Transparency Regime News Today

Mrs Jemima Oware, Registrar, Office of the Registrar of Companies, (ORC), says Ghana’s Beneficial Ownership (BO) implementation journey has been marred with challenges despite progress in the setting up of the legal framework for implementation. “Funding, verification, software challenges and maintenance of systems are some challenges, but we continue to…

To quickly lower the risk of nuclear escalation, manage arms racing, and avoid a breakdown in future treaty negotiations, the United States, Russia, and China should consider five politically binding proposals to build transparency and confidence.

The Failed Transparency Regime for Executive Agreements Editors Note: This post is cross-posted on Just Security. In late October, the United States and Sudan reportedly signed a bilateral agreement “to resolve claims arising from the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.” This agreement apparently requires Sudan to pay hundreds of millions of dollars and commits the United States to enact legislation that would restore Sudan’s immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immun...

Agreements like this to have punitive measures to punish countries for non-enforcement. that was never in the cards. you could never have gotten that from 195 currents all of whom have to agree. what we do have, though, is a legally blinding transparency regime which has requirements for all countries, developed and developing, to put forward their -- to do reporting on their inventories and the measures they take to realize their targets and to have a strict review of those efforts through expe...

Negotiation going bit by bit, year by year, to get to the place we are now. and as you said, this is an historic and enormously important agreement. >> so theres been a range of reactions and theres been a split among folks who sort of follow this, particularly sort of climate activists. a lot of them are praising it and saying its great. a lot of them saying it does too little. a lot of them worried about essentially enforceability. my understanding is countries come up with their own pledges, ...

Countries for non-enforcement. that was never in the cards. you couldnt have gotten that from 195 currents all of whom have to agree. what we do have, though, is a legally blinding transparency regime which has requirements for all countries, developed and developing, to put forward -- to do reporting on their inventories and the measures they take to realize their targets and to have a strict review of those efforts through expert teams as well as peer review. so youve got a system for the firs...

But theres a lot of criticism. we dont have a sense as to whether or not or will there be surprise inspections, a way of really creating complete transparency through the process here and then what happens if iran doesnt play fair? how is that adjudicated? >> well, i think there are two important things here. the transparency regime that is being put in place is the most extensive ever in this kind of a negotiation. and indeed we have a process agreed to where access will be provided when access...