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The Australian Conservation Foundation has joined Environment Victoria in providing a guide about how to green your Christmas! Some festive environmentally-friendly hints include:
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Herbert Grönemeyer is Germany's best-selling pop star, having sold almost 20 million albums over thirty years. Now, as Grönemeyer comes to America with the English-language album "I WALK" and a tour in February 2013, he is welcomed with a 90 minute PBS special. "I WALK" aired on Saturday, December 8, 2012 on PBS New Yorks's WLIW and was celebrated with a viewing party at a luxurious Mercedes-Benz Manhattan Showroom.
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To return to matters in hand, I was asked why we were going down this particular route. I hope that I have already explained it to some extent, but I highlight what the hon. Member for Twickenham said about the importance of advocacy generally and its successful use on behalf of consumers.
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In the light of what I have said about the designation process and my further reassurance that claims cannot be brought by bodies engaged in ambulance chasing or other vexatious activity, but only at the end of process through which damage to consumers will have been confirmed, I hope that Opposition Members will understand why the clause should stand part of the Bill.
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CAIR spokeman Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Hussein supports the boycott by Al Qaeda too. "Many of our other Islamic brothers have been unduly stopped and searched at airports and elsewhere simply for having a Quran, a heavy backpack, and false passports" he explained. "We know what it is to suffer persecution and hatred simply because of our religion which will dominate and take over the U.S. praised be Allah!!" Arizona state government spokesman Brad Cantrill responded to the Al Qaeda boycott. "We are only trying to protect the borders and uphold standing federal laws, but if Al Qaeda, CAIR and the Democrat Party would promise to stay away from our borders, we might consider dropping some of the harsher aspects of the bill."
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16.1 On 10 June 1996 the Council approved a mandate for
the Commission to negotiate a new Euro-Mediterranean Association
Agreement with Algeria. The Agreement was initialled by the Commission
and Algeria on 19 December 2001. It will widen the scope of the
Co-operation Agreement signed in 1976, which it will replace.
16.2 The Commission now proposes that the Council authorises
it, on behalf of the European Community, to sign the Agreement
and then, after the assent of the European Parliament has been
obtained, to sign a Decision concluding the Agreement. As a mixed
competence agreement, it will also be signed and concluded by
the Member States. Before coming into force it will need to be
ratified by the Member States, and approved by Algeria, as well
as by the European Community.
16.3 The Decision to conclude the Agreement is subject
to parliamentary scrutiny but there is no requirement for scrutiny
of the Council Decision authorising signature. As the Commission
has produced both Decisions in one document, the Minister for
Europe (Mr Peter Hain) has submitted an EM on both, so as to provide
us with an indication of the terms before signature. Normally,
a Minister informs us of such Decisions by letter.
16.4 The Agreement is one of the latest in a series of
Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreements to be concluded under
the EU's Mediterranean policy, launched at the Essen European
Council in December 1994, and is similar in content and form to
the others[25]. It is
for an unlimited period, but either Party may denounce it on six
months' notice to the other.
16.5 The Minister says that the Agreement will be signed
at the meeting of Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Ministers in Valencia
on 22-23 April 2002. A similar Agreement with the Republic of
Lebanon is also expected to be signed at Valencia[26].
Objectives of the Agreement
16.6 The Minister comments that the main objectives of
the Agreement are to provide an appropriate framework for political
dialogue, to strengthen economic relations between the Community
and Algeria, to encourage regional co-operation, to consolidate
economic and political stability, and to promote co-operation
in other areas of reciprocal interest.
Provisions of the Agreement
16.7 The Minister summarises the proposed Agreement as
providing for:
The Government's view
16.8 The Minister comments briefly. He says:
16.9 He adds:
"Depending on the extent of the increase in imports to the
EU and the sectors concerned, there may be additional costs to
the EC budget if internal production of agricultural products
is diverted to subsidised exports, intervention storage or other
means of disposal. Any such costs will have to be contained within
the budgetary ceilings set out within the financial perspective
as agreed at the Berlin Summit in March 1999".
