Sentences with phrase «most national legislations»

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

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

Most recently, Llew Claasen, Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, pleaded to the National Conference of State Legislators, a bipartisan non-governmental organization that represents staff and members of American state legislatures, to reject any and all proposed legislation modeled after the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act.

The eventual legislation will most likely be a framework for developing guidelines for countries who want to adopt national screening mechanisms — it likely will not impose any binding requirements or limitations.

The new legislation triggers the most dramatic change in the School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs since they were first enacted.

Most doctors and allergists that I know are in favor of this legislation, as is the National Association of School Nurses.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

The most significant spending on the pro-gun side, however, has come from the National Shooting Sports Foundation — a Newtown - headquartered gun industry trade association that lobbied aggressively against the state gun control legislation.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

During his regular update on state legislation at the Richmond School Board's Jan. 22 meeting, Superintendent Brian Walmsley informed members of the 400 - plus - page report that has drawn national attention as the most comprehensive study of public schools to date.

As Congress is likely to continue efforts for healthcare reform legislation, MABE and the National School Boards Association (NSBA) will remain involved to urge protection of healthcare services for our most vulnerable students.

We also collaborate with other statewide and national organizations to provide the most current resources and information to help school librarians and others, and we advocate for effective legislation that supports high standards in librarianship and library media programs in schools throughout the state.

Pit bull terrier dogs and puppies are the most frequently and unjustly targeted by breed discriminatory legislation as inherently vicious, aggressive and dangerous, though this is not the case, as shown by research, studies and policies from the National Canine Research Council, the Center for Disease Control and the American Bar Association.

Your Member of the National Assembly speaks on behalf of provincial legislation, which is where your voice will make the most difference in enforcing animal cruelty laws.

For the most part, the legislation being proposed around the country is being promoted by a few very well - funded national animal - rights organizations and then embraced by local activists.

She explained that even in some of the most forward - looking environmental statutes in the United States, like the legislation creating the national parks, the language on safeguarding this asset «unimpaired» for future generations is in the preamble, and thus not «hard law.»

After gutting most of Canada's federal environmental legislation to expedite tar sands development and pipeline proposals at the behest of the oil industry, now the federal government is making it more difficult, and in some cases impossible, for members of the public to participate in the National Energy Board's (NEB) review of Enbridge's proposal to reverse its Line 9 pipeline through southern Ontario and Quebec.

Because the trade is largely unregulated and unmonitored, and finning often takes place beyond national and state jurisdiction, the most effective method to bring an end to this brutal practice is through legislation such as this.»

This brings the AG to the biggest and most tricky questions submitted for a preliminary ruling, combining the second question of the Swedish court and the first question of the Court of Appeal, concerning the conditions national legislation should respect when creating a general data retention obligation.

Only a few days after the Court of Justice of the European Union buried the hatchet in the so - called Taricco saga, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a decision that may inaugurate the most significant shift of its jurisprudence in European affairs since 1984, when the Constitutional Court fully accepted the principle of primacy of EU law and blessed the disapplication of national legislation incompatible with EU law.

Although a «top - down» approach to national legislation might be the most desirable and the most efficient means of delivery, it is clearly not an option that has found favour with governments.

Amongst the most controversial provisions of the legislation is Part 4 of the National Emergency Response Act, which provides for the immediate and later acquisition of five - year leases over certain Aboriginal townships in the Northern Territory for the purposes of the emergency response.

Early childhood education has long been on the back burner of economic priorities, but the proposed legislation, combined with the shifting national dialogue is showing that political leaders across the aisle are quickly viewing early learning as one of our nation's most promising tools for economic growth,» said Kris Perry, head of the national First Five Years Fund.

The core of the recent national water reforms is that water is part of Australia's «natural capital», where new regimes include, in most jurisdictions, the separation of water access entitlements from land titles, separating water delivery from regulation, implementing revised water management policy and legislation and environmental benefit.

Most provinces do not yet have franchise legislation in place, and given the importance of this business model to modern real estate, a consistent national approach to protecting consumers and franchisees would save resources and benefit all concerned.