The Estimates also include payments this fiscal year under the Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act: $20 million to the International Finance Corporation for the implementation of winning proposals under the Small and Medium Enterprises Finance Challenge, which was an innovative competition that scales up financing of growth-oriented small enterprises in developing countries; $5.83 million to the International Finance Corporation for the Fast Start Climate Change Initiative to provide technical assistance to developing countries to aid in their efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impact of climate change; $285.72 million to the International Finance Corporation's Fast Start Climate Change Initiative, which wi ...[+++]ll be used to provide concessional financing to the private sector in order to support clean energy projects in developing countries; $1 million to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the Agriculture Advance Market Commitment to develop an innovative financing facility for agriculture.

In 1995, the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs noted that changes in the way that recorded votes are organized and arranged had significantly altered the context for consideration of electronic voting (this refers to the practices of deferring several votes to the same day and time, and of applying results or votes, which the Committee found to have “greatly speeded up the voting process”).

32. Deplores the postponement of the entry into force of the Modernised Customs Code (MCC) as provided for in the Commission's proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code (COM(2012)0064), and considers the proposed new date of 31 December 2020 to be unacceptable; recalls that Regulation (EC) No 450/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 laying down the Community Customs Code (Modernised Customs Code) provided that the MCC would enter into force by 24 June 2013 and urges the Commission and Member States to take the necessary steps in order to speed up the preparation ...[+++]process;

32. Insists that each of the 27 Member States must accelerate the revision of its national action plan on CSR, and the development of national plans implementing the relevant OECD Guidelines and UN Guiding Principles, which should be finalised by December 2013 at the latest; considers that the Member States should ensure that these plans are drafted with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, including NGOs, civil society, trade unions, employers’ organisations and national human rights institutions (NHRI); calls on the EU to facilitate learning from the experience of those Member States which are currently undergoing this process; encourages the Member States to draw inspiration from the guidelines contained in the ISO 26000 st ...[+++]andard, the most recent version of the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines and the guidance developed by the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions;

A revised action plan has been adopted for accelerated implementation of the government's delayed 2009 housing care plans, with the aim of full implementation in 2011.

(1) The need to clarify and optimise home-host responsibilities as integration accelerates and to deal with potential spill-over effects (3.2.1); (2) The need to explore delegation of tasks and responsibilities, while ensuring that supervisors have the necessary information and mutual trust (3.2.2.); (3) The need to improve the efficiency of supervision by avoiding duplicative reporting and information requirements (3.2.3); (4) The need for more consistent and timely cooperation and to develop a real pan-EU supervisory culture (3.2.4).