511 - https://www.un.org/esa/ffd/wp-...P_CountryExperience-Zambia.pdf