Muhammad, however, by "instituting rights of property ownership, inheritance, education and divorce, gave women certain basic safeguards."

"It has been used to undercut basic safeguards of Federal law, and this has contributed to the current environment in which states want no Federal standards whatsoever."

A report by the state auditor released last week found that even basic safeguards of the public's money were not maintained, with the agency relying heavily on private contractors to manage projects.

Without interfering with the diversity of forms of organization, management and services inherent in a decentralized system, it attempts to establish certain basic, common safeguards throughout the country.

Under the treaty's basic safeguards, inspectors can check only acknowledged nuclear installations.

Bonhoeffer was executed after an SS court-martial in which not even the basic safeguards of the accused were observed.

Many of the problems are likely to arise when quarrying companies activate the large number of old mining permissions they own without basic environmental safeguards attached.

Beyond the basic safeguards, it agreed to abide by the treaty's "additional protocol," adopting "transparency measures."

Those basic safeguards must be restored.

I emphasise that there must be basic safeguards to guarantee that such data are retained for as little time as is strictly essential, after which they should be destroyed.