Aims and Principles Sample Clauses

Aims and Principles. The parties to this Agreement resolve that the call-in system exists to ensure service continuity in the absence of permanent staff. The call-in system should be: i) Easy to understand; ii) Operationally viable; iii) Seniority driven; iv) Complementary to the organizational structure; v) In recognition of employees who commit to permanent part-time employment.
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Aims and Principles. 2.1 The overall aim of this protocol is to reduce homelessness among 16 and 17 year olds and provide an effective service response to young people who present at either Housing Authority or Children’s Services as homeless or threatened with homelessness. 2.2 The following principles apply when applying this protocol: • The safety and welfare of the young person is paramount. • It is in the best interests of the young person aged 16 or 17 years old to live with the family where it is safe and appropriate or with a responsible adult within their wider family or friends’ network. • It is best practice to work in partnership with families to prevent and respond appropriately to causes leading to a young person becoming homeless or threatened with homelessness. • Young People are supported to access services that can promote their overall wellbeing and welfare such as Health, Education, Employment, Training and prepare for independence. • The Young Person’s views, wishes and feelings are heard, clearly documented and an offer of independent advocacy is offered at the start of the assessment process.
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Aims and Principles. Caerphilly County Citizens Advice Bureau is independent and provides free, confidential and impartial advice to everybody regardless of age, race, gender, sexuality, disability, religion or language. The aims of the Citizens Advice service nationally are:- to ensure that individuals do not suffer through ignorance of their rights and responsibilities or of the services available to them or through an inability to express their needs effectively and equally to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services, both locally and nationally. To these Caerphilly County Citizens Advice Bureau has added a third aim: to help people develop their own skills and confidence to avoid financial crisis CCCAB will uphold these aims and principles in fulfilling the terms of this Service Level Agreement. CCCAB has a specific focus upon anti-poverty work, this includes maximising income and the effectiveness of income by the delivery of welfare benefits advice and debt advice and by carrying out preventative work in the form of financial capability training sessions for its own and other agencies’ front line staff and their service users to help people make better budgeting, borrowing, saving and banking decisions.
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Aims and Principles. The Red Cross is a volunteer humanitarian organisation which operates in accordance with the Geneva Convention and the seven fundamental principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.
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Aims and Principles. CCCAB is independent and provides free, confidential and impartial advice to everybody regardless of age, race, gender, sexuality or disability. The aims of Caerphilly County Citizen Advice Bureau are:- to ensure that individuals do not suffer through ignorance of their rights and responsibilities or of the services available to them or through an inability to express their needs effectively and equally to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services, both locally and nationally. CCCAB will uphold these aims and principles in fulfilling the terms of this Service Level Agreement
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Aims and Principles. 1.1 The Parties expressly state that this Framework Agreement is entered into with the aim of regulating, following and subject to the admission of Bankia’s shares to trading on the Stock Exchange, the relations between Banco Financiero y de Ahorros and Bankia, in order to establish the necessary mechanisms to guarantee at all times, within the limits provided by law, an adequate level of coordination between Bankia on the one hand and Banco Financiero y de Ahorros and the companies in its group (the “Banco Financiero y de Ahorros Group Companies”) on the other, to manage and minimise any situations involving potential conflict of interest between Banco Financiero y de Ahorros and Bankia (in particular in relation to related-party transactions), while ensuring the due observance and protection of the interests of Banco Financiero y de Ahorros’ and Bankia’s other shareholders in an atmosphere of transparency in the relations between the two entities. 1.2 In addition, the conclusion of this Framework Agreement also aims to ensure that Bankia can take advantage of its majority shareholder’s value creation abilities without affecting its independence. 1.3 The Parties agree that the desired framework of coordination, transparency and autonomy shall be created in accordance with the following criteria: a) Defining Banco Financiero y de Ahorros’ and Bankia’s main business areas;
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Aims and Principles. The parties to this Agreement resolve that the call-in system exists to ensure service xxxxx- nuity in the absence of permanent staff. The call-in system should be: i) easy to understand ii) operational viable iii) seniority driven iv) complementary to the organizational structure v) in recognition of employees who commit to permanent part-time employment The parties therefore agree that the following provisions shall apply to all allocation of such work* 1. classification(s) desired; 2. qualifications and specific training possessed; 3. availability for additional work; 4. length and type of shift desired; and 5. agreement to waive 3rd weekend overtime rate as specified in Article 13.16. Employees may revise or amend their applications provided they do so in writing and allow fifteen (15) calendar days for such changes to take effect. List Determination Call-in lists will be based upon existing practises as of date of signing of the Collective Agreement. The parties signatory to the Collective Agreement may enter into subsequent negotiations to determine the parameters of call-in lists. Call-in List Eligibility Dependant upon employment opportunities and employee availability, employees- shall be eligible to be on call-in lists as agreed by the parties; In the absence of such agreement, employees shall be eligible to have their names on three (3) call-in lists. No additional employees shall be hired until such time as Other Than Full-Time employees have been afforded the opportunity to orient in and be placed upon the call-in lists as provid- ed above. An employee on a call-in list who has not worked for one hundred and eighty (180) consecutive calendar days shall be removed therefrom. Except as otherwise provided herein, employees shall be expected to work their scheduled shifts. It is further understood that once an employee accepts an offer of additional work, he/she is obligated to report for that work unless subsequently granted paid or unpaid leave pursuant to the Collective Agreement.
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Aims and Principles. It is the supplier’s duty to insure the maintenance of an efficient and timely quality management system which effects compliance with the required product quality. Quality characteristics and other guaranteed values and properties of the contractual products are part of this agreement. The required characteristics and specifications are to be ensured with each delivered shipment. Changes of any kind require prior explicit consent from the customer. It is the supplier’s duty to pass on any information of any planned changes in good time. The supplier is required to carry out any quality assurance measures in a way that his products comply with the defined specifications. It is the supplier’s responsibility to ensure that enough capacities for the requested services are available at any time. The supplier warrants that his products are free from defects. Disaster recovery plan to safeguard the required supply? 1. Second plant: 2. Alternative process:
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  • Accounting Terms and Principles (a) Except as set forth below, all accounting terms not specifically defined herein shall be construed in conformity with GAAP and all accounting determinations required to be made pursuant hereto (including for purpose of measuring compliance with Article V (Financial Covenant)) shall, unless expressly otherwise provided herein, be made in conformity with GAAP. (b) If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement, and either the Borrower or the Administrative Agent shall so request, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement so as to equitably reflect such change in GAAP with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating the Borrower’s financial condition shall be the same after such change in GAAP as if such change in GAAP had not been made (subject to the approval of the Requisite Lenders); provided, however, that, (i) until so amended, (A) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP, as applicable, prior to such change therein and (B) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a written reconciliation, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP and (ii) for the avoidance of doubt, (A) the amount of any Capital Lease Obligation shall at all times be calculated in accordance with the definition of that term, and (B) notwithstanding any changes in GAAP after the Closing Date, any lease of the Borrower or the Subsidiaries that would be characterized as an operating lease under GAAP in effect on the Closing Date (whether such lease is entered into before or after the Closing Date) shall not constitute Indebtedness or a Capital Lease Obligation under this Agreement or any other Loan Document as a result of such changes in GAAP. (c) For purposes of making all financial calculations to determine compliance with Article V (Financial Covenant) and any other financial ratio hereunder, all components of such calculations shall be adjusted to include or exclude, as the case may be, without duplication, such components of such calculations attributable to any business or assets that have been acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (including through Permitted Acquisitions) after the first day of the applicable period of determination and prior to the end of such period, as determined in good faith by the Borrower on a Pro Forma Basis. For the avoidance of doubt, when determining Pro Forma Compliance with Article V (Financial Covenant) for purposes of any ratio test set forth in the definition of “Permitted Acquisition” or Article VIII (Negative Covenants), the test set forth in Article V (Financial Covenant) shall apply regardless of whether any Revolving Credit Commitment remains outstanding on the relevant test date.

