Sentences with phrase «national government bodies»

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It is Europe's leading advocate of women - owned businesses as suppliers to global and national corporations and government bodies.
European Parliament made the same declaration earlier this year however the British government has been reluctant to make the same call, saying it is for other international bodies to make such a resolution and not them as an individual national government.
For the immediate future at least, national government contributions must provide the financial base, calculated as are contributions to the UN and other inter - government bodies.23.
Even the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group which several western governments have recognised as the legitimate representative body for Syria, includes the Muslim Brotherhood, whose recent treatment of the Christian minority under President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt is hardly encouraging.
We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.
It is agreed between the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation Ltd, the representative body for signatories to the Covenant, and Commonwealth, state and territory governments, and is endorsed by the National Environment Protection Council.
It is agreed between the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation Ltd, the representative body for signatories to the Covenant, and Commonwealth, state and territory governments, and endorsed by the National Environment Protection Council (NEPC).
At the national level, governments or national accreditation bodies accredit certification bodies operating in their country, if their country has Organic Agriculture legislation.
having the opportunity to influence policy with national governments and regulatory bodies across the UK and EU
Nick Rose, Secretary and National Coordinator for AFSA, is currently establishing a new body in Australia called Sustain: The Australian Food Network, which aims to do similar work to support and connect local government authorities and other food systems stakeholders across the country.
A Labor government could help the NHS by conferring a predetermined extent of national riches to subsidize it and setting up another free body to guarantee pastors give it the cash it needs, the shadow wellbeing secretary has said.
Alongside national leadership by governments, as described above, the breastfeeding support charities, relevant royal colleges and other similar professional bodies, campaigning organisations and interested individuals can both amplify calls for change and help to bring it about by collaborating.
«We will be looking for ways to pursue this issue further with national student bodies, national university bodies and public bodies - including the government - to seek whatever amendments to law and policy are essential to prevent this sort of interference with our members» legitimate activities.»
They will read this election as a positive indicator that the incoming government is willing and able to work with them on their own terms, offering stable contracts and a «hands - off» relationship between private firms and public bodies such as the National Oil Corporation of Kenya.
The lawmaker added that both bodies also warned the Federal Government against the proposed sale of national assets, especially the NLNG.
I am pleased to accept the Chancellor's invitation to establish the National Infrastructure Commission as an independent body able to advise Government and Parliament on priorities.
It must, however, be difficult for serving officers to understand how the most recent «significant» change, which included performance and role pay, supported by national and local Government and Chief Officers through the PNB, now appears to fail to find any support in those three bodies.
The National Executive Councils of the two bodies in a communiqué it jointly issued in Abuja also called for stakeholder engagement by the government to further discuss issues pertaining how to reinvest the gains from the price modulation mechanism.
But many MPs saw it as a case of a European body overriding the decision of the British government, especially as Qatada's continued presence in the UK was seen as a national security threat.
An Implant Register - In 1998, the then government accepted the recommendation of an independent review body on silicon breast implants to establish a national breast implant registry.
The Ekiti State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers has hinted that it would not honour the September 22, 2014 school resumption date as directed by the Federal Government until a contrary directive came from its national body.
Government, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, other members of the National and state assemblies as well as groups, organisations, corporate bodies and philanthropists to come to the aid of the ailing girl.
Speaking at the hearing conducted by the Senate's Joint Committee on INEC; and Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Saraki stated that the National Assembly had powers to legislate over the electoral body and other agencies of government.
The Ijaw leader who lamented that the federal government receives over 52 percent of the national revenue, observed that PANDEF was established to help resolve the crises in the region and vandalization of oil pipelines, adding that there is peace in the region today due to the body's efforts.
The plaintiffs, which claimed that they belong to a body known as Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), want the court to determine «whether INEC can deregister a party which has fulfilled and satisfied all requirements of registration simply because it fails to win a seat in the Presidential, Governorship, National or State Assembly without considering other elections like the Local Government Chairmanship and Councillors Elections.
