The website — HealthCare.gov — will probably be more operational by the first deadline.
Asked by the House oversight committee whether it would be fully operational before a November 30 deadline set by Obama for fixing the problems, Park and David Powner, the government's IT director, both declined to answer.
It is much easier to plan in advance and avoid crises created by predictable deadlines and operational needs.
The single EU-wide platform for online dispute resolution will subsequently become operational six months after that deadline (i.e. in early 2015), as its operation requires the setting up and upgrading of out-of-court entities where needed.
The European Commission, however, argues that the blocs exist today largely on paper and that none of them are fully operational almost six months after the deadline.
Those who say that PTC must be implemented by the legal deadline ignore the technical, operational and regulatory issues that must be addressed first.
Bushehr is still not operational, having missed several start-up deadlines.
To keep this deadline of a new three level (surveillance, operational and investigative) monitoring system is required, including hydro-morphological, biological and chemical elements.
In 2010, Shetl said it had missed the deadline for ordering the cable to have it operational by an October 2013 target date.
Even the US seems unclear what it wants: on the one hand, Obama is promoting an agreement at Copenhagen which has "immediate operational effect", but his lead negotiator is discussing a mid-year deadline for completing a treaty.
