Once a case file is completed, the police pass it to the public ministry, the equivalent of the crown prosecution service, which decides whether an "acusacao" or indictment is brought.
He was promoted to the interior ministry – the French equivalent of the Home Office – in 2014, and became a household name after the series of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists over the last two years, including those in Paris and Nice, that killed 250 people.
The initial 3-year plan submitted to the ministry calls for the equivalent of five full-time researchers from IMO and other scientific institutions to work on volcano risk assessment.
Compared with at least 50 countries around the world, the US does not have a ministry of culture (or equivalent) to advance the role of the arts at home and abroad.
Considered by many to be the United States' equivalent of a ministry of culture and science, the Smithsonian consists of 16 museums, the National Zoo, and a half-dozen research centers.
Often regarded as the U.S. equivalent of a ministry of science and culture, the Smithsonian has 16 museums, the National Zoo, and a half-dozen remote research units, all of which get about two-thirds of their support from the U.S. government.
Procurement has been decentralized in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador, but the ministry of health (or its equivalent) prequalifies suppliers based on quality and reliability, and local/regional governments are allowed to procure only from prequalified suppliers.
The regional governor of Campania in the south promptly demanded the transfer of an equivalent number of ministries to Naples.
The usual pattern is that the national Ministry of the Interior (or its equivalent) keeps an official list of place-names, particularly of place-names that form administrative units, together with lists of districts, counties, and the like.