16.10 It is not surprising that this Euro-Mediterranean
Agreement is to be signed under the Spanish Presidency. It follows
similar agreements with other Mediterranean members of the partnership
and is of particular importance to Spain. As it requires ratification
by the Member States, as well as approval by Algeria, it will
be some time before it enters into force.
16.11 We now clear the document.
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
On a boat!
Posted by HBF at 3:06:00 PM
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Creating some nice family memories there. Good for you!ReplyDelete
Awww! Look at little BB looking so cute.ReplyDelete
How nice, Hannah! Thank you so much for sharing your tour, I really enjoyed these photos!ReplyDelete
How lovely. And your smile and your boys are precious.ReplyDelete
Was it a banana boat? LOL Fun time.ReplyDelete
Looks like fun! Memories you'll look back on.ReplyDelete
Someone looks a bit . . . doubtful? . . . about the experience!ReplyDelete
Hahaha Thank you for all the comments! It had its ups and downs but overall a fun experience :o)ReplyDelete
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday proposed amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark civil rights measure that was hobbled after the Supreme Court determined last year that the law relied on outdated standards for racial discrimination.
The remedy authored by Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and John Conyers, D-Mich., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., seeks to rescue Section 5 of the act, which mandates that states with a history of racial discrimination get federal "pre-clearance" from the Justice Department before changing any voting practice or procedure.
In a 5-4 decision last June, the Supreme Court left the pre-clearance requirement in place but struck down the formula used to decide which states are covered, saying it relied on "decades-old data and eradicated practices." The court challenged Congress to come up with a solution.
Under the proposed Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014, states with five voting-rights violations within a 15-year period could be subject to federal oversight. Localities could fall under federal scrutiny if they were found to have three or more voting rights violations within 15 years or if they had one violation in 15 years coupled with "persistent, extremely low minority turnout" within that time frame.
The measure also allows courts to put states, localities and other jurisdictions under pre-clearance requirements if they had implemented rules that have been found to disenfranchise voters. The bill doesn't consider state-required photo identification to register or vote to be a violation.
Several states with Republican governors or Republican-controlled legislatures, such as Texas and South Carolina, have passed photo-identification voter laws, saying they're needed to guard against voter fraud. Democrats and some civil rights groups say the drive is an effort to curtail minorities, the poor and the elderly from voting.
Nine states were covered in their entirety under the old pre-clearance requirements: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Selected localities in an additional seven states also were covered, including parts of California, Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota.
Under the proposed formula, four states would automatically fall under pre-clearance: Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
Sponsors of the bill said they'd had to thread a needle and produce a Voting Rights Act fix that can pass a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, satisfy the Congressional Black Caucus and other Capitol Hill Democrats, and get buy-in from civil rights and civil liberties groups.
Sensenbrenner, who wrote the last Voting Rights Act reauthorization, in 2006, said lawmakers were racing against time to fix the act in time for the 2014 congressional elections and the 2016 presidential election.
"I knew the VRA must be fixed before the next election and any solution must be politically palatable while complying with the objections of the Supreme Court," Sensenbrenner said. "The modernized VRA is constitutional and bipartisan. It includes strong, nationwide anti-discrimination protections and continues to permit states to enact reasonable voter ID laws. Therefore, it prevents racial discrimination and gives states the ability to address voter fraud."
Civil rights and voting rights groups called the bill a good start.
"Although not perfect, this bill is an important first step," said Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "The bill released today provides an excellent starting point for public engagement in this process."
Judith Browne Dianis, a co-director of the Advancement Project, a grass roots organization, said her group had some serious concerns about the bill but she still called it a positive step.
"While the start of a critical debate on voting, the bill represents a floor, and not a ceiling, for ensuring that our elections are free, fair and accessible to all Americans," she said.


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|The list of candidates for FIFA's presidential election is set to be confirmed
FIFA are expected to announce the list of candidates for their presidential election on Wednesday. Eight candidates said they were standing before Monday's 11pm deadline, but FIFA is checking to see if all have the required five letters of support from member associations.
