Sentences with phrase «in national legislation»

Of these countries, only Peru and Indonesia make explicit attempts to define carbon rights in national legislation.

Human rights today are respected not only by the international law but also implemented in the national legislation.

All 27 E.U. member states were supposed to have «transposed» the directive in national legislation by 10 November 2012.

The group in its statement made available to the Nigeria Politics Online and signed by Executive Director Adetokunbo Mumuni, Said that, «Budget padding in fact is corruption, as it is implicit in corruption offences such as abuse of office, attempt to embezzle, divert, and misappropriate public funds, conspiracy to act corruptly, and illicit enrichment, which are recognized under the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party, and included in national legislation such as the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act and the Fiscal Responsibility Act.»

Kristian Dhal, the party leader, sent a message to «other moderate euroskeptic parties like the British Conservatives» to form an alliance to «steer back the EU» to focus on trade and energy and to be less interfering in national legislation.

In this perspective, the proposals of introducing an EU tax on financial transactions, the idea of including a «golden rule» of budgetary balance in national legislation, as well as the decision to support the creation of a permanent Eurozone Council, are arguably all steps paving the way to issuing of Eurobonds.

Much of Europe, including Italy, Ireland, France, the UK, and the Netherlands, has incorporated aspects of the Code in national legislation, according to the report.

He added that Nestle was committed to complying with the 1981 World Health Organisation (WHO) Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes, as implemented in national legislation worldwide, and followed the code or national laws — «whichever are stricter» in the 152 countries worldwide with high child mortality and malnutrition rates.

The provisions of the Code and WHA resolutions need to be enacted in national legislation and fully enforced.

To be really effective, the provisions of the Code need to be fully enforced by being enacted in national legislation.

You state in your letter that you «commend the work that IBFAN does in monitoring and seeking to strengthen the implementation of the Code in national legislation».

Not exact matches

As the House debated its legislation, starting in June, they had to do so without first fielding testimony from the U.S. government's leading transportation watchdog, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The president said he approved the legislation to fund the government through September for national security reasons, as it authorizes a major increase in military spending that he supports.

«Eliminating or nullifying the tax incentives for homeownership puts home values and middle - class homeowners at risk, and from a cursory examination, this legislation appears to do just that,» William E. Brown, president of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), said in a statement.

Experts in the European Commission also said the only exceptions to the net neutrality rules would be for content covered under national legislation, content that has to be filtered out to protect network security and integrity (such as malware), and cases where Internet traffic must be shaped to minimize temporary or exceptional network congestion.

The National Federation of Independent Business, known as NFIB, was one of the lead plaintiffs in the original legal challenge to the health care reform legislation.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

Scotland's governing Scottish National Party has threatened to try to block the progress of key legislation that will sever legal ties with the EU unless the government does more to account for Scotland's interests in Brexit.

Steiner rattled off ideas like national legislation requiring a certain amount of recycled content to be used in packaging of new products, or removing glass from the recycling stream because it often breaks during collection and mucks up the rest of the load.

Walden took interest in proposing legislation to ban the option because he thought the idea of minting a platinum coin to work around the debt ceiling was a particularly absurd idea that exemplified «the problem of people in Washington not understanding the reality» of the national debt.

The decision to introduce legislation to legalize cannabis, which the government hopes to have in place in July, has placed pressure on the government to establish national rules for workplace drug testing.

«This is unethical and immoral legislation that makes women guinea pigs in an unmonitored, inappropriate experiment,» said Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation.

In Tallahassee, the National Rifle Association, one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislatioIn Tallahassee, the National Rifle Association, one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislatioin the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislation.

But unlike Europeans, Canadians have not had national governments willing to reflect their views in legislation.

The president also says he is open to supporting legislation that would make small improvements in the national gun background check system.

As the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee prepares to consider new legislation that would open a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy development, long - time players in the debate over Alaskan energy production are explaining why now is the time to unlock critical resources in the region.

In an attempt to help prevent future school shootings, legislation was introduced Wednesday to expand the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center.

