Sentences with phrase «working groups»

While QAI does not develop the regulations, QAI is actively involved in the industry working groups and the National Organic Standards Board to help ensure long - term consumer trust in organics.

Councils, Committees and Working Groups — led by representatives of our member organizations — determine how to fulfill consumers» needs, help shape the association's policy positions, identify industry - wide model practices, direct scientific research and ensure strong and frequent collaboration among members and with retail trading partners.

We need to be looking at industry collaboration to develop committed working groups that can effect change in our industry.

All members will be invited to join one of the five new working groups.

OFC members actively participate in the numerous committees and working groups that develop Canada's organic standards.

Establish mechanisms for collaborative investigations and enforcement including: Government to Government working groups under equivalence arrangements, joint working groups between certifiers, NOP, and / or State Organic Programs and require increased documentation under specific areas of concern.

The ambition of the World Forum for Alternatives and all the organisations and individuals who wish to be associated with it is to set up working groups on each of these themes, drawing together a great diversity of analysts and social and political leaders.

This time, however, they will be invited as full participants in the UN working groups themselves.

Although their mandate directed them also to study «existing patterns of church life, «9 all the working groups were generally reluctant to consider the existing structure of the congregation with the same interest and skill they brought to probing its relation to its environment.

The task is being carried out by four working groups, representing the Protestant mainline denominations, evangelicals, Roman Catholics and the university - related divinity schools.

This group is itself divided into five working groups which cover:

As a grassroots community organizer, I spend a lot of time in coalition and task force meetings, working groups and speaking events.

«There is an excitement that is palpable so, our goal is to harness this enthusiasm and direct it into working groups that actually influence national, state and large city governmental policies.»

Plato Partnership's development is driven by three key working groups: the Turquoise Plato Expert Group (TPEG), Market Innovator (MI3), and the Plato Strategic Initiatives Group (PSIG).

As founder members, the firms will be afforded a seat on the Plato Partnership board and working groups and enables firms to play a central role in developing and improving equities market structures in Europe.

Chen Weiguang, head of the Guangzhou city federation of trade unions, said Thursday the agency will meet company executives or send working groups to push hard for collective salary negotiation if any Fortune 500 company failed to comply before the deadline.

Between January and June 2014, working groups from around the world nominated at least four new cities as viable candidates to host RMB hubs.

Learn in different formats — from peer - to - peer sessions and working groups to webinars and office hours.

Participant of one of the working groups on the development of the cryptocurrency draft law.

The Asia Pacific Foundation Canada (APF Canada) hosted its first - ever Asia Connect Student Working Groups showcase competition on January 21, 2017.

In addition to launching the Asia Pacific Youth Council in 2016, APF Canada has organized a variety of student - focused engagements, including the Asia Connect Student Working Groups (2016 - 17), the Building Bridges: Connecting Asia and Entrepreneurship event (2017), and the ASEAN Dialogues (2017 - 18).

The next round of student working groups kicked off in January 2017 with 10 new student groups.

One of the four working groups this meeting established has a mandate to «stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and drive innovation» — and will do its work under the direction of ministers of economic development.

If working groups» tests are successful, firms could be using it to transact real value as early as the end of this year and we could see widespread industry application within the next few years.

Working groups would otherwise resolve issues themselves, then call in the chief negotiators if needed, then ministers, and the heads of state only in rare cases.

They were in the media realm, or in various working groups.

They heard reports from smaller working groups, relayed feedback they had gotten from civil rights groups and other outsiders and suggested ways that a policy or product could go wrong in the future.

The organization calls the commitments generated within these working groups «turning ideas into action,» by creating clearly articulated, concrete goals to solve a problem in a measurable way.

To that end, today and tomorrow roughly 1,000 participants will divide into 12 working groups of between 60 and 100 people.

While I.S.O. proceedings are generally confidential, new standards must go through many stages, with many rounds of voting — first with smaller working groups and then with full national delegations.

We use the Trello project management platform to help manage many complex jobs across work groups and departments.

At a second meeting, oversight for these issues was transferred to a working group led by France.

If you're trying to decide when to splurge on organic items and when to hold back, the Environmental Working Group's annual «Dirty Dozen» list is generally a good guideline.

The ministers agreed to create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» given concerns about Moscow's actions in Ukraine and Syria, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said.

Last March, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced the formation of a «sharing economy» working group, which would «bring together City Departments, neighborhood and community stakeholders and sharing economy companies to... explore policy alternatives and legislation to modernize those laws and / or address emerging impacts and issues.»

«What remains to be seen is the game plan, the sequencing, the processes involved as well,» John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School, told Bloomberg Television.

The jobs of both the president of the Eurogroup and Euro Working Group will soon be up for grabs as incumbents step down at the end of the year.

The board unanimously approved the plan, though it's not clear exactly to what extent Boland and the other working group members influenced the final version.

Elsewhere, Germany and France's finance ministers agreed to set up a working group, that would come up with strategies on creating a deeper, more integrated euro zone.

said members of the Democratic Women's Working Group were encouraging lawmakers of all parties and genders to participate, but the protest is likely to be seen as a direct critique of President Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct.

To make that transition, Semco divided employees into work groups of about 150 each.

The Environmental Working Group, for example, certainly thinks so.

North Korea is likely to continue pursuing ballistic missile tests at its current pace of about every three to four weeks despite the sanctions, according to John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School.

The entrepreneurship working group spent the rest of its sessions debating which projects had the most potential.

BHT is currently approved by the FDA but has been criticized as unnecessary and potentially dangerous by groups such as the Environmental Working Group.

This year's high - growth entrepreneurship working group counts Scott Case, chief executive of Startup America, among its advisors and will cover topics such as crowdfunding, entrepreneurial ecosystems and universities.

They took a hands - on entrepreneurship class together, and Redden joined Heraud's working group, in which they hatched the first plans for Blue River.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

TORONTO, April 23 (Reuters)- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday.