In the first place, it has some convening power in being a part of a respected UN agency with the global mandate concerned with children.
That theological commitment, as it does in the USA's Declaration of Independence and in the world's Scriptures, mandates concern for the individual that sometimes supersedes the mechanism of market efficiency.
Our mandate concerns individual criminal responsibility.
But this agency's core mandate concerns food safety, and even the union's environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said recently that it had not looked adequately at the long-term effects of biotech crops on issues like biodiversity.
Often the case is made that national interests in public health in developed countries mandate concern for infectious diseases that originate in developing countries.
Diversity, a 'voluntary' concern as seen through the Anglo-Saxon lens, and discrimination, a 'legal' mandated concern as seen through the same lens, have simultaneously been gaining popularity in France since 2003.
"The UK wants to be, and is, an important international actor, and the government takes its responsibilities, as far as my mandate is concerned, seriously.
"I never thought I'd see the day when the White House, this president, came down on the side of big business, but left the American people out in the cold as far as this health care mandate is concerned," said Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader.
The first component, concerning the mandate's description of the task, was included to clarify whether the committee was supposed to evaluate evidence of effect.
THE fuel efficiency of American vehicles has shot up in recent years, thanks to a blend of government mandates, environmental concerns and consumer fashion.
