The Council first appeared in the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) as the " Special Council of Ministers ", set up to counterbalance the High Authority ( the supranational executive, now the Commission ).

Attorney General Qoriniasi Bale told the Lau Provincial Council that the government had a team of experts preparing a case to be taken to the United Nations International Seabed Authority, which is based in Jamaica.

Under the DOP, Israel agreed to recognize the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a " Single Territorial Unit " as well as to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Two principal organs establish the policies and govern the work of the Authority: the Assembly, in which all members are represented, and a 36-member Council elected by the Assembly.

It mandated that key articles, including those on limitation of seabed production and mandatory technology transfer, would not be applied, that the United States, if it became a member, would be guaranteed a seat on the Council of the International Seabed Authority, and finally, that voting would be done in groups, with each group able to block decisions on substantive matters.

The Chicago City Council approved, by a 41 – 6 vote on February 6, 2008, an increase in the city's real-estate transfer tax to bail out the Chicago Transit Authority.

The Greater London Authority is mostly funded by direct government grant and it is also a precepting authority, with some money collected with local Council Tax.

Eugenius IV's Struggle with the Council of Basel for Ultimate Authority in the Church, 1431 / 1449, M. Decaluwe, Brepols Publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-90-74461-73-3

* Village Council ( Palestinian Authority ): Localities with populations between 800 and 1, 500 have 3-member councils while those between 1, 500 and-4, 000 residents have 7-member councils.

The aim of Israeli – Palestinian negotiations was to establish a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, an elected Council, for the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, for a transitional period not exceeding five years, leading to a permanent settlement based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, an integral part of the whole peace process.

Meath County Council and the National Roads Authority have installed a number of traffic calming measures over the years in an attempt to make the bend onto the bridge safer, however crashes still occur.

Cheam is one of the southernmost areas in Outer London under the control of a Greater London Authority ( The London Borough of Sutton ) as opposed to Surrey County Council, which controls bordering towns to the South and West including Banstead and Ewell.

Barnet Council along with the 31 other London boroughs and the City of London Corporation share local government powers with Greater London Authority.

The lock was refurbished in 1992, and was managed by Waveney District Council, but there were discussions taking place in 2009 to transfer it to the Broads Authority, who manage the rest of the Broads.

Run by South Norfolk Council and the Broads Authority with local representation carried out by the Loddon Parish Council.

They are the Board of Adjustment, Heritage District Advisory Committee, Industrial Development Authority Board, Merit Board, Parks, Recreation and Library Advisory Committee, Planning and Zoning Commission, Public Safety Personnel Retirement System Board, Transportation Advisory Committee and the Youth Council.

The town is now administered by Durham County Council Unitary Authority.

It is managed by the West Highland Way Management Group ( WHWMG ) consisting of West Dunbartonshire Council, Stirling Council, Argyll & Bute Council, Highland Council and Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority.

What began with rules (" canons ") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew ( Old Testament ), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.

On August 8, 449 the Second Council of Ephesus began its first session with Dioscorus presiding by command of the Emperor.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

Initial discussions began with a meeting with Montreal City Council on June 21, 1949.

Dublin City Council began installing cycle lanes and tracks throughout the city in the 1990s, and the city has over of specific on-and off-road tracks for cyclists.

In 1968, with the help of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, McLean began reaching a wider public, with visits to towns up and down the Hudson River.

The First Vatican Council was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868, after a period of planning and preparation that began on 6 December 1864.

The First Lateran Council was called by Pope Callistus II whose reign began February 1, 1119.

The German Federal Government began an initiative to obtain a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council, as part of the Reform of the United Nations.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

He also established the Australian Council for the Arts ( later the Australia Council ), which began the tradition of federal government support for Australian arts and artists, an initiative that was considerably expanded by Holt's successor John Gorton.

In January 2000, Jamaica began serving a 2-year term on the United Nations Security Council.

On 19 March 2011, a coalition of United Nations member states led by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States began military operations in Libyan airspace and territorial waters after the United Nations Security Council approved UNSCR 1973, ostensibly to prevent further attacks on civilians as loyalist forces closed in on Benghazi, the rebel headquarters.

Japan began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1933 after the League voiced opposition to its invasion of Manchuria.

Italy also began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1937.

The formation of the Old Catholic communion of Germans, Austrians and Swiss began in 1870 at a public meeting held in Nuremberg under the leadership of A. Döllinger, following the First Vatican Council.

The conclave began on 23 December 1294, ten days after Celestine's resignation, in strict accordance with the rules established by Pope Gregory X at the Second Council of Lyons of 1274.

Moves towards a strict liability regime in Europe began with the Council of Europe Convention on Products Liability in regard to Personal Injury and Death ( the Strasbourg Convention ) in 1977.

The first of the 6, 000-member force began arriving in December, and the UN Security Council voted in February 2000 to increase the force to 11, 000, and later to 13, 000.

During this period, which began on 14 September 1964, the Council Fathers worked through a large volume of proposals.

Following years of intermittent classes in the Salt Lake City Council House, the university began to be reestablished in 1867 under the direction of David O. Calder, who was followed by John R. Park in 1869.

The many ethnic groups such as Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Jews, Italians, and African Americans that began to settle in Chicago in the early 1900s were mostly detached from the political system, due in part to lack of organization which led to underrepresentation in the City Council.

In tandem with institutions like the British Council, OUP began to reposition itself in the education market.