We need to enforce issues dealing with environment, landscape and soil from a cultural point of view.
Activists and consultants who late last week met with officials of the Interior Ministry, under whose authority the protection system is enforced, issued a statement saying all parties agreed to the "urgent" need to fix the problems within a short period and to "correct the delays".
While the F.T.C. chairman, Mr. Leibowitz, said that he supported the new agency, another commissioner, J. Thomas Rosch, said Monday's case "gives the lie to the notion that we need a brand new agency" to enforce these issues.
The United States also assumed the role of judge and enforcer, issuing security guarantees to a large number of nations, patrolling the world's sea lanes, underwriting the international trading system, punishing those it judged to be rogue players — sometimes even at the expense of breaking the very rules it is supposed to uphold, as in the invasion of Iraq.
Another Village Board member, Peter Bee, says only that while enforcing ordinances, "certain issues came to our attention and we are in the process of reviewing the code".
But in a society where claims of corruption are common and laws often weakly implemented, critics say there are concerns over whether market regulators are capable of enforcing rules on issues like corporate governance and accounting and trading standards.
Previously, the government has gone to court to enforce summonses issued to the Arthur Andersen, BDO Seidman and KPMG accounting firms, the Jenkens & Gilchrist law firm and the Diversified Group, a tax shelter promoter.
Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country with sharia courts that run parallel to its secular ones; police can enforce fatwas issued by Muslim clerics.
The penalty would be enforced (or issue litigated) in civil court, much like the majority of cases that deal with tax policy and the IRS.
Agency officials said that enforcing rules and issuing fines would have delayed the cleanup, and contractors could have passed along the cost of the fines to the city.