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The final list of candidates is being drawn up by Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA's audit and compliance committee. His list will be forwarded to FIFA's Ethics Committee, who will carry out integrity checks.
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Governor Kasich plants seed for new "major program" at State Fair
Anyone want to take a guess which "major new program" Kasich announced at the Ohio State fair this week?
Could it be he finally figured out a way to eliminate Ohio's income tax, as he promised during the campaign?
Oooh! Maybe he FINALLY announced a school funding plan? Or a way to expand Medicaid to cover uninsured Ohioans? Or a way to sell Ohioans on his severance tax plan?
If you guessed any of the above you'd be wrong. Wrong, wrong and wrong.
Instead, the "major program" Kasich announced at the fair grounds, according to Vindy's Marc Kovac – is…
Kasich, surrounded by the Statehouse press corps, made the big announcement that he wanted to get more "trees planted across the entire fairgrounds" while attending the State Fair last week. The program, which he appears to have just made up on the spot, will be "like nothing anybody's ever seen before". Except, he says, it will be just like Kennywood park in Pennsylvania, near Kasich's home town of McKees Rocks, PA.
Now to be fair, standing out among the kiddie rides, games and food vendors at the fair myself yesterday, I did wish there was a little more shade. And trees would certainly be a nice solution to this problem. But as with most of Kasich's big ideas, he never stops to consider any of the details or to consult with any advisers before just blurting promises someone else will have to keep.
According to local nurseries, a single, 20 foot shade tree, installed, could likely start at $500. But Kasich expects them to donate these trees – costing possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars – to him for free? Designing the proper placement of these trees will need to be done by expensive experts and will require planning around all of the underground and overhead infrastructure like electricity and water lines and sky rides, not to mention all the transient infrastructure like tents and rides and stages accompanying the wide variety of events on the site? Will Kasich expect all of these experts to donate their time as well? And who will maintain the trees, cleaning up the leaves and keeping the trees trimmed? How much extra funding will the expo commission need to fund this ongoing maintenance?
Another quick thought: the The Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association (ONLA) regularly lobbies the state on behalf of their members. Are they and their members now under political pressure to show up and support Kasich's plan with their own dollars by donating trees? It seems to be a solicitation of a donation by Kasich, but outside of the campaign finance system. Kind of "shady" if you ask me.
Now I'm not trying to be a negative Ned here. I think we can all agree more trees is a nice idea. So is more shade at the Fair Grounds. But this whole plan – which Kasich seems to have just dreamed up on the spot without any input from anyone who actually knows anything about trees or fair grounds – reminds me of his big idea to put a new memorial on the Statehouse grounds, which he pushed forward against the advice of the people who maintain the Statehouse, without ever considering if the new monument might collapse the parking garage below it.
King Kasich commands it. Let it be done. And screw the cost, consequences or concerns of those who might actually be impacted by the decision.
You can see all of Kovac's videos of Kasich's day at the fair here, including this one of the Governor making his big announcement about the trees.
What an idiot.
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Considering his general disdain for the state fair (remember he wouldn't be caught dead sleeping in the barn last year?) and his general disdain for the citizens of Ohio, why should he care what the fairgrounds looks like? He certainly doesn't go out of his way to spend a lot of time there.
Maybe he can get his buddies at Diebold, American Greetings, and Bob Evans to donate the trees, since they have millions in state money already. Or how about the Koch brothers? Kasich's next campaign slogan could be "A vote for trees is a vote for me!"
John Kasich? He's sort of a man.
Describe him? That's hard… I don't know if I can.
He's shortish. And oldish.
And brownish. And mossy.
And he speaks with a voice
that is sharpish and bossy.
"People!" he said at the fair with a sneeze,
"I am the governor. I speak for the trees.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
And I'm asking you, sirs, at the top of my lungs:
How can I get some free shade trees
planted across the entire fairgrounds,
like nothing anybody's ever seen before?"
Retired Mercer
I think Kasich ought to ask Mitt for some of those trees from Michigan that grow to "just the right height."
ha! I had that in the back of my mind when I was writing the post but I completely forgot to put it in there. Thanks for mentioning it!
