In the Netherlands, proposed changes and additions to the Dutch Commodity Act are discussed with stakeholders (e.g., organizations of trade and industry, consumers organizations, authorities) in a Regular Consultation on the Commodity Act.
There is little formal political organization; authority traditionally rested in the male elders of kin groups.
Overall management is usually in the control of an organization, authority, or company that holds a license to operate the facility.
In May 1999, the administration for the first time gave about 150 universities, as well as high schools, religious groups and other organizations, the authority to license their members for travel to Cuba.
The students also organized video conferences with influential organizations and authorities on global health, such as the United Nations, the economist Jeffrey D. Sachs and various nongovernmental organizations working in Europe and elsewhere.
The ability of local authorities (probably in new alliances with international organizations, national authorities, and even the private sector) to deal with these problems will be a major concern in the mid-21st century.
"They look like they're running a system which has neither law nor order, neither organization nor authority," an Israeli Defense Ministry official, Amos Gilad, told Israel Army Radio.
Kosovo's stability has also been undermined by the question of which international organization has authority to supervise the territory.
But Senator Charles E. Grassley, who heads the Senate Finance Committee, urged Mr. Bush not to undercut the organization's authority, even if he does not like its decisions.
UNLIKE MANY PENTECOSTAL DENOMINATIONS, the Redeemed Church is a tightly regimented organization, with authority flowing down from the general overseer through geographic zones and into individual parishes.
