Sentences with phrase «reports by government authorities»

The findings mark the first public reports by government authorities into what caused some of the dozens of blazes that erupted Oct. 8 and became the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history.

Not exact matches

Sarkozy's ban came on the heels of a report by the French government's scientific authority on GMOs.

Once the report has been received by the competent authorities, the Indian Government alongside with the Reserve Bank of India, also known as RBI, have responded and said that they will investigate the issue and do their best in order to ensure that the bitcoin payment method is not used for illegal purposes.

Governments can build on this culture of high ethical standards by creating an incentive for companies to report wrongful behaviour to the authorities.

However, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored the situation reports that flight operations went on smoothly at both the international and domestic wings of the airport Also, staffers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), were at their respective offices and duty posts, as directed by the government.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's latest report is a reminder of how much of New York's government is «off the books» — handled by state and local authorities, with far less...

This month, the federal government announced its intention to slash $ 35 million in outlays from the New York City Housing Authority, a development first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Warsaw, Poland (AP)-- Poland's senate leader has appealed to Poles living abroad to report to the authorities any statements deemed to hurt «Poland's good name» — part of a wider campaign by the government to defend the country against what it calls historical untruth and slander.

Meantime, military authorities in Nigeria have debunked reports in foreign media that Nigerian militant group with sympathy to Biafra and IPOB hijacked a ship and are demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government before the ship will be released.

In 2009, the Conservatives published a report called «Reversing the rise of the surveillance state», which promised «fewer giant central government databases», «fewer personal details, accurately recorded and held only by specific authorities on a need - to - know basis» and «greater checks on data - sharing».

A March 2013 report by the state Spending and Government Efficiency Commission said the two authorities could be grouped under the umbrella of the state Department of Transportation.

In November, Investigative Post reported how the Erie County Water Authority had cut corners in a program required by the federal government to test tap water for lead.

In a report out this week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a nonprofit regulatory authority charged by the federal government with oversight of reliability in U.S. power systems, found that it still lacked adequate analysis to know whether the plan's targets are achievable.

The report argues that within the core pine wood areas of Deeside, Strath Spey and Beauly there should be a major commitment by the government's Forestry Authority, the Forestry Enterprise quango, the Scottish Natural Heritage and the local authorities to restore and substantially expand native pine wood.

HNC reserves the right to disclose personal information about you, including your e-mail address, for reporting to government authorities, to parties in relevant legal proceedings as authorized by the presiding court or tribunal and otherwise to the extent required or explicitly authorized by applicable law.

The Labor Government said it will work with the Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority (ACARA), along with the states and territories, to ensure that computer programming, or coding, will be taught from the start of schooling in every school by a teacher that has had the appropriate training.

Contemporary research shows 75 per cent of the fastest growing occupations will require science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to a 2014 report by the federal government statutory authority, the Office of the Chief Scientist.

A recent report by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee on Public Parks cited that 92 per cent of local authority parks have experienced budget reductions in the past three years and 95 per cent of parks managers expect further reductions in the next three years.

The education issues paper also hints that the Federal Government could reduce its role in the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) believing it had played its part through establishing a national curriculum and creating NAPLAN, and that these could be maintained by the states and territories.

Mr Lewis said the report highlighted the priorities that needed to be addressed by the Welsh government, schools and local education authorities.

That is to say, an extremely small portion of sexual misconduct acts by school personnel that are known by school personnel are ever reported to the proper government authorities.

The education select committee published a report about the role of RSCs back in January 2016, suggesting that the responsibilities of RSCs, local authorities and Ofsted be clarified after the commissioners were accused of being a «shadow Ofsted» by a former government adviser.

The report must include a recommendation as to which governance structure best serves the objectives of TIFIA - continuing the program under the authority of the Secretary, establishing a government corporation or a government - sponsored enterprise (GSE) to administer the program, or phasing out the program and relying on the capital markets to fund the types of infrastructure investments assisted by TIFIA without Federal participation.

Each TIFIA Report to Congress must recommend the governance structure that best serves the objectives of TIFIA by either (i) continuing the program under the authority of the Secretary, (ii) establishing a government corporation or a GSE to administer the program, or (iii) phasing out the program and relying on the capital markets to fund the types of infrastructure investments assisted by TIFIA without Federal participation.

