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...Antitrust enforcers in Brussels and Washington have also indicated they are watching developments in the AI market closely....
...Ethan WuWho’s the head of the Federal Trade Commission in the US — the main antitrust enforcer....
...Companies designated as having “strategic market status” will be forced to adhere to codes of conduct that dictate how, for example, they share data with rivals....
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...A 2018 report from Transparency International found that only 24 alleged breaches of parliament’s code of conduct had been reported since it was introduced in 2012, with just one case sanctioned....
...Willoughby Andrews-King, operations director for the Vinoteca group of wine bars, alluded to this when sending me a copy of its guidelines on dress code and grooming....
...Offended by what he saw as tawdry mid-Victorian taste, Jones appointed himself an aesthetic enforcer, enumerating rules for every design task, according to elaborate codes and hierarchies....
...Stanley SkoglundI was the enforcer of Visa’s rules for a number of years....
...Things got much, much worse, and on March 12 1938, a contingent of Austrian enforcers arrived at the palais on the Ringstrasse. “There are fists on the door,” de Waal narrates in a menacing tone....
...“Promoting economic liberty and competitive markets is a shared goal of many international competition enforcers,” he added....
...But there is this sense that there’s actually nobody overseeing the ministerial code, there’s nobody actually monitoring this....
...This week, separately to the trade deal talks, the UK and EU agreed how the Brexit withdrawal agreement will apply to Northern Ireland, which will remain inside the UK while also applying the EU customs code...
...Steward says the FCA’s enforcers are targeting online platforms that fail to check if “financial promotions” have been issued by a regulated firm....
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...A long battle against software piracy, which has involved many years of delicate diplomacy with Chinese law enforcers, has yielded only minor victories....
...Mr Hogan singled out the UK’s groceries code adjudicator set up four years ago as “a wonderful example” of what can be done....
...But the president’s congressional allies recently approved a bill that strengthens tax collection powers and imposes a 5 per cent levy on gross receipts, on top of existing fees in the tax code....
...Potentially more game-changing are plans to map and sequence the genomic codes of the Amazon’s bountiful wildlife....
...It's a bit like cracking a safe or working a code-breaking Bombe machine to get to the correct combinations....
...While he has already made much of his opposition to Mr Johnson, suggesting that the frontrunner is not fit to be in charge of the “nuclear codes”, Mr Stewart is likely to ramp up this message over the weekend...
...The RCWS was devised in conjunction with the Gangmasters’ and Labour Abuse Authority, the labour standards enforcer....
...The effort is code-named Project Kuiper....
...His sparring partner last night was Margrethe Vestager, EU competition enforcer, who has frustrated some in Paris and Berlin for standing in the way of that dream....
...EU enforcers excluded Apple as a competitor because its iOS operating system is not available to be licensed on rivals’ smartphones....
...The blitz of energy takeovers was accelerated by an investor revolt against complex corporate structures and by changes to the US tax code....
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