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The assistance provided to the local authorities is in accordance with the agencies' code of conduct which requires impartiality and non-discrimination.
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In the wake of a projected trillion dollars in subprime write-downs it's no comfort to investors who bought up residential mortgage debt that has now tanked to know that each rating agency's Code of Conduct clearly stated that "it was under no obligation to perform, and did not perform, due diligence".
Included are minimum requirements and criteria for determining whether a fishery should be certified to use the ecolabel, based on the agency's Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.
One solution alluded to above could be that governments or regulatory agencies endorse a code of conduct, similar to what they do for binding corporate rules (BCRs) (Moerel 2012), and what the European Commission aims to do in its proposed General Data Protection Regulation (Art. 38, European Commission 2012; European Parliament 2013).
While our survey suggests that most pharmaceutical companies and agencies have a code of conduct and provide mandatory training on responsible publication practices to relevant staff, this is not always the case, and there is room for improvement, especially for those that subcontract work to freelancers.
Clients should ask whether the trainers' gym or certification agency has a code of conduct, so a client can discern and report any unacceptable behavior.
This organization accredits agencies and publishes a code of conduct which all members must adhere to.[6].
In this study, all but four nursing agencies (98%) indicated that they had a code of conduct, and 77% of agencies indicated that they had formal contracts with clients.
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