The report should summarize the program's financial performance to date, and recommend whether the objectives of the program would be best met by continuing the program under the authority of the Secretary, establishing a Government corporation of Government - sponsored enterprise to administer the program, or by relying upon the capital markets to fund projects of regional and national significance without Federal participation.

From time to time, action by government authorities influences the tax reporting basis of certain investment securities, which has an impact on Putnam funds and on your tax filing requirements.

Finding funds for new acquisitions in the age of austerity is a problem — a report published earlier this year by Arts Council England and the New Local Government Network showed that local authority investment in arts and culture facilities has fallen # 236m since 2010.

For example, the paired statements «Environmentalists assert that the reports by the panel are watered down by a requirement that sponsoring governments approve its summaries line by line» and «Some experts fret that the organization, charged with assessing fast - evolving science, has failed to keep pace with an explosion of climate research» seem too easy, and I worry that such beliefs and accusations become propagated as facts without some serious evaluation as to their authority.

«Sen. Kent Conrad, Democrat from North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is expected to make a recommendation later this year on whether the federal government should drop the gas tax and implement the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tax... By requiring cars to be equipped with odometer spyware that will report to authorities how many miles are driven, government is looking to toss out the old gas tax for a new miles - driven fee... «The Left is always pushing for more and more regulations, and more and more taxes.

Their research is featured prominently in the UNâ $ ™ s Assessment Reports (AR1, AR2, AR3 â $ «and AR4 is the latest) issued by the IPCC that are being used as justification for carbon trading schemes, higher energy taxes, tremendous new government regulation trillions of dollars in public investment and even plans for a new world government entity with the authority to supersede the sovereignty of the United States.

Three massive agri - business projects in the Peruvian Amazon, all related to the same group of companies identified in EIA's 2015 report Deforestation by Definition, have been ordered to halt operations by government authorities in the country.

By endorsing the IPCC reports, governments acknowledge the authority of their scientific content.

The 2016 Interim Legal Services Market Study Report of the Competition and Markets Authority asked [4] «Are there any measures of quality that can readily be collected by regulators or government... on observable trends in quality of legal services?».

In its report published today on the Government's proposed legislation setting up a Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) the House of Commons Select Committee has backed a number of recommendations made by George Peretz QC (who gave written and oral evidence to the Committee's inquiry).

(i) A public health authority that is authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; or, at the direction of a public health authority, to an official of a foreign government agency that is acting in collaboration with a public health authority;

The Government takes that report, adopts its recommendations, and suddenly, the Legal Services Authority is created, where the government oversees the legal profession, 75 % of legal services are opened to delivery by non-lawyers, and non-lawyers are permitted to «own» lawfirms, what are now referred to as «Alternative Busienss Structures&raqGovernment takes that report, adopts its recommendations, and suddenly, the Legal Services Authority is created, where the government oversees the legal profession, 75 % of legal services are opened to delivery by non-lawyers, and non-lawyers are permitted to «own» lawfirms, what are now referred to as «Alternative Busienss Structures&raqgovernment oversees the legal profession, 75 % of legal services are opened to delivery by non-lawyers, and non-lawyers are permitted to «own» lawfirms, what are now referred to as «Alternative Busienss Structures» (ABS).

In December 2014 an authoritative report from the US Senate chaired by Senator Dianne Feinstein found compelling evidence of illegal tortures carried out on the instructions and authority of government officials, including some at the very highest level.

Labour peer Lord Peter Hain has written to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to request an investigation into a report produced by Hogan Lovells concerning a South African government money laundering scandal.

Jeevan Akshay, the immediate annuity plan from Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) that provides guaranteed return of 6.75 - 7 % has been asked by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to review the return as the yield on 10 - year government bond has fallen to 6.5 %, reports TOI.

The organizations want to ensure that it's possible to collect evidence by court order, not expand government's surveillance authority, according to a report on the summit.

As it was reported South Korean Authorities confirmed cryptocurrency insider trading activity carried out by government officials.

«The Local Government Ombudsman's report shines a light on an area of child welfare which for too long has been neglected by Government and gets the Cinderella treatment by local authorities.