Sentences with phrase «national standards authority»

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Specifically, it was to promote international financial stability by coordinating national financial authorities and international standard - setting bodies as they have worked toward developing strong regulatory, supervisory and other financial sector policies.

Missions assigned to leaders of local chapters include creating standards, managing local communities, and lobbying with city authorities and national regulators.

Boston University professor of law and Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Tamar Frankel, a national authority on fiduciary law, points out, «A uniform standard must be uniform in all aspects.

And, you will find they are all working hard to live up to God's standards, free of false teachings, having true love for their brothers around the world, living in peace even today, not willing to join anybody's army, nor join political parties but respectful of national governments and authorities, law abiding but God's kingdom interests come first, carrying out the world wide assignment God has given them.

USDA on March 13 announced its intention to withdraw the final regulation on May 13, contending that the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) gives the National Organic Program the authority to regulate only veterinary medications, not animal care, welfare or production standards.

The field trials were permitted by and followed the safety standards of the DA - Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for biotechnology research and development.

For Organic Agriculture, certification bodies can apply the voluntary international standards and / or the national mandatory standards and be accredited by the related «authority».

The project recently conducted a survey of school food authorities, or SFAs, * to identify their perceived needs in meeting the updated standards for the National School Lunch Program.

(8) to ensure policy coherence at national level by stimulating collaboration between health authorities, food regulators and food standard - setting bodies;

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has given a 24 - hour ultimatum to officials of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON),...

Without a national planning policy that specifically considers accessible and adaptable housing for disabled people, local authorities have no obligation to make sure they're delivering the right kind of housing and find it challenging to require developers to build to a higher standard.

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I agree perfectly with him and that is my second recommendation is for the National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Bank of Ghana and the Ghana Police Service to collaborate to up their game, improve and insist on standards to ensure only best practices are implemented in the financial intermediation arena.

The California statute's authority obviously does not extend to other states, but experts think the settlement will have a substantial national impact because it removes any moral, intellectual, or practical basis for believing that universities and PIs are entitled to provide their workers with a lower standard of safety than the standard that prevails in industry.

But Aldy says that a National Clean Energy Standard scheme «can be more cost - effective than exercising EPA authority to go after emissions.»

Some of the organic programmes and authorities who certify organic coconut oil include Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS), USDA National Organic Program (NOP), European Organic Regulations (EU 2092/91), Export Certificates for Japan (JAS Equivalent), Indian National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP), Quebec Organic Reference Standard (CAAQ), Bio Suisse Standards, IOFAM Basic Standards, ECOCERT.

«There's a mixed message here, particularly for those providers — such as Professor Craven's ACU, which has programs in various jurisdictions — that is, agreement that we need national standards and higher expectations, but there might be more than marginal differences between expectations of those different accrediting authorities.

What the central authorities decide science says will be infused in the national standards and tests and all must adhere to that vision if they wish to excel along these centralized criteria.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

The first presentation of National 5 (the replacement for Standard Grade, which is sat by 16 year olds and broadly benchmarked to upper level GCSE) took place in May with the results from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) reported in August.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

Let me now revisit a fifth potential asset, which is also the main reason that small - government conservatives should favor the Common Core or other high - quality «national standards»: This is the best path toward getting Uncle Sam and heavy - handed state governments to back off from micro-managing how schools are run and to return that authority to communities, individual schools, teachers, and parents.

There should be a National Exam Board run as a proper public authority without Non Executive Directors and all the other unnecessary trappings of private businesses that reduce standards and increase costs.

National curriculum allows teachers broad authority to shape lessons and use strategies they believe will help students meet standards

Through information and outreach, our goal is to generate policy that prohibits any state authority from adopting education programs, standards, or assessments that are national in nature, that infringe upon local district authority, or which may be used to coerce the development of local curricula or instruction.

These facts, along with the reality that the federal government is barred from developing a national curricula and doesn't have much ability to force states to stick to any promises to enact college - preparatory curricula standards, belies Malkin's argument that Common Core is merely an Obama administration effort to «usurp state authority» over education policy.

State Board Gets Authority to Pare Back 8th Grade Math Standards Gov. Jerry Brown evidently agrees that California's math standards should align more closely with the national Common Core standards.

Concerns have been raised about the State Board of Education exceeding its authority as it attempts to implement standards in Michigan schools that were created by a private, national organization, the National Governor's Assonational organization, the National Governor's AssoNational Governor's Association.

The curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities.

