These minimal standards consist of prohibiting severe forms of trafficking, prescribing sanctions proportionate to the act, and making a concerted effort to combat organized trafficking.
"As such, the PFA considers that there is no justification for a fine other than up to the prescribed sanction of two weeks wages".
But these "protocols" don't require any specific, measurable goals or face any federal prescribing targets, mandates, sanctions or accountability, notes Anna Johnson, a policy analyst with NYCL.
That is not something for which the EU's 2002 Post Directive can be blamed, for it prescribed no such sanctions at national level.
To ensure that prescription quotas of low-cost drugs were respected, monitoring of the physician's prescribing pattern and sanctions for physicians who do not comply with the quotas were also set, although these were rarely implemented [ 31].
"A lawyer representing Celtic recently was successful in having charges against that club dropped because of the inadequacy of the SFA's prescribed rules, regulations, and sanctions.
Austin also wanted to include within "the province of jurisprudence" certain "exceptions," items which did not fit his criteria but which should nonetheless be studied with other "laws properly so called": repealing laws, declarative laws, and "imperfect laws"—laws prescribing action but without sanctions (a concept Austin ascribes to "Roman [law] jurists") (Austin 1832: Lecture I, p. 36).
Feedback and/or sanctions on prescribing practice should be more influential than a recommendation versus an option.
Of the 23 physician participants, only 9% reported concerns about possible legal or regulatory sanctions as a consequence of prescribing opioids as treatment for chronic pain.
In addition, residents prescribe scheduled substances under the authority of the hospital's DEA number, and the inappropriate prescription of opioids may expose the hospital to sanction.
