Re: [soac-mapo] RE: Follow-up from Monday's Consultation on Rec. 6 - correction

["Carvell Mark \(IE\)" <Mark.Carvell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip

I have to take issue with "severely limited" . We do in fact represent 
governments - not solely our individual ministries - and in fulfilling that 
responsibility we have ready recourse to consult across administrations to 
points of specific relevant policy authority and to the appropriate legal 
experts. 

Best regards 

Mark

Mark Carvell
UK Representative on the GAC

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Sent: Thu Nov 18 14:41:26 2010
Subject: [soac-mapo] RE: Follow-up from Monday's Consultation on Rec. 6 - 
correction 


 
Correction below - acronym confusion - apologies

 
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From: owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Philip Sheppard
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:23 PM
To: 'soac-mapo'
Subject: [soac-mapo] RE: Follow-up from Monday's Consultation on Rec. 6


As ever I do enjoy Milton's absolute certainty about the uncertain.
 
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As to the questions I concur that we all agreed the Board should take ultimate 
responsibility.
But I believe we recognised that the Board lacked expertise and so foresaw the 
need for external experts.
Whether such provision is an automatic staff referral on receipt of an 
objection or needs to wait around for a Board meeting to occur, was I believe 
an open question.
This seems to be the essence of the practical application question regardless 
of what we call the experts.
 
As to supermajorities of  GAC or governments, we must recall that the 
individual  GAC appointees are also not experts in this area.
The underlying ministries whence the  GAC appointees come are also not the 
experts in this area.
The ability of a GAC appointee to be able to speak for his/her government 
definitively of this issue is I believe severely limited.
Lets bear this in mind.
 
Philip
 
 
 

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