Selection of Subcontractors, Procurement of Materials and Leasing of Equipment The contractor shall not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability in the selection and retention of subcontractors, including procurement of materials and leases of equipment. The contractor shall take all necessary and reasonable steps to ensure nondiscrimination in the administration of this contract.
a. The contractor shall notify all potential subcontractors and suppliers and lessors of their EEO obligations under this contract.
b. The contractor will use good faith efforts to ensure subcontractor compliance with their EEO obligations.
Know-How Necessary for the Business The Intellectual Property Rights are all those necessary for the operation of the Company’s businesses as it is currently conducted or as represented, in writing, to the Purchasers to be conducted. The Company is the owner of all right, title, and interest in and to each of the Intellectual Property Rights, free and clear of all liens, security interests, charges, encumbrances, equities, and other adverse claims, and has the right to use all of the Intellectual Property Rights. To the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the Company has entered into any contract that restricts or limits in any way the scope or type of work in which the employee may be engaged or requires the employee to transfer, assign, or disclose information concerning his work to anyone other than of the Company.
Compliance with Laws and Permits Each of the Credit Parties is in compliance in all material respects with all Laws applicable to it and its business and assets, including Environmental Laws and ABTL Laws. Each of the Credit Parties holds all material permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations required under all such laws and regulations to own its assets and to carry on its business.
Human and Financial Resources to Implement Safeguards Requirements The Borrower shall make available necessary budgetary and human resources to fully implement the EMP and the RP.
Cooperation on forestry matters and environmental protection 1. The aims of cooperation on forestry matters and environmental protection will be, but not limited to, as follows: (a) establishing bilateral cooperation relations in the forestry sector; (b) developing a training program and studies for sustainable management of forests; (c) improving the rehabilitation and sustainable management of forest with the aim of increasing carbon sinks and reduce the impact of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region; (d) cooperating on the execution of national projects, aimed at: improving the management of forest plantations for its transformation for industrial purposes and environmental protection; (e) elaborating studies on sustainable use of timber; (f) developing new technologies for the transformation and processing of timber and non-timber species; and (g) improving cooperation in agro-forestry technologies.
2. To achieve the objectives of the Article 149 (Objectives), the Parties may focus, as a means of cooperation and negotiations on concluding a bilateral agreement on forestry cooperation between the two Parties. Such collaboration will be as follows: (a) exchanges on science and technology as well as policies and laws relating the sustainable use of forest resources; (b) cooperation in training programs, internships, exchange of experts and projects advisory; (c) advice and technical assistance to public institutions and organizations of the Parties on sustainable use of forest resources and environmental protection; (d) facilitating forest policy dialogue and technical cooperation under the Network of Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Rehabilitation in Asia- Pacific Region, initiated at the 15th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meeting; (e) encouraging joint studies, working visits, exchange of experiences, among others; and (f) others activities mutually agreed.
Information and Services Required of the Owner The Owner shall provide information with reasonable promptness, regarding requirements for and limitations on the Project, including a written program which shall set forth the Owner’s objectives, constraints, and criteria, including schedule, space requirements and relationships, flexibility and expandability, special equipment, systems, sustainability and site requirements.
Compliance with Laws and Material Contracts Each Borrower will comply, and cause each Subsidiary to comply, with the requirements of all applicable Laws and Material Contracts, except to the extent that failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected to (a) have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) result in any Lien upon either (i) a material portion of the assets of any such Person in favor of any Governmental Authority, or (ii) any Collateral which is part of the Borrowing Base.
State Approval of Replacement Personnel The Engineer may not replace the project manager or key personnel without prior consent of the State. The State must be satisfied that the new project manager or other key personnel is qualified to provide the authorized services. If the State determines that the new project manager or key personnel is not acceptable, the Engineer may not use that person in that capacity and shall replace him or her with one satisfactory to the State within forty-five (45) days.
Compliance with Federal and State Work Authorization and Immigration Laws The Contractor and all subcontractors, suppliers and consultants must comply with all federal and state work authorization and immigration laws, and must certify compliance using the form set forth in Section 7 (“Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act Affidavits”). The required certificates must be filed with the Owner and copied maintained by the Contractor as of the beginning date of this contract and each subcontract, supplier contract, or consultant contract, and upon final payment to the subcontractor or consultant. State officials, including officials of the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, officials of the Owner, retain the right to inspect and audit the Project Site and employment records of the Contractor, subcontractors and consultants without notice during normal working hours until Final Completion, and as otherwise specified by law and by Rules and Regulations of the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts.
Compliance with Laws; Licenses and Permits (a) The Transferred Subsidiaries, the Business, the Business Real Property and, with respect to the Business, Sellers and Controlled Affiliates are, and to the Knowledge of Sellers, the Joint Venture is, and for the past three (3) years have been, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws.
(b) Section 2.12(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter sets forth a true and complete list of all Permits (other than PMAs and DERs) primarily relating to, or used or held for use in the operation or conduct of, or in connection with, the Business as conducted as of the date hereof, including special use or conditional use Permits relating to zoning requirements (collectively, the “Business Permits”) that are material to the Business, and the legal owner of such Business Permits; provided, that all FAA certificates and aviation certificates issued by any foreign equivalent Governmental Authority shall be deemed to be material to the Business for purposes of this Section 2.12(b). The Business Permits set forth in Section 2.12(b) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule represent all material Permits necessary for the lawful conduct of the Business as conducted as of the date hereof. The Business Permits are valid and in full force and effect, neither Sellers, their Controlled Affiliates, nor any of the Transferred Subsidiaries are or have during the past three (3) years been in default under the Business Permits, and no suspension, revocation, cancellation or material modification of any Business Permit is pending or, to the Knowledge of Sellers, has been threatened, except for any default pursuant to any such Business Permit or proceeding to suspend, revoke, cancel or modify any such Business Permit as would not, individually or in the aggregate, be (or reasonably be expected to be) material to the Business, taken as a whole.
(c) Since April 1, 2018, none of the Transferred Subsidiaries, the Business or, with respect to the Business, Sellers or any other Controlled Affiliates thereof, any of their respective officers, directors, employees, or, to the Knowledge of Sellers, other representatives or agents, in each case, with respect to the Business, or, to the Knowledge of Sellers, the Joint Venture, has taken any action in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, all Laws enacted to implement the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Officials in International Business Transactions and all other applicable Laws relating to bribery, corruption, kick-backs or other improper or unlawful payments (regardless of the form, whether in money, property, services or otherwise) (collectively, “Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Laws”). For purposes of this Section 2.12(c), “Knowledge of the Sellers” means the actual knowledge or awareness of a high probability of the existence of such circumstance, unless the individual actually believes that such circumstance does not exist, as of the Business Day prior to the date hereof, of the individuals set forth on Section 9.1(d) of the Seller Disclosure Letter.
