Sentences with phrase «commissioned by government departments»

In Britain, much of the research commissioned by government departments is already put out to tender and, under the directive will also be open to bids from European organisations.

Not exact matches

According to a new white paper commissioned by the Department of Defense, Beijing is encouraging Chinese companies with close government ties to invest in American start - ups specializing in critical technologies like artificial intelligence and robots to advance China's military capacity as well as its economy.

The State Department's report largely lines up with the analysis provided by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan government commission, lCommission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan government commission, lcommission, last month.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

More information is available at www.understandingsociety.org.uk Understanding Society has been commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is supported by a total of 11 Government departments and administrations.

At the end of an election, the marked postal voter lists are open for public inspection and also can be purchased by the Electoral Commission, candidates, elected representatives, government departments, police forces, registered political parties and local constituency parties.

A March 2013 report by the state Spending and Government Efficiency Commission said the two authorities could be grouped under the umbrella of the state Department of Transportation.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

The state Spending and Government Efficiency Commission is considering placing the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, located in the Catskills and managed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, under the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which runs the Adirondack resorts Whiteface and Gore and other facilities in and around Lake Placid.

But in May a secret review of the move commissioned by the department concluded that it would be cheaper to close the laboratory, sack half the staff and transfer the rest to AEA Technology, the government laboratory at Harwell, Oxfordshire.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

UKIERI is a multi-stakeholder partnership programme supported from the UK by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Council, Department for Employment and Learning, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department for Science and Technology, Ministry of Labour and Employment, University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education from India respectively.

* Sourced from Staff in Australia's Schools 2013, commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Education and conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

The film, scripted by Gander, appears to have been commissioned by the British government's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, and is presented as both an artwork and a commercial.

This magazine has so far been unable to obtain information about whether cladding systems failed large scale fire tests prior to the testing commissioned by the Department of Communities & Local Government (DCLG) this summer following the Grenfell disaster (see boxout).

Overall, more than 130 API standards are referenced in more than 430 citations by government agencies, including the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as BSEE.

The survey was commissioned by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility and funded by the federal government's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency's Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants program.

It considers the programmes and projects developed by the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and the initiatives of relevant Beijing Municipal Government Departments, Bureaus, Agencies and Commissions within the boundaries of the municipal territory.

In addition, Ms. Conroy has experience representing clients in connection with internal investigations as well as government and regulatory investigations, including investigations by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

One example is the pages created by government departments that house reports, policy papers and the gamut of related materials that are collected by the departments to keep the public informed, and which are often commissioned to inform the government of issues and concerns that may form part of policy.

We regularly represent institutions and individuals in investigations by the U.S. Congress, the Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and numerous other government agencies.

You would launch your complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) if the treatment you complain of was caused by the federal government or a federally - regulated business (including federal departments, agencies and crown corporations; chartered banks; airlines; television and radio stations; interprovincial communication and telephone companies; buses and railways that travel between provinces; first nations issues; and other federally regulated industries).

As a member of the firm's Government Investigations, Corporate Compliance + Criminal Defense Team, she represents businesses and individuals in civil and criminal investigations by local, state and federal authorities, such as state attorneys general, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and local law enforcement.

He has represented corporations and individuals under investigation by government authorities in the UK, including the Financial Conduct Authority and the Serious Fraud Office, and in the US, including the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, and in Europe and Asia.

By advocating before and working with government departments, independent tribunals and related organizations, including the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and Industry Canada, we have successfully advocated for the rights of Canadians to create positive outcomes for them with regard to contract terms, their receipt of accurate information, transparent and appropriate pricing, and the protection of people's privacy.

ACEDS awards the Certified eDiscovery Specialist (CEDS) credential, which is held by practitioners at Am Law 200 firms, government agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Justice Department, and some of the largest corporations in the world.

Massachusetts software company, PTC, Inc. («PTC») agreed to pay a $ 14.5 million criminal penalty to resolve a Department of Justice («DOJ») investigation into payments for recreational travel by Chinese government officials that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act «(«FCPA») and a civil settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC») by disgorging $ 11.8 million.

The CLIC project is commissioned by the Hong Kong government and funded by the Department of Justice of the government under which the law center is to develop, host and maintain the website.

Sean Prosser defends clients facing investigations and enforcement actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), including FBI and Grand Jury proceedings, and other government agencies.

analysing information sources produced by the European Commission, government departments, Hansard, non-government organisations (NGOs) and think tanks

Croakey readers will no doubt be aware of the sweeping changes to health, welfare and other services that have been proposed by the Federal Government's Commission of Audit, including an end to universal health care and a much tougher GP (and Emergency Departments) co-payment scheme than previously touted.

Study procedures were approved by local commissions on child protection in Bucharest, the Romanian ministry of health, and later an ethics committee including appointees from government and Bucharest University academic departments.

Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) to provide free, specialist support to people engaged with or affected by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The work was commissioned by the Hunter Institute of Mental Health as part of the Mindframe National Media Initiative, with funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

It will also be a step towards implementing those recommendations of the 1991 Royal Commission in Aboriginal Deaths in Custody («RCIADIC») report which call for a system of review and response by government departments and agencies.

Unpublished literature review commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health, 2013 as cited in Mackey, P, Boxall, A-M, Partel K (2014) «The relative effectiveness of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services compared with mainstream health service», Deeble Institute Evidence Brief, No 12.

[1] Information in this Appendix is a collation of extracts from responses provided by various Federal, State and Territory Government Departments in Correspondence to T Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, for the Native Title Report 2008.