Anastasia P
What a blowhard. What an idiot. Anyone who has ever done a little bit of yardwork (I just pruned our condo's pin oak last week) knows that a ton of planning and resources needs to go into planting trees. Apparently, our gov. thinks he can wave his hand and Jesus will plant the trees, or something. He's an idiot.
Vintage Johnny Boy. Amateur like no other. How did this guy ever get a vote?
Red Rover
Courtesy of people who like the shape of the letter "R" more than a "D", "L", or "G". In the midst of an economic meltdown caused by companies like Lehman Brothers, Strickland managed to run a poor enough campaign to lose to one of their investment bankers.
A lot of Idiot republicans.
The vast majority of nurserymen in Ohio are Republicans, and I know of at least 2 that hosted fundraisers for Johnny, so I am SURE they won't mind kicking in some trees for him, especially since the nursery industry has been hit harder than most since 2008.


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In a rare moment the other morning I experienced something which I seldom do anymore at age 63. For but a few moments I was out of physical pain and I felt fully rested. I'm not sure exactly what all came together in this brief reprieve from aches and soreness, but something let the endorphin dogs out. I've not felt anything like this for years, even decades.
Through the miracle of pharmaceuticals, a prescription sleeping pill allowed me to sleep soundly for nearly 8 hours the night before. Yet by mid-morning, having done nothing more physically exhaustive than my usual early morning 30-minute walk, I felt so sleepy that I could hardly keep my eyes open. So I went in, laid down in bed and rested for about an hour.
As I started to rouse from that nap I became aware of how fully energized and remarkably pain-free I was feeling. It was as if some fairy-godmother who has been listening from afar about my physical complaints all these years finally decided to grant me a single wish and allowed me to experience something I haven't since I was a healthy teenager.
I endure pain to some degree 24-7. Nothing incapacitating but none-the-less aggravating and discomforting. There's the constant ringing in my ears from tinnitus. An annoyance that is most pronounced in the quite hours when your body wants to rest or sleep. Joint pain is becoming more pronounced in the ankles, wrist and shoulders and deteriorating discs in the spinal column in my lower back and at the nape of my neck is perhaps the most agonizing.
And then there's the headaches. Since I turned 40 I have become familiar with what migraine headaches are all about. True, debilitative migraines have been few and far a part thank God, but their pestering, milder side kicks remain on an almost daily basis. I hate to sound like a company spokesman but the only sure non-prescription pain reliever that battles this pain for me has been Excedrin.
A product recall back in January of this year pulled Excedrin from the shelves of stores with no notice of what was at issue or when the pain relief product would return. Initially I panicked, but fortunately my local CVS pharmacy stocked a generic substitute. I have since learned that Novartis, the global corporation that owns manufacturing rights issued a massive recall of Excedrin, No-Doz, Bufferin, and other products. It appears that there were complaints of chipped and broken pills and quality control issues at the packaging line resulting in mixed tablets. The good news for people like me is that the problem has been resolved and the stores should be stocking my pain relief antidote by October of this year.
Though the Excedrin has served my headache pain needs, it has a big drawback to it that effects my ability to sleep. The ingredients of Excedrin are aspirin, acetamenophin and caffeine. Yes, caffeine. The chemical we all pursue in the early morning to give us a lift. Fortunately (if such a thing can be seen as good fortune) my headaches occur in the morning rather than at night before I go to bed. Unfortunately, the headaches can begin too early, like 1am or 2am, and thus I am up the rest of the night time after taking this pain killer. Sadly too, frequent use of aspirin is believed to contribute to tinnitus. The need to relieve one ailment is a likely causal factor in creating two others.
Here's my dilemma today. Since forced into retirement back in October 2009, I no longer fall asleep easily from working all day. In the past my mind was always running a marathon but my exhausted body was often able to overcome bothering thoughts that might keep me awake. Today that's not true. Other than my morning walk I am seldom doing physical things, spending much of my time instead reading or writing material for my blog.
