There are a number of
substantive changes to the Rules, as can be seen below.
(2) The authority under subsection (1) does not include the authority to make
substantive changes to the rules.
Not exact matches
With the FIA decision the Department made a
substantive and irrevocable
change to the proposed
Rule without any impact analysis or due process for comment on that
change.
I certainly favor significantly increasing the ownership threshold, but I also believe that the
rule needs
substantive changes to prevent activists from meddling in matters that are appropriately the responsibility of the board and management rather than shareholders.
Indeed,
to the extent that the Obama administration has been able
to make
substantive progress on climate
change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less politically visible approaches like fuel efficiency standards or EPA
rules, rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions like an economy - wide price on carbon.25
More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated
to climate
change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private,
substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant
rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention
to the intersection of climate
change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.
For example,
to determine what constitutes a new v. old
rule of U.S. Senate procedure, or
to determine which statute is newer or older for purposes of determining which statute of two that conflict should be given effect when there was a cosmetic recodification of the section numbers of one of the titles but not the other without
changing the
substantive meaning of the recodified statute.
One of the more
substantive changes is
to the definition of «Document» in
Rule 222.
This
rule did not impose any new
substantive obligations but did make certain technical, conforming, and stylistic
changes to reflect the transfer of authority and certain other
changes made by the Dodd - Frank Act.