Sentences with phrase «voluntary guidelines»

Some states and local jurisdictions have developed voluntary guidelines for schools.

The task force recommendation on converting voluntary guidelines on severe accident responses into mandatory rules is right.

This fact sheet and suggested voluntary guidelines provide tips to enable real estate agents to be sensitive to suspicious factors that may signal a money laundering effort.

It also provides voluntary guidelines for locating green schools, improving school environmental health and boosting efficient energy use.

Top government officials have said that they would implement only voluntary guidelines to control research and publication of potentially hazardous biological experiments.

The proposed voluntary guidelines would apply to communications, entertainment, information gathering and navigation devices or functions that are not required to safely operate the vehicle.

The federal government has voluntary guidelines for companies that want to test autonomous vehicles, leaving much of the regulation up to states.

In addition to providing voluntary guidelines on safety and sanitation, these measures are a powerful guide for lawmakers seeking to reassure the public that groomers are responsible and diligent professionals.

Further, financial services firms acting as underwriters have drafted and supported Green Bond Principles, which serve as voluntary guidelines encouraging increased transparency and disclosure.

In addition to abiding by strict food laws, the industry adheres to the following voluntary guidelines as part of the Industry Commitments3:

The IVA protocol is a set of voluntary guidelines which many insolvency practitioners (IPs) follow.

NHTSA also recently issued a set of voluntary guidelines for automakers to disable applications that allow drivers to manually access social media, surf the web or send text messages while on the road.

In response to concerns about increasing turbine - related bird deaths, FWS issued new voluntary guidelines in March 2012 for wind developers to minimize harm to birds and their habitats.

The nation's leading soft - drink producers have come up with voluntary guidelines that would restrict the sale of sodas in schools, but critics say the move will have almost no impact where the problem is worst — in high schools.

NAR has worked closely with FINCEN and Treasury to develop voluntary guidelines for real estate professionals to identify signs of money laundering.

Last month, however, the department released voluntary guidelines calling for stakeholders to disable video calling, social media and Web browsing features unless the vehicle is in park and to limit the time drivers must take their eyes off the road to 2 seconds at a time and 12 seconds total per task.

And remember the recent, landmark inter-agency effort to issue voluntary guidelines on the marketing of junk food to kids?

The wind farms in Friday's settlement came on line before the Obama administration drafted voluntary guidelines encouraging wind energy companies to work with the Fish and Wildlife Service to avoid locations that would impact wildlife.

The real estate industry has said it adheres to its own voluntary guidelines in performing background checks on purchasers.

Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.

Learn about the new CDC voluntary guidelines for management of anaphylaxis and food allergies;

Chao told a Detroit auto show forum that the revised voluntary guidelines would address not only self - driving automobiles but «barriers to the safe integration of autonomous technology for motor carriers, transit, trucks, infrastructure and other modes.»

The consensus among market watchers is that the CSA will issue a recommendation sometime in the spring of 2013 and it will likely start out by recommending voluntary guidelines to resolve some of the key issues — codified standards short of regulation.

The U.S. Transportation Department is considering further voluntary guidelines that it says would help foster innovation.

Holders of stock in companies which advertise on television or cable can call the attention of the officers and directors to the importance of adopting voluntary guidelines which would forbid sponsorship of programs with exploitative sex and gratuitous violence.

Our member companies adhere to voluntary guidelines when it comes to disclosing information about their products and the ingredients they contain.

And, perhaps most discouragingly, there was the White House's deafening silence when, back in 2012, the food industry crushed a set of purely voluntary guidelines to clean up the advertising of junk food to children.

Mr. Ghosio and Town Board member Jill Doherty suggested adding voluntary guidelines on the town's website that would encourage water conservation.

In 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced voluntary guidelines for companies on how to present the risks and benefits of a given product online, even with character restrictions.

Attempts by administrators to become familiar with existing voluntary guidelines and to implement them would be a strong beginning.

It provides recommendations on designing structures that minimize bird deaths and is especially helpful to those looking to apply voluntary guidelines or mandatory standards for buildings.

Days after receiving several campaign checks from the food lobby last May, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who is up for re-election this year, sent a letter raising concerns about the Federal Trade Commission's efforts to develop voluntary guidelines aimed at toning down the marketing of junk food to kids.

An in - depth investigation by Reuters describes the dirty details of the onslaught of Big Food lobbying in the wake of an effort by the federal government to improve voluntary guidelines on food marketing to kids.

U.S. real estate professionals should refer to NAR's voluntary guidelines concerning anti-money laundering.

In addition to abiding by strict food laws, the industry adheres to the following voluntary guidelines as part of the Industry Commitments3: • Energy Drinks are not made available in primary nor secondary schools • Marketing and advertising activities of energy drinks are not directed at children • No promotional activities are undertaken to encourage excessive consumption of energy drinks • Labels of energy drinks do not promote the mixing of energy drinks with any other beverage.

In 2011, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations released voluntary guidelines, urging investors to first think about the rights and needs of the people and communities where the land is located.

To date, educational items have included a fact sheet, suggested voluntary guidelines, and a FinCEN / NAR podcast.

High sodium consumption is associated with health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease, and the FDA has put out new voluntary guidelines for commercial food producers to cut down on sodium in their products.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that between 4 to 6 percent of children in the United States have one or more food allergies and that approximately 90 percent of schools have one or more students with a food allergy.4 The CDC developed voluntary guidelines to help staff, teachers and students create a healthy school environment for children with food allergies.

«The results of the Healthy Dining research are especially significant in light of the recent news that the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to issue voluntary guidelines to restaurants to lower sodium levels,» said Anita Jones - Mueller, MPH, Healthy Dining president and founder.

The ISLLC standards, originally developed through CCSSO and more recently known as the Educational Leadership Policy Standards, provide voluntary guidelines to states and districts regarding on - the - job expectations for principals and other school and district leaders.

Last week the committee released a survey done by a private advocacy group that found that many of the country's leading research labs do not follow voluntary guidelines for the humane treatment of animals issued in 1992 by the Indian National Science Academy.»

Morgan Stanley is also a founding signatory of the Green Bond Principles, which are voluntary guidelines for the development and issuance of green bonds, encouraging transparency, disclosure and integrity in the development of the green bond market.

To provide additional transparency to our process, DNV GL, an independent certification expert in renewables and energy efficiency, reviewed Morgan Stanley's internal green bond framework and its adherence to the Green Bond Principles, which are voluntary guidelines for the development and issuance of green bonds, encouraging transparency, disclosure and integrity in the development of the green bond market.

Automakers have raised numerous concerns about the guidance, including that it requires them to turn over significant data, could delay testing by months and lead to states making the voluntary guidelines mandatory.

It said the reduction across its yogurt portfolio is ahead of Public Health England's voluntary guidelines, which sought a 5 % lowering of total sugar by August 2017.

The establishment of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004 set up voluntary guidelines for «greener» palm oil production and has tried to encourage palm oil expansion in a «sustainable» way that doesn't ruin primary rain forests or violate the land rights of local people.

Under the voluntary guidelines, 100 percent juice, low - fat milk and bottled water are allowed in elementary and middle schools, with the addition of diet beverages and calorie - capped sports drinks, flavored waters and teas in high schools.