CHAPTER 2 The legal and regulatory framework for environmental protection in India Legislation for environmental protection in India Water Water quality standards especially those for drinking water are set by the Indian Council of Medical Research. These bear close resemblance to WHO standards. The discharge of industrial effluents is regulated by the Indian Standard Codes and recently‚ water quality standards for coastal water marine outfalls have also been specified. In addition to the
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------------------------------------------------- The Data Protection Act (UK – 1998‚ Malta – 2001): The DPA concerns the “collection‚ recording‚ organization‚ storage‚ adaptation‚ alteration‚ retrieval‚ gathering‚ use‚ disclosure‚ blocking‚ erasure or destruction of personal data”. The purpose of the Data Protection Act: a. The purpose of the DPA is to protect living individuals against the misuse of their personal data. Examples of such misuse could include exposing of personal data
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------------------------------------------------- Consumer Protection Act‚ 1986 Consumer Protection Act‚ 1986 is an act of Parliament of India enacted in 1986 to protect interests of consumers in India. It makes provision for the establishment of consumer councils and other authorities for the settlement of consumers’ disputes and for matters connected therewith. Citation : Act No. 68 of 1986 Enacted by : PARLIAMENT OF INDIA Date commenced : 24 December
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environmental protection 1. Introduction In the past decades‚ China has achieved unprecedented economic and social progress‚ at the same time; China also faces many new challenges‚ especially increasing environmental issues and depleting resources. Fortunately‚ Chinese government has put these issues in an important position and makes efforts for sustainable development. This paper takes two cases in China to illustrate the significance of government in environmental protection‚ one case is government
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The equal protection clause was put in place to protect Americans who were being treated unfairly and to help prevent more people from being mistreated. All throughout history people have been treated unequally due to their differences. Time after time citizens have been denied their rights and this clause was put in place to help reduce the amount of people being affected by unequal treatment. The equal protection clause provides those in the American political system with comparable opportunities
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Patent Protection and TRIPS Agreement Bangladeshi pharmaceutical firms focus primarily on branded generic final formulations using imported APIs. Branded generics are a category of drugs including prescription products that are either novel dosage forms of off-patent products produced by a manufacturer that is not the originator of the molecule‚ or a molecule copy of an off-patent product with a trade name. About 80% of the drugs sold in Bangladesh are generics and 20% are patented drugs. The
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freckles‚ which occur in people with fair skin‚ are usually due to sun exposure. Freckles are nearly always a sign that sun damage has occurred‚ and show the need for sun protection. A sunburn is damage that you can see. If you get burned‚ be sure to rub aloe over the burn and cover up! Sun exposure can harm ANYONE at ANY AGE. Sun protection should begin in infancy and continue throughout life. It is estimated that we get about 80 percent of our total lifetime sun exposure in the first 18 years of life
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Topic- Investor Protection and Role of SEBI RESEARCH SCHOLAR- Anand Singhj Chauhan AKS Management College‚ Lucknow The decade of the 1980’s witnessed a phenomenal growth and development. For the first time the Indian securities market‚ demon started its potential not only to mobilize the savings of the house-hold sector but also to allocate it with some degree of efficiency for industrial development. By the end of the decade‚ the securities market emerged into the main stream of the financial system
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holidays‚ and any other entitlements and benefits provided. Workers have the right to have access or received a copy of their personal information held and can seek compensation for damages or distress suffered as result of a breach of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office also has the power to issue monetary penalties to organisations for serious breaches of the Act. 2 Types of data to be collected and explain how each support HR Two of the key data collected and
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A Comparison Between High-Impedance and Low-Impedance Restricted Earth-Fault Transformer Protection Casper Labuschagne‚ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories‚ Inc. Izak van der Merwe‚ Eskom Enterprises Abstract—Restricted earth-fault (REF) protection on a transformer is a subject for which there has been little attention and‚ compared to other types of protection‚ very little literature exists. Depending on the method of transformer earthing and fault location‚ some transformer earth faults result
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