Last week the government's latest plan was to extend compulsory schooling to 18. Good idea.
The main dispute has been over how far to extend compulsory licensing, a tool that confers the right to manufacture patented drugs without the patent-holder's consent.
In 2007, the second year of the CFS initiative, the Parliament of FYR Macedonia adopted the revised Primary Education Law to extend compulsory primary education from eight to nine years.
To help tackle this issue I've submitted a business case to the government to ask for them to extend my compulsory audit powers". This article is published by Guardian Professional.
During her time at Liberty – initially as in-house counsel, then as director from 2003 – the organisation has seen off attempts to impose compulsory ID cards, derailed plans to extend the period suspects can be held without charge to 42 days, defeated the internment of foreign nationals and challenged powers under section 44 of the Terrorism Act to stop and search individuals without suspicion.
In 2008, even the EU lost patience, and made the targets mandatory – but not before manufacturers managed to extend the deadline for meeting the first compulsory fuel efficiency target by three years, despite being easily achievable.
For instance, it would be reasonable to extend the definition of compulsory licensing to allow poor countries which, unlike Canada, lack the domestic industrial capacity to produce the drugs they need, to import them from elsewhere.
To extend coverage, the law made it compulsory for Americans to have health insurance, on pain of a fine.
Countries with greater wealth tend both to expand education to a greater number of students and to extend the number of years of compulsory schooling.
To enable coverage of the predictable and long-term costs of treatment, national programmes to extend financial protection should be based on schemes that entail compulsory enrolment or be financed through taxation.
The blanket license shall not be construed to extend or apply to activities other than covered activities or to rights other than the exclusive rights of reproduction and distribution licensed under this section, or serve or act as the basis to extend or expand the compulsory license under this section to activities and rights not covered by this section on the day before the enactment date.