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  • Operating Principles During the Term of a Site, Tower Operator shall manage, operate and maintain such Site (including with respect to the entry into, modification, amendment, extension, expiration, termination, structuring and administration of Ground Leases and Collocation Agreements related thereto), (i) in the ordinary course of business, (ii) in compliance with applicable Law in all material respects, (iii) in a manner consistent in all material respects with the manner in which Tower Operator manages, operates and maintains its portfolio of telecommunications tower sites and (iv) in a manner that shall not be less than the general standard of care in the tower industry. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, during the Term of a Site, except as expressly permitted by the terms of this Agreement, Tower Operator shall not without the prior written consent of the AT&T Lessors (A) manage, operate or maintain such Site in a manner that would (x) diminish the expected residual value of such Site in any material respect or shorten the expected remaining economic life of such Site, in each case determined as of the expiration of the Term of such Site, or (y) cause such Site or a substantial portion of such Site to become “limited use property” within the meaning of Rev. Proc. 2001-28, 2001-1 C.B. 1156 (except, in the case of this clause (y), as required by applicable Law or any Governmental Authority), (B) structure any related Ground Lease in a manner such that the amounts payable thereunder are above fair market value during any period following or upon the expiration of the Term of such Site (without regard to any amounts payable prior to the expiration of the Term of such Site) or (C) structure any related Collocation Agreement in a manner such that the amounts payable thereunder are structured on an initial lump-sum basis (if such amounts payable are not capital contributions or other upfront payments for capital improvements to a Site related to the use of such Site by the collocator under such Collocation Agreement) or are otherwise less than fair market value during any period following or upon expiration of the Term of such Site (without regard to any amounts payable prior to the expiration of the Term of such Site), in each case unless otherwise expressly authorized by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents.

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