With physical exhaustion no longer a factor, I have a multitude of thoughts that are constantly competing for my attention that simply won't allow me to doze off and remain asleep for the required 6-8 hours specialists say we need to re-energize our bodies and minds. I have to drug myself every other night with a prescription-strength sleeping pill to avoid the mental distractions along with the multiple pains I mentioned above in order to get at least one full night of restorative sleep. Those other nights will have me awake until midnight or later only to finally doze off soundly about 3 or 4am. I discipline myself to not take a sleeping pill every night to prevent a possible addiction to them.
The affect all of this has on an aging body with some atrophied muscles and excessive weight leaves one longing for those days when we thought we would live forever. Kids today, as they did in my time and every other generation before, never think of losing their good health because, well, for the most part, it is something they have plenty of. Pain is short-lived because the younger body heals itself quicker when accidents occur. As we age though, bones, muscles and connective tissue deteriorate, allowing pain to become a by-product of this degeneration. Pain pills offer only temporary relief and can lead to addiction if a dependency develops as our pain threshold increases.
I have resolved that pain is something I am going to have to endure until I die. I'll continue to stay as physically active as I can but I have succumbed to the adage that you can't teach an old dog new tricks so starting any substantial exercise regime is unappealing. I paid the price years ago for thinking I was invincible and avoided taking better care of my body.
Too much booze, some illicit drugs when I was younger, partying too late, eating and drinking junk food and spending too much time in front of the boob tube have taken their toll on me. So fair warning for those young enough who may be reading this and thinking you have plenty of time to change from this type of lifestyle. Your body is capable of repairing itself to normal levels only so long. Once you go past the point of no return – usually by your late twenties – you will fight an up hill battle for the rest of your life to stave off the pain that comes with age. And if you expect there to be some miracle treatment or pill to overcome the inevitable, be prepared to have the best (and most costly) insurance in the world or a healthy savings account to offset the expense that such treatments or pills will cost. But I have learned that such hopes are mere wishful thinking; one which keeps pharmaceutical companies and health organizations in constant pursuit of fulfilling the perennial human desire to live healthier, longer lives.
I think too that there will be few people who want to live beyond 80, 90 or 100 because life's gifts and surprises have pretty much been revealed by then and everything after that is redundant. I think Solomon, the alleged wisest man of his time got it right centuries ago when, late in his life, he noted that "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Nope, for me it's "let's get past this one" and see if indeed there is something on the other side of human existence. I am not an overly religious person but I do like to believe that death is only a transitional stage to an ongoing life of some form. It would be nice though that if at the next level, we find ourselves absent of much if not all of the pain that comes from living too long.


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PORTLAND – There are usually a lot of community dinners for the homeless on Thanksgiving, but Charles Jones said that's not always the case on Christmas.
"People want to spend a little more time with their families," Jones, who is staying at the city of Portland's Oxford Street Shelter, said Tuesday.
That's why the dinner put on for the homeless Tuesday, with a special emphasis on homeless veterans, at the Portland Boys and Girls Club, was a destination for Jones and about 300 others.
The diners were provided with a warm and welcoming location, along with turkey and ham dinners with all the fixings, including coffee and pie for dessert.
The dinner was the idea of Jake Myrick, a veteran and the athletic director at the club, who encountered a homeless veteran panhandling on a street corner near Deering Oaks in the fall of 2008. He bought the man a meal, but it struck him that there were probably dozens more like that man around the city.
"You see the need," he said. "You go by every corner and there are people out there holding a sign."
He thought about organizing a Thanksgiving meal that year, but there wasn't enough time. So Myrick enlisted family members to help him pull together something for Christmas.
The first year, about 125 meals were served. That grew to about 300 last year and at least that many were expected this year, with an additional 80 meals taken to Milestone, a foundation that provides an emergency shelter and services to substance abusers.
While the meal is served starting at 5 p.m., Myrick said, he makes sure that the doors to the club open around midday, so that people can come in, get warm, play games and socialize.
That's a way to make sure "the spirit of giving, the spirit of Christmas is alive for that whole day," Myrick said.
There are a lot more volunteers now than the first year, and plenty of support, he said. While Myrick and his family members had to chip in to help buy the food for the first event, Hannaford supplies the food now, and Oakhurst Dairy provides milk.
