Sentences with phrase «issues committee of»

The Ethics and Professional Issues Committee of the Canadian Bar Assocation (CBA) has developed a new Guidelines for Practicing Ethically with New Information Technologies.
The Ethics and Professional Issues Committee of the Canadian Bar Association recently published Guidelines for Practicing Ethically with New Information
Ms. Garrett is based in MLSA's Missoula office and serves on the Montana Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team, the Planet Kids Supervised Visitation Center Advisory Council, the Legal Issues Committee of the Ravalli County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the JUST RESPONSE (Missoula Justice System Coordinated Team Response to Intimate Partner Violence).
The statement, drafted by the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and the Public and Professional Policy Committee of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), was published online March 18 in the European Journal of Human Genetics.

Not exact matches

Diamonte serves on the board for the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, representing more than 100 of the country's largest private - sector retirement funds on fiduciary and investment issues in Washington.
One section of the book, drawn up in 1992, reads: «The documents of the cabinet and ministerial committees are issued primarily to the sovereign, the Prince of Wales, and ministers... The need for secrecy calls for special care in circulation and handling.
During Comey's testimony about his interactions with the president before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month, Comey said he had no issue with the president releasing possible recordings of their conversations, should they exist.
«Ultimately the issue here is whether the FCC had the authority to call [broadband carriers] common carriers, and subject them to the regulations on discrimination and open access,» says Gary Resnick, chairman of the FCC's Intergovernmental Advisory Committee, and an attorney.
On Monday, when the committee was announced, Philidor issued a statement saying it welcomed the creation of the committee and it was «proud of the company we have built and value our working relationship with Valeant.»
The lack of any apparent pattern to the decisions seems to reveal that the people who sit on the committee that issues sexual - misconduct rulings don't seem to know how and when to hand down punishment.
Dispute resolution will be subject to binding commercial arbitration if a steering committee made up of companies and unions is unable to solve an issue.
In early February, $ 81 million had been stolen from Bangladesh's central bank by hackers who issued bogus instructions via Swift, the global interbank payment system, according to reports by the Philippine Senate committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Bangladesh Ministry of Finance.
To address this issue, Pacific Rubiales struck a gender committee to implement a series of programs and tools to promote gender equality across the company and the communities in which it operates.
Shortly after Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama that year, Trump had his lawyers trademark the slogan, «Make America Great Again» for «political action committee services, namely, promoting public awareness of political issues and fundraising in the field of politics,» The Washington Post reported last year.
That account was questioned in 2013 and 2014 by investigators working for the Senate Intelligence Committee, which also issued a lengthy report in December that challenged the CIA's assertions on the effectiveness of torture.
Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions tests.
Fred Upton, a Republican congressman from Michigan and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, put his finger on the larger issue facing governments worldwide at a recent hearing: «Was Solyndra just one bad bet by an administration rushing to claim credit for the first loan guarantee, or is it the tip of the iceberg?»
«A number of participants in the [Federal Open Market Committee] did bring up the issue of tariffs,» Powell said.
According to his campaign, the «committee of 30 men and women will advise Governor Romney on the important economic issues affecting the people and small businesses of Michigan.»
Director Maria Elena Lagomasino, Chair of the Compensation Committee, met directly with one large shareholder and also considered specific summarized feedback derived from major institutional shareholders of Coke (KO) on the issue of executive compensation.
Last week Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made a well - publicized appearance at the Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) where he discussed a number of issues, including the possibility of having a national securities regulator.
That need for capable employees is part of the reason Facebook formed a political action committee to lobby Capitol Hill on the issue.
To address some of the issues irking consumers, a shareholder proposal this year requests that the «audit Committee conduct an independent review of the Company's internal controls related to residential mortgage loan modifications, foreclosures and securitizations, and report to shareholders.»
Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.
The government is working through the multiple issues before making a final decision and has encouraged employers and labour groups to not walk away from the committee's work, said Stephen Laskowski, president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance.
As a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Small Business Taxation Committee, he has appeared before the Senate and the Internal Revenue Service to testify on small - business issues.
