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Secretary of State requiring Territories to improve their compliance with treaty obligations, it is rare for sanctions to
An example is be imposed if compliance is still not achieved. the Secretary of State's Directive to Governors of 17 December 1985 concerning civil aviation standards.
(The Directive
required Governors to ensure that international standards were met and notified them that henceforth annual inspections would be made by the UK Civil Aviation Authority whose recommendations
would need to be implemented.)
There is scope for similar action
in other instances but there is also a reluctance in the FCO to take it not least because if specific requirements were imposed on Territories, those Territories might respond by demanding financial or other resources to meet the requirements imposed.
d.
Resource Implications
10.
Many of the Dependent Territories do not have the resources properly to implement all the international agreements we might wish to extend to them. Most local administrations are unlikely
to have sufficient infrastructures to monitor, say, imports/exports of goods subject to international control, or to supervise the implementation of complex shipping or aviation
Even if sufficient indigenous manpower were
regulations.
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