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Three Essays on the Effectiveness of Voluntary Forest Certification.
... Another way to investigate whether changes at the baseline audit are part of a broader unobserved productivity trend is to look at how firm-level production changes at FSC events. Firms manage a portfolio of forests, ...
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Voluntary building certification schemes in São Paulo: Strengthening the LEED certification process for existing buildings
... such voluntary schemes, the Brazilian Green Building Council and also Fundação ...a certification tool or an uncertified project – can and should be altered in order to allow minimisation of such ...
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Voluntary disclosure schemes for offshore tax evasion
... Why invest o¤shore if not to evade tax? As well as potential pecuniary bene…ts in the form of higher pre-tax rates of interest than available onshore, o¤shore investments can also o¤er legitimate tax advantages. Pension ...
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Voluntary disclosure schemes for offshore tax evasion
... Why invest ofshore if not to evade tax? As well as potential pecuniary bene- its in the form of higher pre-tax rates of interest than available onshore, ofshore investments can also ofer legitimate tax advantages. ...
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GOOD PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR VOLUNTARY CAR SCHEMES
... 9.6 Blue Badge Scheme The Blue Badge Scheme provides a range of parking benefits for disabled people with severe walking difficulties who travel either as drivers or as passengers. The scheme operates throughout the UK. ...
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Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Schemes: A Preliminary Analysis
... been three largely distinct strands of ...detection. Voluntary disclosure, therefore, takes place in the shadow of a credible threat of sanctions for those who choose to under-disclose (or make no ...
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What Drives Voluntary Eco-Certification in Mexico?
... Drives Voluntary Eco-Certification in Mexico? Allen Blackman and Santiago Guerrero Abstract Advocates claim that voluntary programs can help shore up poorly performing command-and- control ...
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Requirements for Certification as an. IRCA Auditor (All Schemes)
... previous three-year certification ...prequalification schemes to build on and formalise mutual recognition already in operation amongst some ...
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Refurbishment certification schemes: aspects of productivity and sustainability
... Aims at goal-setting and internalization rather than forcing strict solutions BREEAM includes detailed assessment criteria, procedure, compliance notes and schedules of evidence for each category. These provide a ...
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Standards of Excellence Certification Program for Voluntary Health Agencies
... The requirements for basic governance procedures and conformity with applicable laws and regulations are designed to ensure that member organizations are stable and well run. The desired stability is also manifested by ...
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Communicating Sustainable Food Certification Schemes and the Supply Chain
... pick three things, you are going to tell people about the health issues with it, because threat is legal you have to tell them that about salts, fats and sugars and frankly I put that in my body so I really want ...
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Best practice framework for animal welfare certification schemes
... a voluntary agreement between organic certifying bodies has led to a Global Organic Textile which enables mutual recognition of schemes in different ...
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Certification of biofuels within the Directive 2009/28/EC : a comparative analysis of certification schemes
... the three certification standards supports this ...the certification schemes on the market. The certification schemes as private economic competitors on the market, only survive ...
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Benchmarking Policy Inputs and Social Outputs of Retirement Payment Schemes: China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan Compared With the Three Worlds
... 1339 outputs may be more meaningful for the reason that they describe the social goals that retirement payment programmes aim to fulfil. Among the five selected Asian retirement payment systems, from the output point of ...
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What Determines Chinese Firms’ Decision on Implementing Voluntary Environmental Schemes?
... tional voluntary standard for environmental management systems, firms’ decision to undertake the certification of it normally depends on how strong their incentives in raising the level of the environmental ...
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Certification schemes and the governance of land : enforcing standards or enabling scrutiny?
... compensation. Certification schemes can push them toward this end, but as non-judicial systems they must always seek to negotiate with the ‘guilty party’ over the terms of their ...at three major ...
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National Certification Schemes for Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Service Technicians
... and Certification A ‘Standard’ is a formal document developed by experts to ensure a certain uniform level of products and ...the certification of technicians and enterprises related to refrigeration and ...
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For voluntary appraisal certification
... Handbook on Inspection of Seafarers’ Working and Living Conditions (For voluntary certification) Page-1 1. Introduction Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 was established by consolidating and updating of 68 ...
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Certification as a Rationale for Voluntary Agreements
... with certification, the monopoly can screen all buyers by selling at the maximum price d 1 unless a buyer voluntarily certifies their valuation: such a buyer would then get a personalized rebate that covers the ...
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MSBO Voluntary Certification Program
... (1) Subject to section 1246 of 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1246, beginning July 1, 1999, a school district shall not continue to employ a person as an administrator who has not completed, wit[r] ...
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