«They made an estimate during the referendum campaign,» Davis told the committee, «but I think of of the issues that's arisen is that those forecasts don't appear to have exactly been very robust since then.»
Derek Scissors, a researcher on Asian economic issues at the Heritage Foundation, testified a few weeks ago before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Relations.
Last month, the European Parliament's legal affairs committee issued a report on the use and creation of robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
The president is the only one who can stop a sale, if the committee or any one member «recommends suspension or prohibition of the transaction,» according to guidelines issued by the Treasury Department in December 2008 after the department adopted its final rule a month earlier.
On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.
In response, lawmakers like Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, said that although Facebook's revelation was a good first step, «I'm disappointed it's taken 10 months of raising this issue before they've become much more transparent.»
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Neiman Marcus, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
I sat on a committee of Liberal backbenchers when the whole bank merger issue arose and when the banks themselves, the CEOs of the banks, wanted to expand into the U.S. and merge with a lot of the American banks, which would have caused us the same kind of turmoil that befell the Americans.
These changes will help alleviate the Canada - USA price gap that was the basis of the fine report issued by this committee.
When shares of Capital Stock are to be issued upon the exercise, grant or vesting of an Incentive Award, Google shall have the authority to withhold a number of such shares having a Fair Market Value at the date of the applicable taxable event determined by the Committee to be sufficient to satisfy the minimum federal, state and local withholding tax requirements, if any, attributable to such exercise, grant or vesting but not greater than the minimum withholding obligations, as determined by Google in its sole discretion.
We reached out to Facebook to ask whether its CEO will now agree to personally testify in front of the committee by May 24, per its request, but the company declined to provide a public statement on the issue.
He has also Chaired the Tax Section's Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee, which addresses issues relating to all aspects of criminal and civil tax controversy throughout the country and served on the Section's Committee on Appointments to the U.S. Tax Court as well as serving as Vice-Chair, IRS Liaison of the Section's Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee.
Other issues raised by the committee included why Facebook does not provide an overall control or opt - out for political advertising; why it does not offer a separate feed for ads but chooses to embed them into the Newsfeed; how and why it gathers data on non-users; the addictiveness engineered into its product; what it does about fake accounts; why it hasn't recruited more humans to help with the «challenges» of managing content on a platform that's scaled so large; and aspects of its approach to GDPR compliance.
I didn't get to push back on an issue that conservatives on the committee were, IMHO, way too overheated about: the Fed's payments of interest on excess reserves, or IOER.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing 44 senators as part of a rare joint committee hearing to address how his company handles user privacy and other issues.
Zuckerberg is facing 44 senators as part of a rare joint committee hearing to address how his company handles user privacy and other issues.
And immediately following the hearing the committee issued a press release repeating their call for Zuckerberg to testify, noting that Schroepfer had failed to provide adequate answers to as many of 40 of its questions.
«There is a risk building up in this regard, and on top of that, the tricky issue is that there are many triggers that could wake up this sleeping lion,» said David Daokui Li, a prominent Tsinghua University economist who is a member of the Chinese central bank's monetary policy committee.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R - Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement that he was «disappointed» that DOL issued its fiduciary rule, «despite widespread concern about the rule's complexity and the harm it may do to low - and middle - income investors.»
The Audit Committee has direct communication channels with the external auditors and Chief Financial Officer and senior finance staff and discusses and reviews issues with each of them on a regular basis.
The report included a recommendation that Canada ratify several international patent and trademark treaties, which came as a surprise (particularly to opposition members of parliament) since no witness had raised the issue before the committee.
Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee Terms of Reference The Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee is responsible for developing the Company's approach to governance issues, reviewing the Company's overall governance principles and recommending changes to those principles from time to time.
The Advisory Board acts as the sparring partner for the Steering Committee and the secretariat advising on a range of issues but most notably on the selection of opportunities for the report.
The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).
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