Examples of using Buffer stocks in English and their translations into Arabic
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Buffer stocks and export quotas, as used in past ICAs, are themselves a form of supply management, as are arrangements designed to reduce or eliminate excessive stocks overhanginga particular market.
The view was expressed that past failures of supply-management agreements had been mainly the result of political failures, and that there were sound economic reasons for keeping buffer stocks today.
The exercise included elements of simple tracking but also involved gathering information on needs assessment, buffer stocks, quality control, delivery schedules, and utilization pace at end-user level.
Rather than attempting to influence market prices through buffer stocks, the Fund was working on practical case-specific solutions for commodity-dependent developing countries(CDDCs), which involved expanding and diversifying their productive capacity, increasing their competitiveness, securing new markets, managing their risks, and developing access to services such as finance.
Unfortunately, for many of the past ICAs using buffer stocks, these were not adequately funded, while the availability of compensatory financing, especially during the 1980s, represented only a small proportion of the export shortfalls experienced by commodity-dependent countries.
Although relief agencies in some locations are able to continue emergency programmes on a limited scale through the use of buffer stocks, a deterioration of the humanitarian situation for the general population, and especially for the vulnerable groups, is already apparent in Malange, Cubal and Kuito.
The idea was to negotiate commodity agreements that would- through their own resources, as well as resources borrowed from a common financing facility to be established for this purpose- be able to finance buffer stocks to reduce price fluctuations and stabilize prices at levels remunerative to producers.
Stresses the importance of revisiting the discussion on the creation of international buffer stocks and requests the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to carry out a study, including on various proposals for international buffer stocks, with a view to making specific recommendations for achieving more stability in commodity markets and to curbing excessive speculation in commodity futures;
The Council may, by special vote, change these criteria and/or the selected types/grades if that is necessary to ensure that the composition of the Buffer Stock reflects the evolving market situation, attainment of the stabilization objectives of this Agreement and the need to maintain a high commercial standard of quality of buffer stocks.
The idea then was to negotiate the establishment of commodity agreements with economic clauses that could- through their own resources as well as resources borrowed from a common financing facility to be established for this purpose- be able to finance buffer stocks in order to reduce price fluctuations, and stabilize prices at levels remunerative to producers.
However, a new fund could have the added value of including in its mechanisms the global reinsurance fund(see paragraph 44 above); it could also serve to manage the virtual international reserve which could be established in order to meet the urgent needs of countries without disrupting markets, and to finance international buffer stocks as a part of international commodity agreements.
(a) Individually and through multilateral institutions and international organizations, to take measures to prohibit non-commercial stock exchange speculation by financial investors on, restrict the use of derivatives in relation to staple foods prices through regulations, in order to limit price volatility and ensure market stability, and consider re-establishing international buffer stocks to stabilize the price of food commodities, following the model developed in 2008 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;
prior to use in nuclear power plants, fresh fuel is stored on site, be it as plain uranium oxide fuel(UO2) or as mixed oxide fuel(UO2 and PuO2); such fuels represent limited proliferation risks in small quantities inside nuclear plants, more when in longer interim storage as fresh fuel buffer stocks elsewhere.
UNCTAD IV in 1976 approved the Integrated Programme for Commodities, but the agreement establishing the institutional cornerstone of the proposal, the Common Fund for Commodities, took over 10 years to negotiate and ratify, and only entered into force in June 1989; by then the philosophy it embodied- intervention in commodity markets by producer-consumer bodies through buffer stocks- had been essentially abandoned and the Fund had to search for a new role centred on the objective of commodity development.
(b) The contingency Buffer Stock of 150,000 tonnes.
Food warehouses were empty, there was no buffer stock and health problems had begun to occur with increasing regularity.
If these balances are inadequate, the Buffer Stock Manager shall sell a sufficient quantity of natural rubber in the Buffer Stock to provide the additional sum required.
Previous Agreements for cocoa had relied on a buffer stock plus export quotas, or on a buffer stock alone, to correct temporary or short-term market imbalances.
Currently, the Fund is looking at ways to activate the First Account within an objective of price stabilization and security outside of buffer stock proposals.
(ii) The contingency Buffer Stock has been invoked and is fully primed for action in accordance with the terms of article 30.