Sentence examples for equivalent authority from inspiring English sources

Nor has any European data protection authority yet taken legal action against an airline for handing over the information, although the Belgian Privacy Protection Committee is examining a complaint by a passenger and the equivalent authority in Spain is also understood to be considering a similar complaint.

There are 20 ministries and six organizations with ministry equivalent authority.

The religious edicts issued by an Islamic council of scholars in individual Islamic countries are applied, but such edicts are not law until passed by their parliament or an equivalent authority.

But they also grumble, understandably, that the European Commission takes 12 months to conduct its anti-dumping investigations whereas equivalent authorities in the US do the job in about three weeks.

(d) facilitate cooperation between judicial or equivalent authorities of the Member States in relation to proceedings in criminal matters and the enforcement of decisions.

It has always been difficult to determine which officials are equivalent in authority in the very different political systems of the two Koreas.

If Hong Kong authorities did not charge Snowden with an equivalent crime, authorities could not extradite him, lawyers said.

A short but sufficient answer is that subsequent ratification is equivalent to original authority.

Canada's equivalent civil aviation authority, Transport Canada, released 1,672 commercial drone certificates last year alone.

The kings set up "provincial counts" (Landgrafen) over whom the dukes would have no control and who would have rank and authority equivalent to those of dukes.

Under the provision of the amended by-laws, the chairman, elected for a one-year term, is empowered to act in all matters with authority equivalent to that of the president of the Regents.