`` Mr. Gross, your report says that ' our function is investigative and advisory and does not in any way derogate from or prejudice Mr. Bang-Jensen's rights as a staff member.

Trotsky was one of the first Bolshevik leaders to recognize the problem and he pushed for the formation of a military council of former Russian generals that would function as an advisory body.

The advisory group recommended an international mechanism that would function somewhere in between providing strictly-loaned and strictly-granted funds.

While the CMI continues to function in an advisory capacity, many of its functions have been taken over by the International Maritime Organization, which was established by the United Nations in 1958 but did not become truly effective until about 1974.

The formerly independent municipalities were called districts and were given an advisory function.

The National Defence Council is Spain's highest advisory body on security and defense matters and performs the same basic function as the US National Security Council.

To reduce the influence of the estates, Joachim Frederick in 1604 created a council called Geheimer Rat für die Kurmark (" Privy Council for the Electorate "), which instead of the estates was to function as the supreme advisory council for the elector.

An advisory board and operating guidelines were also set up to handle any future situations which may arise, and also to help outline the function of The Gargoyle.

The Court's advisory function enables it to respond to consultations submitted by OAS agencies and member states regarding the interpretation of the Convention or other instruments governing human rights in the Americas ; it also empowers it to give advice on domestic laws and proposed legislation, and to clarify whether or not they are compatible with the Convention's provisions.

This advisory jurisdiction is available to all OAS member states, not only those that have ratified the Convention and accepted the Court's adjudicatory function.

These included institutional issues such as the proper role of international judicial bodies, and the ICJ's advisory function.

Initially Gosplan had an advisory function.

In the 19th century the board had an advisory function on economic activity in the UK and its empire.

It was originally planned to have a purely advisory function, but on 18 October, Vice-president Hatta issued Decree X transferring the powers the Constitution conferred on the People's Consultative Assembly and People's Representative Council from the president to the KNIP.

Another delayed function of the Council was the formation of the Assemblée Consultative Nationale, an advisory assembly required by the 1970 constitution.

The FTC will retain FDCPA enforcement authority, but the CFPB will take over the FTC's advisory opinion function.

Another delayed function of the Council was the formation of the Assemblée Consultative Nationale, an advisory assembly required by the 1970 constitution.

In practice, however, the Governor's main function was to maintain a satisfactory relationship between the British and Southern Rhodesian Governments and acted in an advisory capacity most of the time.

The council was to be an advisory body to the president ( who was at first likely to come from the military itself ), and would function as a sort of constitutional court to ensure that the laws passed by parliament were in accord with the MFA's desires and did not undermine the achievements of the revolution.

These, however, have only an advisory function at town council, and seats are apportioned according to election results in each constituent community.

The board was granted an advisory function to town council and the right to speak at council meetings, and it worked out suggestions for, among other things, renaturalization and desegregation.

Each association of the two professional leagues is represented in presidential conferences ; these have advisory function in all affairs concerning the Bundesliga.

In many comuni, in addition to their advisory function, the frazioni are endowed with their own clerks and recorders of deeds, but do not maintain their own civil records.

" The worst feature of the scheme is that no one knows — and perhaps no one is meant to know — how advisory Guidelines and ' unreasonableness ' review will function in practice.

* Asks the Inter-American Court to provide advisory opinions on matters relating to the interpretation of the Convention or other related instruments.

In 2007, he established his own consultancy Bradford & Associates Ltd which specialises in governance advisory and implementation projects for international bodies such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank and foreign governments.

The mandatory nature of such resolutions was upheld by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in its advisory opinion on Namibia.

The Court may give an advisory opinion on any legal question at the request of whatever body may be authorized by or in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to make such a request.

The Court could issue either judgments or advisory opinions ; judgments were directly binding, while advisory opinions were not.

In practice member states of the League of Nations followed advisory opinions anyway, fearing that to not do so could undermine the moral and legal authority of the Court and League.

