Best Practice. 9.1 The parties agree that Best Practice is simply a better way of doing things - it is a process of constantly changing and adapting to new pressures and work methods. Best Practices are not fixed. It is the method of operation to achieve exemplary levels of performance. Best Practices are not restricted to an examination of cost, but also include quality and timely completion of work safely and efficiently.
Best Practice. NB strives to ensure that inter-country adoptions are in children's best interests and seeks to prevent the sale, exploitation, abduction, or trafficking of children. Payment for a child or an inducement to release a child for adoption is strictly forbidden. NB does not compensate any individual providing adoption services with an incentive fee or fee contingent on each child located for adoption. NB's employees, coordinators, and prospective adoptive parents are prohibited from giving money, gifts, bribes, or other consideration directly or indirectly to any person or entity, including any biological relative or caregiver of a child, as payment for a child or as an inducement to release a child for purposes of adoption.
Best Practice. Beneficiaries may contact the Commission/Agency to ask whether a particularly expensive travel plan would be accepted or not. Travel and subsistence costs may relate to the personnel of the beneficiaries as well as to external experts that participate in the action on an ad hoc basis (e.g. attending specific meetings), if the experts’ participation is envisaged in Annex 1. In this case, the beneficiary may reimburse the experts or handle the travel arrangements itself (and be invoiced directly). There is no distinction between travelling in or outside of Europe. The option for access to research infrastructure may be used, only if it is foreseen in your GA.
Best Practice. The NDA reserves the right to use any best practice identified during any inspection or audit carried out pursuant to this Clause AZ9 (Inspection and Audit) and/or at any Audit Close-Out Meeting, including the right to promulgate such good practice across all nuclear sites designated under section 3 of the Energy Act.
Best Practice. In case of overlapping EU action and operating grants, contact the granting authority (via Funding & Tenders Portal Message) for advice. Be aware that operating grants are not always easy to identify. They exist under various labels (operating grants; financial contributions/support to the functioning/operation of entities; etc.). Check your call text.
Best Practice. NB strives to ensure that inter-country adoptions are in the best interests of children and seeks to prevent the sale, exploitation, abduction, or trafficking of children. Any practice that consists of, or is related to, payment for a child or as an inducement to release a child for adoption is strictly forbidden. NB does not compensate any individual providing adoption services with an incentive fee or fee contingent on each child located for adoption. NB’s employees, coordinators, and prospective adoptive parents are prohibited from giving money, gifts, bribes or other consideration directly or indirectly to any person or entity, including any biological relative or caregiver of a child, as payment for a child or as an inducement to release a child for purposes of adoption.
Best Practice. Utilize Advanced Financing Tools such as an enterprise fund, stormwater utility, full cost pricing, or water bank for water/waste/storm water systems Waste Management Best Practice: Enhance Waste Ban Compliance so that recyclable and hazardous materials are diverted from the waste stream and reused or recycled Best Practice: Develop Waste Contracts that are fiscally, environmentally, and otherwise beneficial to the community Best Practice: Adopt Pay-As-You-Throw so that residents have an incentive to reduce trash disposal and save money Best Practice: Increase the Recycling Rate through regulatory improvements, service expansion, and other mean in order to reduce waste and disposal costs Best Practice: Enhance Education via Recycle Smart MA, the Recycling IQ Kit, etc. so residents throw away less, recycle more, & follow smart waste practices Site Cleanup Best Practice: Complete a Brownfields Inventory so that the community is aware of all abandoned & underutilized properties & can develop plan of action Best Practice: Conduct Site Assessments to determine the nature and extent of contamination and develop a plan of action Best Practice: Clean Sites to prevent further releases or the spreading of contaminants and to bring sites back into productive use Best Practice: Facilitate Site Cleanup and Reuse to encourage assessment, cleanup, & reuse of privately held sites offer tax incentives or update regulation Agriculture Best Practice: Adopt a Right to Farm By-law/Ordinance to clearly indicate that agriculture is a local priority and to minimize abutter conflicts Best Practice: Establish an Agricultural Commission to advocate for local farms, administer a right to farm bylaw, & otherwise represent agricultural interests Best Practice: Support Sustainable Forestry to help the forest economy in rural areas, improve forest habitats, and assist in the conservation of forest land Best Practice: Support Local Agriculture including Urban Agriculture, Aquaculture, Floriculture, & Horticulture, via marketing, food sourcing, & Farmers Markets to help local businesses and increase awareness of and access to fresh agricultural products Financial Management Best Practices Best Practice: Establish a Budget document that details all revenues and expenditures, provides a narrative describing priorities and challenges, and offers clear and transparent communication of financial policies to residents and businesses. Best Practice: Develop, document and implement Financial Polic...
Best Practice. It is recommended to describe in Annex 1 the relation between the beneficiary and the foundation/spin-off, and its impact on the participation of the beneciary in the Grant Agreement. If the entity carries out, directly or via a subcontract, action tasks allocated to the beneficiary, it must also be included in the Grant Agreement as an affiliated entity. Change to a specific purchase of service and new specific purchase of service — Specific purchases of services which were identified in Annex 1 (and for which assurance was granted) may be changed and new specific purchase of service that are deemed necessary may be introduced, both via an amendment. The amendment request will not be agreed, if it would result in changes that — if known before awarding the grant — would have had an impact on the award decision (see Article 39). Best practice: Beneficiaries should contact the granting authority (via Funding & Tenders Portal Message), if they intend to amend the grant to change a specific purchase of service assessed during proposal evaluation or to introduce a new specific purchase of service during the action implementation. Providers of research infrastructures services for trans-national and virtual access of users (HE) — Providers of high quality, in some cases unique, state-of-the-art research infrastructures services can be preselected when preparing the proposal (or later, to be added with amendments) on the basis of the quality of the services they provide and of the level of demand for these services by trans-national users applying for access in the framework of the HE project. The proposal and Annex 1 should identify these providers and describe both the access services provided and the logistical, technological and scientific support users need in order to make use of the installation (including ad-hoc training and preparatory and closing activities necessary to use the installation). The reimbursement of their costs by the beneficiaries will be considered as a specific purchase of services. If for any legal reasons, e.g. due to its applicable national legislation, an entity providing research infrastructures services cannot issue an invoice to a beneficiary but can be paid or reimbursed via any other forms of transaction, this system would be assimilated to an invoice for the assessment of the eligibility of these specific purchase of services costs. Their contribution to the inclusive and comprehensive portfolio of services requested in the t...
Best Practice. The club has an official Twitter page that coaches, athletes and parents can follow for information and updates on team-related matters. Coaches are not permitted to follow athletes on Twitter. Likewise, athletes are not permitted to follow coaches on Twitter. Coaches and athletes are not permitted to “direct message” each other through Twitter. Alternative Option: Coaches and athletes may follow each other on Twitter. Coaches cannot retweet an athlete message post. Coaches and athletes are not permitted to “direct message” each other through Twitter.
Best Practice. 29.5.7.1. Best Practice is a key feature of the Department's workplace reform agenda for schools.