«To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the Plaintiff [Dominic Ayine] brought this action in his name fronting for the immediate past Government to set at naught the popular wishes of the majority of the Ghanaian electorate who see the President's acceptance of the nomination of the 2nd Defendant [Martin Amidu] as Special Prosecutor, as being in the national interest to attack the canker of corruption in the body politic,» Martin Amidu indicated in his affidavit verification sighted by Citi News.
Australia's other main grant funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), invests its A$ 700 million yearly budget in fields that cover the government's health priorities, such as dementia, obesity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's health.
Anniston residents have up to seven times more PCBs in their bodies than the average for other Americans, Birnbaum said, citing data from the federal government's Anniston Community Health Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
And this year, according to Perry Plumart of the National Audubon Society, which has been lobbying states and the federal government to protect the crabs for several years, many migrating birds did not leave at their normal body weight — suggesting that fewer eggs were available.
Jackson, the author of the BEST report, issued a similar warning in March under the auspices of the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable, an unusual hybrid body staffed by the U.S. National Academies.
All ratifying states must now introduce national copyright exemptions that will allow government agencies and non-profit bodies to convert published works to accessible versions and distribute them globally to visually impaired people.
The National Research Council, one of The National Academies in Washington, D.C., (scientific advisory bodies for the federal government) charges that the 18 government bodies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tasked with assessing chemical safety, have failed to prove that the diminutive particles are not dangerous.
The experts were full or acting members of a government advisory body known as the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks that met in L'Aquila on 31 March 2009 to discuss the ongoing seismic «swarm» — a magnitude - 4.1 tremor had shook the town the day before.
It marked the first time a government advisory body, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), had recommended withholding information from a scientific paper, he added.
Just a few weeks later, however, the National Toxicology Program, a government - funded body charged with providing unbiased, scientifically sound evaluations of available evidence, issued its final report on the chemical.
Ovidiu Andronesi, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says he and many other members of one body, the National Research Council (NRC), learned they had been dismissed in an email received just before midnight on 31 January — almost at the same time as the government passed an emergency decree that decriminalized some corruption offences, sparking the widespread protests.
From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.
National and international businesses, organisations and government bodies use our information to make decisions across all organisational levels and to help develop their policies.
For many years we have worked with a range of organisations, including Sky Sports, Matalan, Bupa, Sainsbury's and Openreach, as well as government, National Governing Bodies of Sport, high profile athletes, schools and young people to improve the quality of PE and sport in schools.
These standards have been developed in conjunction with a range of key stakeholders including, the Department for Education and other government agencies, relevant professional bodies, unions, national associations, universities and practitioners.
He added:» The message to the Scottish government, to local authorities and national education bodies could not be clearer - you must take action, now, to lighten the load on our schools and our teachers.»
Brands as diverse as Adidas and Netflix, to the BBC as well as government bodies and charities such as Macmillan, all tweeted about National Fitness Day.
Ms Keates said the government's move to scrap the national negotiating body for school support staff had given schools a licence to misuse and abuse support staff.
I propose that a new National Governing Council on Education be established, composed of representatives of the states and of the federal government, to create the appropriate bodies to oversee these functions.
He also said he would be open to creating an independent national schools resourcing body, as recommended in the initial Gonski review, to make evidence - based decisions on school funding allocations, so long as the state and territory governments agreed to abide by its decisions.
«This government scrapped the national negotiating body, set up by the last Labour Government to work with professionals and to recognise the commitment and added value that school support stgovernment scrapped the national negotiating body, set up by the last Labour Government to work with professionals and to recognise the commitment and added value that school support stGovernment to work with professionals and to recognise the commitment and added value that school support staff bring.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, is the government body that rates cars based on crash safety protection.
When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty.
This means that the Kennel Club is recognised as an impartial and competent inspector by the government's sole national accreditation body.
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