During its first year of business the Court issued three advisory opinions, all related to the International Labour Organisation created by the Treaty of Versailles, and collectively grouped into the International Labour Organisation Questions.

The Court was given nine cases during 1922 and 1923, however, with judgments called " cases " and advisory opinions called " questions ".

The 4 advisory opinions issued by the Court were in the Polish Postal Service in Danzig Question, the Expulsion of the Ecumenical Patriarch Question, the Treaty of Lausanne Question and the German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia Question.

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

The Court also issued " advisory opinions ", which arose from Article 14 of the Covenant creating the Court, which provided " The Court may also give an advisory opinion upon any dispute referred to it by the Council or Assembly ", which Goodrich interprets as indicating that the drafters intended a purely advisory capacity for the Court, not a binding one.

In 1927 the Court appointed a committee to look at this issue, and it reported that " where there are in fact contending parties, the difference between contentious cases and advisory cases is only nominal ... so the view that advisory opinions are not binding is more theoretical than real ".

On 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice gave the following advisory opinion: " The declaration of independence of Kosovo adopted on 17 February 2008 did not violate international law.

The bill-tabled by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu and supported by Prime Minister Edward Natapei and opposition leader Maxime Carlot Korman-committed Vanuatu to recognising West Papua's independence ; to seeking observer status for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and in the Pacific Islands Forum ; and to " request Nations General Assembly support for the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the process in which the former Netherlands New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia in the 1960s ".

The Committee of Ministers may, by majority vote, request the Court to give advisory opinions on legal questions concerning the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, unless the matter relates to the content and scope of fundamental rights which the Court already considers.

In Minnesota, Human Rights Campaign pressed for an advisory ruling regarding anonymous PAC spending from the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Commission.

The individual who brought the matter to FFRF's attention has filed a discrimination complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations and FFRF is only involved in an advisory capacity.

He currently sits on the advisory board of The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University and on the board of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association.

After his retirement from active duty, Schoomaker served as a Director for DynCorp, as well as on the advisory boards of Camber Corporation and EWA-Government Systems Inc. Concurrently, Schoomaker was the Director of CAE USA Inc. ( from November 2007 to February 2009 ), where he still serves a member of the Human Resources Committee as well as an independent director and consultant on defense matters.

Shabazz served on an advisory committee on family planning for the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses, the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy, the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy, and the special advisory panel to the National Institute of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.

He was Chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council and President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Leadership Council. He is a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Alliance for Climate Protection an advisory board member for the Toigo Foundation and a Senior Advisor for BSE US Bank Opportunity Fund.

One such group was an advisory committee of the United States Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) which in 1973 drafted a code of principles called the Fair Information Practices.

The growth of such bodies has been encouraged by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( OHCHR ) which has provided advisory and support services, and facilitated access for NHRIs to the UN treaty bodies and other committees.

The conservative Heritage Foundation argued " the Clinton Administration is imposing a top-down, command-and-control system of global budgets and premium caps, a superintending National Health Board and a vast system of government sponsored regional alliances, along with a panoply of advisory boards, panels, and councils, interlaced with the expanded operations of the agencies of Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor, issuing innumerable rules, regulations, guidelines, and standards.

MHRA hosts and supports a number of expert advisory bodies, including the Commission on Human Medicine which replaced the Committee on the Safety of Medicines in 2005, and the British Pharmacopoeia Commission.

In October 2001, Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, named Henderson chair of a new national advisory council on public health preparedness which is charged with improving the national public health infrastructure to better counter bioterrorist attacks.

He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Centre Against Expulsions and a jury member of the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Education for Employment Foundation, several academic advisory boards, and has served on the board of Human Rights Watch ( and as Chair of Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch / Middle East ).

The company conducts marketing, brand development and advisory work for artists and companies including Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez ( managing their apparel and lifestyle products line with Kohl ’ s Department Stores ), Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, The Jill Zarin Brand, and Freehand Music and Human Potential Project.