Sentences with phrase «recent years the commission»

In recent years the Commission has made greater efforts to tackle the problem of budget fraud, recognising the negative impact it has on the confidence of member states in the EU and the potential it has to undermine the process of enlargement.

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«We think this is one of the most egregious [conflicts of interest] we've seen in recent years, and it seems to be more widely practiced... To me, it sounds like a commission, and clients approach the adviser operating under the banner of fiduciary expecting those biases to not exist.»

Stephen Orlins, National Committee on US - China relations, discusses the report commissioned by his firm that says Chinese investment in the US has dropped in recent years.

Congress had ordered the commission in 1996 to review cross-ownership rules every four years but the FCC's most recent review, before Wednesday, was completed in 2006.

A recent study commissioned by Real Estate Webmasters says that last year, 53 per cent of real estate professionals spent less than $ 5,000 on their annual marketing efforts, including both online and offline avenues.

The move came after years of pressure from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and Exxon said in the accounts that «recent changes in the eastern gas market are increasing the depth of the market and make a transition to equity marketing more feasible».

The federal government has already taken a tough stance on defaulters in recent years, with debt collectors earning $ 1 billion in commissions for tracking down federal - student - loan defaulters in 2011, according to Bloomberg.

However, what is not in dispute is that religious freedom violations have hit record highs in recent years, as extensively documented in the latest reports from Open Doors, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, the US State Department, and Under Caesar's Sword, among others.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, for example, noted in its 2015 annual report the increase in reports of violence in India in recent years and observed that a «climate of impunity» against wrongdoers appeared to exist in a number of Indian states, «exacerbating the social and religious tensions among communities.»

A recent report from a blue - ribbon panel, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, suggests sweeping changes to reduce violence behind bars and improve health care so that when prisoners are released — 600,000 each year — they will be better citizens.

A second recent document, «Affirming Justice,» issued this year by the ecumenical Commission on Religion in Appalachia, likewise touches several of these themes and deserves further study and implementation.

A YouGov Poll commissioned by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) found that almost 70 per cent of Britons hadn't seen the inside of another faith's place of worship, and almost 90 per cent hadn't been inside a mosque, in recent years.

While the BCA has not yet made a submission to the Fair Work Commission's Annual Wage Review, which sets the country's minimum wage, Australia's peak employer body, the Australian Industry Group, wants the minimum wage increased 1.8 % this financial year, arguing inflation remains weak and that businesses are struggling with a recent rise in energy costs.

Next year both the European Union Environmental Commission and the U.S. National Toxicology Program will establish panels to examine the health effects of BPA based on recent findings indicating that a new assessment of this ubiquitous chemical is now needed.

In practice, in recent years, the European Parliament, with the cooperation of the Commission, has increased the level of transparency and accountability which applies when the EU negotiates trade agreements with third countries.

«I think in recent years there has been more involvement by public officials with respect to specific commission decisions than there has been in the past,» Gioa said when he resigned from the commission in 1987, according to the New York Times.

«The findings from DFID - commissioned research published in recent years indicates that there is weak evidence that market competition enhances the quality of schools in the private or public sectors.

An administration official told the Times Union on Monday that panel appointees of the executive and judicial branch indicated at their meeting last week that they have soured on the idea of a raise for two reasons: because only two lawmakers have formally stated their case to the commission this year, and because ethics reforms approved this year have been lambasted as not properly addressing recent corruption.

The city comptroller and a citizen's commission have issued recommendations to the Brown administration in recent years that have been largely ignored.

The questioning only got more pointed as the hearing went on, with multiple members of the commission questioning the few number of investigations the elections board had undertaken in recent years, and whether it had tried to use the powers it has and the staff it has to fully conduct whatever enforcement work it could.

According to recent filings with the State Election Enforcement Commission, independent spending this year has already reached $ 10.6 million — with two weeks still to go until the election.

He's been quiet on the issue in recent years, but says he'll provide $ 1 million to fund an «expert, non-partisan» preparatory commission that will «be authorized to recommend fixes to the current delegate selection process, which experts agree is flawed.»

In recent years expert commissions have been successfully used to chart the way ahead for further devolution, with the Calman Commission in Scotland leading to the Scotland Act 2012, and a series of commissions leading to the grant of further legislative powers to Wales.

She is therefore, confident that the commission will succeed because of the recent innovation and reforms have strengthened the commission to leave up to the task, that will further consolidate the country's 24 years of democratic and electoral success.

