Sentences with phrase «lower house of»

Berlin — The German lower house of Parliament recently voted to abolish laws from the Nazi era that prohibited retailers from using discounts and promotional offers to gain business.

The bill has not been considered by the lower house of Parliament, and consequently has not been introduced.

Regulation Mexico's bill to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges has been approved by the country's lower house of Congress and is now awaiting the signature of President Enrique Pena Nieto to become law.

According to Reuters, the bill cleared the Mexican Senate on Dec. 5, setting the stage for its consideration and potential passage in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the legislature.

The bill was approved by the lower house of Congress and will effectively regulate the growing cryptocurrency market including ICOs and companies with technology businesses.

Mexico's bill to regulate the fintech sector, which includes rules on crowdfunding and cryptocurrency firms, has been approved by the country's lower house of Congress, Reuters reported.

Mexico's bill to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges has been approved by the country's lower house of Congress and is now awaiting the signature of President Enrique Pena...

He hopes to give the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, information about this in the next few weeks, AD reports.

The Parliamentary Blockchain Forum will be held on 4th October at the Maison de la chimie, a conference site located near the French National Assembly, the lower house of the country's legislature.

A bill has recently been approved by the Mexican lower house of Congress for bringing upon a regulatory overdrive in the country's fintech sector.

On 6 December 2017, the lower house of the Italian parliament debated concerns over fully autonomous weapons systems.

We get a clear picture by looking at what Russia's government did to its resistance during the country's 2011 - 2012 elections for president and Duma (its lower house of parliament).

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday introduced four bills on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the lower house of parliament, paving the way for the government to launch the landmark tax reform.

Brexit has moved one step closer, as Britain's lower house of Parliament has passed legislation to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to officially begin the process.

On June 25, 2008, Spain's environmental committee of the lower house of parliament passed a resolution to support the Great Ape Project, following an earlier resolution in the Balearic Isles, but was never enacted.

It involves challenges to remaps for the state's congressional districts and the lower house of its legislature.

Wind farms must be built at a distance from housing of at least 10 times the height of the turbine, or about 1.5 to 2 km, under the law which was adopted by the lower house of parliament on Friday.

Daria Zhuk, 27, came forward in February — one of several female journalists to level claims of harassment against Leonid Slutsky, head of the powerful foreign affairs committee in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.

India has a British - style parliamentary system in which the leader of the political party with the highest share of the vote in the lower house of parliament is appointed as prime minister by the president (the President of India is a mostly ceremonial role; the prime minister is the head of government).

On Friday the lower house of Russian Duma accepted the third and final edition of the law to decriminalize domestic violence.

The measure passed 101 - 1 by the subservient lower house of parliament and is intended to help halt human trafficking in the ex-Soviet nation.

Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved controversial reforms to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on 18 September.

After 16 hours of debate last week, Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, voted to standardise Article 218, the nation's abortion law.

Then, the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, approved stringent regulations monitoring the work of bioengineers in the pharmaceuticals and agriculture industries.

Yesterday, the conservative opposition in the lower house of the Spanish Parliament asked for both Barbacid and Garmendia to appear at hearings to discuss the situation.

In April of this year the lower house of the Tennessee legislature voted to repeal the statute; in May the Senate agreed and the governor approved the repeal.»

In late 1992, for example, the lower house of the German parliament had to decamp from its new building in Bonn after only one day because MPs could not hear clearly what was being said in debates.

As in most countries with a British heritage, the speaker presides over the lower house of the legislature.

In the Netherlands, elections for the House of Representatives (the lower house of the States - General, the national parliament) are conducted on an at - large basis by proportional representation from party lists.

The developers wanted Silver — who wielded immense power in the lower house of the State Legislature — to extend a law giving tax breaks to developers of apartment buildings that include affordable units alongside luxury units.

The relationship between Cuomo and the Democratic Assembly is close to toxic, as symbolized by the lower house of the legislature holding up the naming of the new Tappan Zee Bridge after Mario Cuomo last spring.

From wikipedia: «The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature.

The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature.

The Democratic wave in Virginia also swept away a huge GOP advantage in the House of Delegates, the lower house of the General Assembly, where Republicans held 66 of 100 seats.

Women there have won 63.8 percent of seats in the lower house of parliament.)

She went into this election with a 20 - point lead in most polls and a working majority of just 17 seats in the 650 - seat House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament.

And given how little appetite there is for change in the lower House of Commons, any meaningful change is unlikely too.

In 2012, though not a single Libertarian candidate won election to either upper or lower house of any state legislature, two came quite close.

On March 23, the lower house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill that reduces the number of members a party must have, in order to be recognized.

The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, the New York State Senate being the upper house.

The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi State Legislature.

In the Lok Sabha (the Lower House of the Indian Parliament), 76 of the 543 members elected in 2009 had been charged with serious criminal offences such as murder, rape and dacoity.

The final tally is now in, and it sets the bar high for future races for the lower house of the State Legislature.

The historical defeat of Dilma Rousseff on 17 April, when more than two - thirds of Brazil's lower House of Congress voted to oust the country's first female president, is not the end of the debate about whether she committed a crime that would constitutionally justify her impeachment.

«The rape and torture of children were downplayed or «managed» to uphold, instead, the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation,» he told Ireland's lower house of parliament, or Dail, as it debated a motion on the report.

On June 23, the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, voted 300 to 8to pass legislation that would supplant much of the country «sfreedom - of - conscience law.

The legislation, which still needs upper house approval before becoming legal, was passed by the German lower house of Parliament.

Germany insists on Greek lawmakers taking the first step by passing economic policy changes before the German lower house of parliament will agree to a revised aid deal.

The government's latest proposal to reform the country's pension system will be presented to its supporters in the lower house of Congress on April 18, Carlos Marun, president of the pension reform commission in the lower house, said on April 17.

Elena Sidorenko, who heads an interdepartmental working group on cryptocurrencies at the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature, said it is widely known that Chinese traders use cryptocurrencies to send their revenues abroad.