Setts may be registered with the International Tartan Index ( ITI ) of the charitable organisation Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA ), which maintains a collection of fabric samples characterized by name and thread count, for free, and / or registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans ( SRT ) of the statutory body the National Archives of Scotland ( NAS ), if the tartan meets NAS's criteria, for UK ₤ 70 as of 2010.

The Digital TV Group publishes and maintains the UK technical specification for high-definition services on digital terrestrial television ( Freeview ) based on the new DVB-T2 standard.

Canada, especially Toronto, still maintains large high-rise clustered developments in working-class neighborhoods, a system that has fallen into disfavor in both the UK and US.

The league maintains a certain affiliation with several university groups in the UK ; the Oxford Monarchists, the Strafford Club of St. Andrews University, and the League of Monarchists of the University of Durham.

The UKHCA maintains a list of agencies in their local area using a searchable list of home care providers in the UK.

When acting as the competent authority for listing of shares on a stock exchange, it is referred to as the UK Listing Authority ( UKLA ), and maintains the Official list.

The UK Parliament maintains Parliamentary sovereignty and may legislate on any issue relating to the United Kingdom, with or without the permission of the devolved assemblies and parliaments.

In addition, the Company maintains a charitable trust which makes donations, principally to support trainee blacksmiths in the UK.

Biogen Idec maintains its international headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, and operates an International regulatory & clinical center of excellence in Maidenhead, UK.

The party maintains a presence in Western countries-having official organizations in Germany, UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, France, Finland, Denmark and Canada.

The UK National Tidal and Sea Level Facility ( NTSLF ) maintains a tidal observatory at Newlyn, and the UK Fundamental Benchmark is maintained there.

This work is now contracted by the JV, to a new company Innserve Ltd. Innserve supplies, installs and maintains drinks dispense systems in 98, 000 Pubs and bars around the UK.

The company maintains offices in Arundel, UK and Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

EWB Canada is legally and structurally separate from all other " Engineers Without Borders " organizations, although it assisted in the launch of EWB UK ( which uses EWB Canada's lightbulb logo ), and also maintains close relationships with EWB Australia, ISF Spain, ISF Italy, and Engineers for a Sustainable World in the U. S.

The UK National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, based at Wisley, maintains an Oenothera collection as part of its National Collections scheme.

In the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics maintains a series of codes to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data.

Blackwell's maintains over 40 retail outlets across the UK, with flagship stores located in Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and London.

The UK maintains a position that UNCRC is not legally enforceable and is hence ' aspirational ' only-albeit a 2003 ECHR ruling states: " The human rights of children and the standards to which all governments must aspire in realizing these rights for all children are set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In common with many institutions in the UK, and globally, the University maintains an open access repository that comprises an Open Access research archive and an OER repository: A store of Open Educational Resources produced at Leeds Met that are freely available for reuse under a Creative Commons ( Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2. 0 UK: England & Wales ) licence

SHAC maintains a decentralized approach with no official central leadership, allowing activists throughout the UK and North America to act autonomously, though The Guardian described Avery in 2008 as the de facto leader.

The Group's headquarters ( and UBIL's ) is located in George's Quay, Dublin in the Republic of Ireland whilst the official headquarters of UBL is in Donegall Square East, Belfast, in Northern Ireland, and it maintains a large sector of the financial services in both the UK and Ireland.

Shanghai Conservatory of Music maintains close relationships with many first-class conservatories and famous musicians, including collaborations with schools in the USA, France, UK, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, Austria, Germany and Japan.

* UK Joint Intelligence Committee

Professional guidance ( which is submitted to and approved by the UK Treasury ) is provided by industry groups including the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group, the Law Society.

* " Rock the Joint " ( 1952 recording )-# 20 UK, 02 / 1957

* A full list of UK SACs on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee website

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee coordinates nature conservation work on a UK and international level.

With the then newest and nearest bridge spanning the Forth ( the Kincardine Bridge, built in 1936 ) still around upstream, the upsurge in demand for a road crossing between Edinburgh and Fife prompted the UK Government to establish the Forth Road Bridge Joint Board ( FRBJB ) by Act of Parliament in 1947 to oversee the implementation of a new bridge to replace the ferry service.

* UK Biodiversity Action Plan, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

As of 23 September 2009, its website features photos of its officials meeting with George W. Bush, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and UK Crown Prince Charles.

In WW2 a Joint Imagery Intelligence unit was set up in Danesfield House, Medmenham in Buckinghamshire, UK for British and US Intelligence Officers to exploit imagery gathered on the Germans.

The Chief of the General Staff is the Standing Joint Commander ( UK ) ( SJC ( UK )), responsible for overall command of Military Aid to Civil Power within mainland United Kingdom.

The project was funded jointly by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee ( JISC ) and the US National Science Foundation over a 3-4 year period from 1 October 1999.

JET, the Joint European Torus, is a magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment located in Oxfordshire, UK.

* Joint activities between England ( or the UK ) and France, e. g. France – United Kingdom relations

It was constructed, by a Tarmac Construction / Bachy UK Joint Venture, in a drained arm of the former dock, using a simple " cut and cover " method to excavate an enormous pit 24 metres ( 78 ft ) deep and 265 metres ( 869 ft ) long.

Other outposts lodge in establishments such as the Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology ( JCMM ) at University of Reading in Berkshire, the Joint Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Research ( JCHMR ) site at Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and there is also a Met Office presence at many Army and Air Force bases within the UK and abroad ( including frontline units in conflict zones ).

* UK Parliament, Reports of the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege in Session HL 43-I / HC 214-I.

Body tissue samples from Eurasian Sparrowhawks are still analysed as part of the Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme conducted by the UK government's Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

Within Europe, this resulted in BOAC resuming Imperial Airways ' pre-war routes to continental Europe augmented by Royal Air Force Transport Command non-military flights from Croydon Airport, using Douglas Dakotas in RAF livery flown by crews in RAF uniforms, and UK domestic air services operated by the Associated Airways Joint Committee ( AAJC ), which had been formed of several pre-war charter companies on 27 June 1940.

The terms " infotainment " and " infotainer " were first used in September 1980 at the Joint Conference of Aslib, the Institute of Information Scientists and the Library Association in Sheffield, UK.

** In the United Kingdom, the A6 Air CIS ( Computers & Information Systems ) branch, also known as JFACHQ, UK Joint Force Air Component Headquarters

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