Because the Finance Committee typically deals with impenetrable tax provisions, its custom is to vote on legislative proposals written in "conceptual language" -- in other words, plain English -- and to leave the legalese for staff to work out later.
At the national level, human rights norms exist because they have through legislative enactment, judicial decision, or custom become part of a country's law.
Legislative power lay with a "customs parliament" (Zollparlament) composed of deputies directly elected by popular vote, and, like the council, taking decisions by a majority vote.
The law is therefore exhausted by its sources (such as legislative enactments, judicial decisions, and customs, together with local conventions of interpretation).
What laws are in force in that system depends on what social standards its officials recognize as authoritative; for example, legislative enactments, judicial decisions, or social customs.
Then, there's that pesky federal Constitution, which authorizes only the legislative branch to impose an ordinary customs duty.
The EU has competency - or legislative power - over external trade and customs policy, the internal market, the monetary policy of countries in the eurozone, agriculture and fisheries and some areas of member states' laws like health and safety regulations.
Government departments (legislative body for food, public agency for food safety control, customs).
2. Government departments (legislative body for food, public agency for food safety control, customs) .
