Sentences with phrase «which enforces regulations»

Levinson's points include that no sanction is specified and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which enforces the regulations, has constrained powers due to budget cuts.

Our waters and reefs are protected by the Bonaire Marine Park, which enforces regulations like required tags and a park orientation session before diving.

Not exact matches

To enforce organic regulations, the USDA lets farmers hire and pay their own inspectors to certify them as «organic,» which saves the agency money.

Regulations are among the the stocks - in - trade of government — they are the tools through which the Environmental Protection Agency implements anti-pollution laws, the Interior Department enforces land - use provisions and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau restricts payday lenders.

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is in charge of enforcing the policies and regulations, which serve as a security measure for conducting any financial activity within the U.S. borders.

What are some of the complexities of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which will be enforced beginning May 25?

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

This band must have been from the Temple guard, an entirely Jewish constabulary force which protected the Temple and enforced its ritualistic regulations and functioned under orders from the high priest.

In our introspective examination, the party has it as an obligation to put premium on giving convincing ventilation to the regulations and rules which direct the course of our individual actions so as to put and enforce trust and confidence in and amongst all players.

Next is a piece which suggested that our embarrassment over pornography has led to politicians being able to churn out ignorant regulation which almost impossible to enforce.

The comptroller was especially critical of ticket blitzes, which he said are sometimes used for regulations that have gone enforced for long periods of time or are poorly understood.

Elections are run at the state level, so a state - gerrymandered election could alter that balance of power in the state legislature, which would effect things like voter - suppression measures, enactment and enforcement of campaign finance regulations, and the ability of elections to be monitored and for rules to be enforced by non-partisan (or partisan) entities.

Any move to distill the regulations, which are due to be enforced in England and Wales this spring, will be fiercely contested by gay rights campaigners.

To develop and enforce tighter regulations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act, should establish an ethics committee specifically for biomedical research on chimps.

Although the energy industry must follow EPA or Interior rules, the president has sway over how strictly they are enforced — which means Trump could decide to weakly implement some of the Obama regulations.

The bill has been stalled by political wrangling over a proposed amendment by Senator Mitch McConnell (R — KY) which would eliminate funding for enforcing new EPA climate regulations unless the secretary of energy certified that they would not cost jobs or raise the price of electricity.

State oil and gas regulators pushed back against the regulations, too, saying that enforcing the rules for Class 2 wells — which handle the vast majority of injected waste by volume — would be expensive and difficult.

Methadone treatment isn't just a metaphor here, but a very real medical regime with rules, regulations, lockboxes, and psych evals, all of which are administered and enforced by the faceless social workers who hover around the edges of the rigid frame, abstracted as benignly indifferent voices or anonymous limbs.

These rules are incorporated in a «Directive» which, converted into legal obligations in the UK through Regulations, place particular duties and responsibilities on all public spending contracting authorities which the UK courts can enforce.

If you are so inclined, you may also want to read the recent Washington Post (10.24.16) article, entitled «The big problem with the Obama administration's new teacher - education regulations», in which the chair of Connecticut College's Education Department co-wrote that the «academy provisions» which were incorporated into ESSA (after initially being developed by the two charter lobbyist organizations New Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.»

The Departmental Office of Civil Rights (DOCR) enforces civil rights laws and regulations, which prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion and age in employment and the provision of government services.

These agencies are subject to the regulations set forth in the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), which is administered and enforced by the Federal Trade Commission.

The Education Department would no longer be able to enforce the «gainful employment regulation,» which looks at the debt - to - income ratio of students post-graduation when considering how much federal student aid for - profit education institutions should receive.

The new regulations, which included demands that banks make more of an effort to be sure borrowers could repay the loans, combined with increased efforts to enforce the rules, made banks reconsider mortgage lending.

Recognizing that under USDA regulations an average Chihuahua could spend its life in a two - foot wide by two - foot long cage, and that exercise time would be virtually impossible to enforce, the new law empowers the governing board to establish rules which increase cage size to make dogs more comfortable in their primary enclosure.

As indicated previously, States and local governments may create and enforce their own laws and regulations to protect animals, which may exceed the AWA standards.

Conservation Actions Underway Following the cat eradication programme, Ascension is maintained free of feral cats by enforcing a strict sterilisation regulation for all domestic cats, and by severely limiting the number of domestic cats that can be brought to the island, which are regulated through a cat registration database.

The North Carolina Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services («Dept.»), which regulates shelters, is supposed to enforce regulations for the use of carbon monoxide gas chambers.

