Key Commitments. 1. The Parties affirm their respective commitments to the principles of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up (1998).
2. Each Party shall seek to improve its labour laws, regulations, policies and practices, taking into account the international labour commitments applicable to it and its domestic circumstances.
3. Each Party shall respect the other Party’s right to set, administer and enforce its own labour laws, regulations, policies and priorities, as appropriate.
4. The Parties recognise that it is inappropriate to set or use their labour laws, regulations, policies and practices for trade protectionist purposes.
5. The Parties recognise that it is inappropriate to encourage or gain trade or investment advantage by weakening or failing to enforce or administer their labour laws, regulations, policies and practices in a manner affecting trade between them.
6. Each Party shall promote public awareness of its labour laws and regulations domestically.
Key Commitments. The Parties have agreed to work together to develop and implement policy and best practice to protect surface water and groundwater and reduce the risk of flooding on the existing road network and new road projects. To do so, the Parties will work together (along with Agents and Contractors) in the following areas: The Parties have agreed the following commitments: Highway Schemes
1) The Parties will consult at an early stage about proposals for highway schemes, so that they can agree requirements for: The Environment Agency will respond to requests for information and comment on submissions within agreed timescales.
2) On major schemes, the Highways Agency will determine the need to carry out an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for all highways schemes, including maintenance schemes, as required under Sections 105A and 105B of the Highways Act 1980 as inserted by the Highways (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999 No.369) and consider whether it is necessary to publish an environmental statement for which the Environment Agency is a statutory consultee. The Environment Agency will co-operate by providing data that could reasonably be requested by the Highways Agency or its agents engaged in preparation of an EIA, within reasonable timescales. Likely details required for assessing a major highway scheme requiring an Environmental Statement are in Appendix D.
3) On smaller schemes, including maintenance schemes, the Highways Agency will consult the Environment Agency about its proposed protection measures for any works where there is a potential adverse impact on the water environment and the need for any necessary consents or permits (refer to Chapter 3). The Parties will work together to agree protection measures commensurate with identified risks within reasonable timescales.
4) The Highways Agency will, upon request, and where appropriate, include in any contract documents for works it undertakes directly, the “Special Requirements in Relation to the Environment Agency”. The Parties will agree in advance the level of detail to be submitted with any proposals. Surface and Groundwater Protection
5) The Highways Agency will, wherever possible, assist with identifying its assets within any river catchment and will make available to the Environment Agency, wherever possible, drainage plans of the road network in support of WFD related activities.
6) The Environment Agency will consult with the Highways Agency on developing River...
Key Commitments. 1. The Parties respect the right of each Party to set, administer and enforce its own environmental laws, regulations, policies and practices according to its priorities.
2. The Parties agree that the primary purpose of their environmental laws, regulations, policies and practices should be to achieve environmental objectives, and it is inappropriate to either encourage trade and investment by weakening the effectiveness of their environmental laws and regulations or to set or use those laws and regulations for trade protectionist purposes.
3. The Parties recognise the desirability of clear and well understood sustainable development policies and practices and the utility of broad consultation in formulating these policies.
4. Each Party recognises the importance of promoting public awareness of its environmental laws, regulations, policies and practices.
Key Commitments. The Partner Authorities:
Key Commitments. A new Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1.2) clause has been included. The parties have also incorporated a clause (1.3) that recognises the way the parties have worked together and intend to work together in the future.
Key Commitments. 2.1 Responses to service user needs
Key Commitments. Chapter 2 Protecting the environment and the travelling public from the effects of pollution and environmental incidents on the highway 2.1 Introduction
Key Commitments. The Parties will work together and with other responders to develop and implement best policy and best practice to protect people and the environment from the effects of spillages and the impacts of environmental incidents on the public and highway network. The Parties have identified areas where they can improve working practices and agreed key commitments for how they will do this. These are set out below and cross referenced throughout the document: Incident response planning
1. The Parties will work together and with partners to implement and test emergency plans for dealing with environmental pollution and/or flooding incidents. Incident reporting
2. The Highways Agency will build into its procedures and maintain a system for notifying the Environment Agency of incidents which have the potential to pollute the environment that occur on motorway and trunk roads.
3. The Environment Agency will inform the Highways Agency of incidents that have the potential to cause environmental pollution and /or threaten the road network. Incident response
4. The Parties will work together and with other responders to develop operational procedures and protocols that ensure an effective rapid and co-ordinated response to environmental incidents to minimise the impact they have on people and the environment.
5. The Environment Agency will provide advice and guidance to the Highways Agency in accordance with these procedures and protocols to help it mitigate the impacts of incidents and comply with legislative requirements. Where necessary and safe to do so, its officers will attend the incident scene.
6. The Highways Agency and/or agents will respond to pollution incidents as requested by the Environment Agency and take action to mitigate the impacts of incidents.
7. The Highways Agency will, wherever possible, help the Environment Agency gain access to the incident scene and provide a safe working environment. Pollution control facilities
8. The Parties will identify locations across the highway network where there is a risk of spillages. The Parties will agree measures to mitigate the impact of a spillage in line with the guidance in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges Volume 11, Section 3, Part 10: HD45/09: Road drainage and the Water Environment and the principles and commitments set out in Technical Annex 2: The Water Environment. The location, nature and operation of these structures will be shared with other responders. Drainage maps
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Key Commitments. The framework principles provide the foundation for the commitment required of each party to the agreement. These commitments place responsibility and obligation on both management and trades unions to actively promote and abide by them at all times. • Commitment to employment security • Commitment to promote and encourage trade union membership • Commitment to trade unions being the ‘Employee Voice’ within the Council. whilst membership levels represent a majority of workers employed by the Council. This is not intended to be used as a mechanism for derecognition. • Commitment to support the training and development of trade union official and shop stewards within their roles • Commitment to positively using all appropriate means including, where required, exhausting the disputes procedure as a means of resolving differences before embarking on any form of industrial action. • Commitment of trade unions, where appropriate, to work together to represent a common ‘Staff-side’ position to management to facilitate ‘single table’ bargaining. • Non-adversarial industrial relations, to work to resolve issues in a spirit of compromise rather than conflict.
Key Commitments. The Parties recognise the intrinsic value of their information holdings to one another and the business efficiencies that can be gained from sharing these, subject to proper controls and legal restrictions and policies of the respective Parties The Parties will commit to: of the other Party. This does not preclude charging a reasonable sum to cover the cost of work on the information (e.g in supplying in a particular format) or third party royalties registrations/notifications leaflets etc. (subject to the terms and conditions of specific service level agreements) of income. It is agreed that neither Party will seek to profit financially from information supplied by the other Party.