The poorest performing local authority was Knowsley on Merseyside, where 37.4 % of pupils met the required standard, compared to the national average of 57.1 %.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

However, most of these initiatives except for some national standards are non-binding on companies, as they do not have any legal authority to regulate companies (Report 9).

The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) establishes a national standard for ingredients, definitions, and nutrient levels, but they have no enforcement authority.

First is regulation that could strand assets in several ways: direct regulation on carbon led by authorities at the local, national, regional, or global level; indirect regulation through increased pollution controls, constraints on water usage, or policies targeting health concerns; and mandates on renewable energy adoption and efficiency standards.

The possible components of such an approach that would be relevant in the context of climate change include: a national renewable electricity standard; Federal financing for clean energy projects: energy efficiency measures (building, appliance, and industrial efficiency standards; home retrofit subsidies; and smart grid standards, subsidies, and dynamic pricing policies); and new Federal electricity ‑ transmission siting authority.

While each regulatory agency with legal authority promulgates and finalizes separate standards, the National Program harmonizes the three requirements.

We would also strongly encourage a common conversation among reporting authorities for national - level energy and emissions data regarding potential avenues for harmonization of standards to aid in the comparability of estimates from different data reporting sources.

It therefore proposes an international standard for CDM sustainability assessment - additional to national definitions - to counter weaknesses in the existing system of sustainability approval by Designated National Authorities in host conational definitions - to counter weaknesses in the existing system of sustainability approval by Designated National Authorities in host coNational Authorities in host countries.

«Vouched for by the National Association of Testing Authorities, AquaSafeStraw reports that it removes «99.9999 % [of] coliforms / faecal coliforms, e-coli, staphylococcus, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, standard plate count bacteria, pseudomonas aeruginosa (bacteria causing respiratory tract infections), pseudomonas diminuta, and serratia marcescents (another form of bacteria).»

The main purpose of the Directive is to lay down minimum standards for the definition and content of refugee status in order to guide the national authorities in the application of the Refugee Convention.

In its judgment of 26 February 2013, the CJEU responded to the first two questions in the affirmative, and clarified that Article 53 of the Charter only allows national authorities to apply higher standards of protection of fundamental rights where an EU legal act calls for national implementing measures, but not where, as in this case, the EU legal act harmonises the law between the Member States.

Nevertheless, he took the opportunity to elaborate on the PMOI standard of review and raised the question as to whether intelligence analyses and sources should be subject to the EU courts at all and «whether, in a system based largely on the confidence which the EU institutions place in the evaluation conducted by the competent national authorities of the seriousness of the evidence or clues to support a freezing measure, an intensive review of that evidence by the EU judicature is in fact appropriate» (Opinion para. 66).

29 That said, where a court of a Member State is called upon to review whether fundamental rights are complied with by a national provision or measure which, in a situation where action of the Member States is not entirely determined by European Union law, implements the latter for the purposes of Article 51 (1) of the Charter, national authorities and courts remain free to apply national standards of protection of fundamental rights, provided that the level of protection provided for by the Charter, as interpreted by the Court, and the primacy, unity and effectiveness of European Union law are not thereby compromised (see, in relation to the latter aspect, Case C - 399 / 11 Melloni [2013] ECR I - 0000, paragraph 60).

More controversially, Bombardier was ordered to cease applying or considering the standards and decisions of U.S. authorities in «national security» matters when dealing with applications for training under Canadian pilot's licenses.

It is true that immediately thereafter the ECJ makes reference to Melloni, by clarifying that «in that respect, the national authorities and courts remain free to apply national standards of protection of fundamental rights, provided that the level of protection provided for by the Charter, as interpreted by the Court, and the primacy, unity and effectiveness of EU law are not thereby compromised».

At the national level, Germany has cracked down on trading venues that lack permission to offer brokerage services and French authorities have said that online platforms for crypto - derivatives should face tough reporting and business conduct standards.

Germany has, on a national level, cracked down on trading venues that lack permission to offer brokerage services and French authorities have said that online platforms for crypto - derivatives should face tough reporting and business conduct standards.

Responsible for ensuring compliance with all local governing authority and national brand standards while serving as unit audit liaison

The NDAEB's mission is to assure individuals have met the current national baseline standard in the knowledge and skills required by Canadian provincial or territorial regulatory authorities for recognition as an intra-oral dental assistant.

Standard Grades (Scottish Gaelic: Ìre Choitcheann) were Scotland's educational qualifications for students aged around 14 to 16 years, which were replaced with Scottish Qualifications Authority's National exams as part of the major shake up of Scotland's education system as part of Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework overhaul.