For Dray it is the hidden protocols of security and safety standards enforced by UK manufacturing and building regulations that provide a matrix within which to make work.

While the tritium spikes don't represent a health threat, I agree with Lochbaum on the need for significant changes in oversight, which he characterizes this way below: «The N.R.C. should enforce its regulations or change its name to N.C.»

In the colloquy, Chairman Simpson states: «EPA's GHG regulations need to be stopped in their tracks, and that's what section 1746 does — it provides a timeout for the balance of the fiscal year, during which time EPA will be prohibited from acting on them or enforcing them.»

Laissez - faire (Listeni / ˌlɛseɪˈfɛər - /, French: [lɛsefɛʁ](listen)-RRB- is an economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies, and enforced monopolies, with only enough government regulations sufficient to protect property rights against theft and aggression.

«North Dakota regulations enforce conservatively strict non-psychoactive THC limits similar to Canadian regulations, which ensure there is no drug value in any part of the plant that could be diverted into the interstate market for recreational marijuana.»

Prohibition — which you promote — is command and control regulation with police action enforcing the will of the state; privatization — which is the only answer to the AGU findings — devolves power from the state's command and control structure (in this case the EPA and judiciary) to the individual decisions of how to spend their money and how much to demand for their services by hardworking American families.

The report finds that few regulations exist to control this problem, and that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fails to enforce those that do exist, which only cover old cathode ray tube TVs and monitors.

In many cases, the regulation of common carriers falls under state and federal law, which enforces a duty of care that buses and other common carriers must follow, such as:

The deVere CEO concludes: «Robust regulation that is devised, implemented and enforced by international financial regulators will mean further protection for the growing number of people using cryptocurrencies, the less likely it will be that criminals will use these digital payment methods, the less potential risk there will be for the disruption of global financial stability, and the more potential opportunities there will be for higher economic growth and activity in those countries which introduce it.»

Section 172 is the mechanism through which the regulations are enforced and inquiries conducted into matters relating to the mobility of persons with disabilities.

The Recast Brussels Regulation in particular creates an enforcement procedure which is less time consuming, less costly and enables parties to enforce judgments across the EU regardless of the origin member state in which the dispute arose.

Legal services regulation, which is largely devised and enforced by lawyers, is tight in Canada compared to many countries.

The Commission proposed an amendment to the Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation which will give more powers to national authorities to better enforce consumer rights.

[Blogger's Note: Today is the last day to submit comments to the Justice Department on its proposed rule which would modify its immigration - related antidiscrimination regulations, which are enforced by the Office of Special Counsel for Unfair Immigration - Related Employment Practices (the Special Counsel).

John is also regularly instructed to appear in analogous cases in the High Court and County Court such as claims in which a purchaser seeks to enforce post-contractual restrictions against a vendor of a business; claims to enforce duties of confidentiality; claims in which a company to enforce a former director's fiduciary duties; and claims under the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993.

We have vast experience with all of the major federal environmental, safety and health laws and regulations and their state analogs, which are enforced by state attorneys general.

In terms of the regulation of the profession, however, perhaps the most interesting controversy was with respect to the degree to which law societies are enforcing standards of civility among their members.

Judgments handed down in any of the Nordic States which have made the declaration provided for in subparagraph (a) under a forum of jurisdiction corresponding to one of those laid down in Chapter II of this Regulation, shall be recognised and enforced in the other Member States under the rules laid down in Chapter III of this Regulation.

Judgments given before the date of application of this Regulation but after the date of entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 in proceedings instituted before the date of entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 shall be recognised and enforced in accordance with the provisions of Chapter III of this Regulation provided they relate to divorce, legal separation or marriage annulment or parental responsibility for the children of both spouses on the occasion of these matrimonial proceedings and that jurisdiction was founded on rules which accorded with those provided for either in Chapter II of this Regulation or in Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 or in a convention concluded between the Member State of origin and the Member State addressed which was in force when the proceedings were instituted.

fm.: From Wikipedia: in government, typically a regulation specifically means a piece of the delegated legislation drafted by subject matter experts to enforce a statutory instrument (primary legislation) in business, industry self - regulation occurs through self - regulatory organizations and trade associations which allow industries to set rules with less government involvement The Act that authorizes the Agency would thus be the Legislative creation of Administrative Law (they give authority to enact the regulations as they see fit AND can further clarify through oversight power.)

A similar data breach in the future could make Facebook liable for fines of more than $ 1.6 billion under the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation, which will be enforced from May 25.