If a state commission tasked with educating New Yorkers about slavery has been active in recent years, it hasn't left much of a record of its accomplishments.

The project follows a recent report from the Electoral Commission which revealed that the police recorded 481 cases of alleged electoral fraud in the UK last year.

Cuomo, who had demanded that the 2012 lines be drawn by an independent commission, and be non partisan, has been warming in recent days to the idea of less partisan lines for this year, and a constitutional amendment for a more independent process next time.

The value of subsidies awarded at the state and local level grew from $ 7.9 billion for fiscal year 2011 to $ 8.6 billion for the most recent fiscal year that concluded last March, according to the Citizens Budget Commission.

Given how many legislators take state grants to run for office — more than 80 percent of sitting legislators have gotten Citizens» Election Program funding, says Michael J. Brandi, executive director of the State Elections Enforcement Commission — it's a wonder that CEP has been targeted for elimination by both major parties in recent years.

He has tried valiantly, if occasionally, to remain relevant in recent years, serving on blue - ribbon commissions and sharing his views on Twitter.

I also have very recent experience as chair of the Village of New Paltz Master Plan Review Task Force, as a member for almost four years of the Village Planning Board and as a member of the Ulster County Charter Review Commission.

Lopez resigned from the Assembly last month rather than face almost certain expulsion after a blockbuster report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics accused him of sexually harassing at least eight young female staffers in recent years.

As a result of the leak, the organisation was investigated by the Electoral Commission for a potential breach of election law — though it claimed the money wasn't included in the # 100,000 they have spent on Scottish elections in recent years.

Upon Mayor de Blasio's recent announcement of a new compensation commission, Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, told The New York Post that he supports elected officials getting raises since «eight years is a long time to go without one,» but pointed out that «the real question isn't whether they get raises, it's the size of the raises and whether the commission will look at limiting [elected officials»] outside income and banning «lulus.

But he also said that after more than 30 lawmakers have been accused of wrongdoing in recent years, and the recent failure to enact new laws, Albany legislators should not be shocked at Cuomo's creation of the commission.

When State Sen. George D. Maziarz racked up $ 140,000 in unitemized campaign expenses in recent years, the state's Moreland Commission and ultimately federal investigators started paying attention, according to sources close to the investigation.

Drug - resistant infections kill an estimated 700,000 people each year according to a recent report on this issue commissioned by the British government.

A recent study from a U.K. commission on antimicrobial resistance estimated that by 2050, antibiotic - resistant bacterial infections will kill 10 million people per year, if no new drugs are developed.

In recent years, the European Commission has taken a number of initiatives to redress the balance between harvesting activities and productivity of the stocks.

On 13 July of this year, following what has been perceived as a failure by the European Union to handle the recent refugee influx and related matters, the European Union Commission proposed a «Common European Asylum System,» focused on improving review of refugee applications.

In the past year the first results from the Breakthrough Listen project were published; FLAG, the world's most sensitive phased array feed receiver was commissioned; first data was released from the ammonia survey of the Gould Belt; two new molecules were detected in the ISM (HC5O and C7H); the first full season for observing with ARGUS and MUSTANG - 2 was completed; and the recent Terzan 5 results directly measured the gravitational potential of a globular cluster for the first time.

Though the commission's view of teachers and teaching has gained in popularity in recent years - witness Secretary of Education Rod Paige's recent call to dismantle the current system of training and certification - few of its recommendations have been widely embraced.

The West Virginia Human Rights Commission has initiated a formal investigation of racial problems in a school district that rights officials say has produced more complaints of racism than any other in the state in recent years.

The average tenure of principal supervisors in urban districts across the country is fairly short: about three years, according to a recent Wallace - commissioned report by the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS).

This was the challenge posed by Sean McComb, 2014 National Teacher of the Year, at a recent Education Commission of the States National Forum on Education Policy.

Since then, BMW has commissioned seventeen more art cars, starting with Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol and continuing in more recent years with David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, and Jeff Koons.

His firm produced its first IQS in 1987, and in recent years has come under some criticism that it weighs poorly designed interior features such as ACEN systems over defects that potentially can put a new vehicle out of commission.

Next, Mercer and Simpson took the stage to present a 2015 year in review and 2016 housing market outlook, punctuated by results from two TREB - commissioned Ipsos Reid surveys of recent and intending home buyers.

Monthly income for you and your co-borrower (most recent pay stub (s) with year - to - date income) includes bonuses, commissions and overtime income for the past two years (this information is on your tax return)

They've faded in popularity in recent years as brokerage commissions have becomecheaper.