National animal nonprofits and lobbying groups — which often are at odds with one another on issues and legislation — struck a similar chord in saying the purchase of auction dogs at high prices was something other than a form of rescue.

Pending federal legislation, spurred in part by the abuse crisis at USA Gymnastics, would require anyone working under the jurisdiction of a national governing body to report suspected abuse or face a fine and possible imprisonment.

In its paper, the BPP Group raises a number of concerns regarding the hard regulatory approach suggested by the Directive proposals and calls upon the European Commission, Parliament and national governments to support the proportionate, principles - based approach to service supplier oversight overwhelmingly supported by shareholders that is embodied in the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.&raquIn its paper, the BPP Group raises a number of concerns regarding the hard regulatory approach suggested by the Directive proposals and calls upon the European Commission, Parliament and national governments to support the proportionate, principles - based approach to service supplier oversight overwhelmingly supported by shareholders that is embodied in the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.&raquin the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.&raquin the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.»

The measures come on top of proposed legislation in Congress to expand the authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews foreign deals for national security concerns.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselveIn recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselvein black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today announced a national media campaign in opposition to the «Super Chapter 9» bankruptcy legislation for Puerto Rico, which was recently released by the Committee on Natural Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives.

But, as the discussion above suggests, if Bill 12 were applied in such a way as to change the rules with respect to the batching of product on the TransMountain pipeline it would be necessary to examine very carefully if this created one of the two forms of prohibited conflict between provincial legislation and the terms of the National Energy Board Act (see the common carrier rules of s 71 (1)-RRB-, and any applicable Board decisions relating to the prorating of capacity on the TransMountain pipeline.

But if anything, her comments anticipate not the distant future but the shape of the Nixon administration and the national backlash against civil rights legislation and the sexual revolution — events close at hand in 1970.

They tried to pass some legislation in the national assembly but as you know Korean workers struggled against the bill and it was finally postponed to year 2000.

That is a good use of legislation, in my book, and it may open a bit of public bandwidth to discuss seemingly forgotten topics that affect us all, like our 20 trillion dollar national debt.

«Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of «supporting infanticide,» and the National Right to Life Committee says he's conducted a «four - year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation to protect born - alive survivors of abortions.»

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

But Judah was afforded no such experience of national survival and constitutional maturing of the principle so boldly affirmed in the legislation of Josiah's reign.

In many countries the PTT has been the main network operator and in most national legislations the PTT can not be held liablIn many countries the PTT has been the main network operator and in most national legislations the PTT can not be held liablin most national legislations the PTT can not be held liable.

Before World War I and the restrictive legislation of the 1920s, passports were not usually required in peacetime for those crossing national borders.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national governmenIn the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national governmenin the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

Even in this country all national or state legislation designed to protect human health, the rights of workers, family farmers, or the natural environment will be subject to being overruled as in restraint of trade.

In 1959 it was suggested that «there remain three principles of democratic procedure to which free church polity must give serious thought» — that is, free discussion, no exclusion from national office except on the basis of creed or ability, and legislation and policy - making executed in accord with methods of representative government (Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162In 1959 it was suggested that «there remain three principles of democratic procedure to which free church polity must give serious thought» — that is, free discussion, no exclusion from national office except on the basis of creed or ability, and legislation and policy - making executed in accord with methods of representative government (Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162in accord with methods of representative government (Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162).

Washington (CNN)-- As President Barack Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, demonstrators outside reignited a simmering debate over the role the breakfast's organizers in an attempt to pass anti-gay legislation in Uganda.

Gay rights activists urged President Obama not to attend this year's National Prayer Breakfast accusing the Fellowship Foundation - which hosts the annual event - of promoting anti-gay legislation in Uganda.

We welcome in particular the introduction of EPR general minimum requirements in legislation, which will increase transparency, cost - efficiency, accountability, and enforcement of EPR obligations at national level.

The Vermont Right to Know GMOs coalition is working with other states to pass similar legislation in addition to advocating for a national mandatory labeling standard that would comply with Vermont's law.

introducing legislation to establish an «effects test» in national competition law to protect small businesses from the impact of anti-competitive conduct by large, counterparty businesses