Bill Huntington, who helped with the cooking and serving Tuesday, said he's happy to give up part of what for most is a day off with family to help others. He said his sister, who lives in Bangor, takes her kids to a soup kitchen there on Christmas.
"It's becoming a tradition for us," Huntington said. His family, he said, "has a greater appreciation for what we have" by helping those less fortunate.
This year's event has a special poignancy for the Myricks.
John Myrick – Jake's nephew and one of the first people he called on to help with the first dinner – will be going to Afghanistan in less than two weeks for his company, a military contractor that supplies defensive weapons for military bases there. John Myrick will be responsible for helping to train those who will operate the weapons, as well as make sure they're being installed and maintained correctly.
John Myrick, his wife, Maranda, and their daughter Lily – who will turn a year old five days after her father leaves for the Mideast – flew to Maine from Alabama a few days ago to help out with the meal.
Although they took the opportunity to see family members, John Myrick said at the club Tuesday, the dinner "was more or less the main reason for coming here this Christmas. With me going to Afghanistan and this being my daughter's first Christmas, I knew it would be special. Making it (the dinner) bigger makes my Christmas even better."
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October 27, 2017, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM @ Sammons Community Center
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Mr. McWalter: Will my hon. Friend bear in mind that consumer groups may end up with additional responsibilities and potentially significant financial problems as a result of those new responsibilities unless their resource base increases substantially?
Miss Johnson: That is conceivable, but it is for consumer groups to prioritise their resourcing of both time and money and to decide what their priorities are. If there were a general area of difficulty in the way in which a market was working and such a consumer group were able to proceed with a super complaint, which one would expect it to pursue successfully in such conditions, that would reduce its work load in a number of other ways and increase public interest in supporting it. The NCC's submission makes it clear that it is keen to be designated.
Mr. Waterson: If I may say so, Mr. Beard, one or two hon. Members have got a little overheated and perhaps even grumpy about the effect of amendment No. 20, which the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East characteristically put into context.
There are plenty of safeguards before such a provision would kick in. First, there is the designation process about which we are shortly going to talk. I hope that the Secretary of State will designate precisely those consumer bodies to which I referred earlier, namely professional, long-established, well-supported, thoroughly responsible bodies that are already active in the field.
Secondly, the business of frivolous and vexatious complaints is another red herring because we are all confident that the OFT would dismiss those out of hand and the most that would be generated would be a short exchange of correspondence with the company.
Miss Johnson: Does the hon. Gentleman accept that such complaints are unlikely to be put before the OFT? I agree that they should be dismissed quickly by the OFT and not pursued, but does he accept that it is highly unlikely that they would ever be brought?
Mr. Waterson: It is a chicken and egg situation, because we do not know what bodies will be designated. During our forthcoming debate, we shall press the Under-Secretary for a clue as to who will be the lucky winners of the lottery. I hope that there would not be such complaints, but if there were, they could be dealt with quickly and at minimum cost to anyone, which is what they would deserve.
Column Number: 101The absolute worst-case scenario would be costs incurred over a 90-day period. We believe that the period should be shorter at 60 days and the CBI would like 30 days, but three months should be the maximum. The amendment is sensible, but in a spirit of amity and with the wish to make progress, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Mr. Waterson: I beg to move amendment No. 21, in page 5, line 17, leave out from 'body' to 'such' in line 19 and insert
The Chairman: With this it will be convenient to take amendment No. 22, in page 5, line 18, after 'consumers', insert
Mr. Waterson: I hope to deal with these amendments quickly. They concern the designation process and precisely which bodies are designated. Amendment No. 21 is a probing amendment to draw from the Under-Secretary the sort of bodies that might be designated. It is easy to make a quick list of three or four, but we are interested in how many more there might be. We have already heard from the National Consumer Council, which rightly considers itself a prime candidate, and the Under-Secretary may want to put some of the organisations out of their misery today.
We have heard from the Consumers Association, which is a likely candidate, and it would be surprising, to put it mildly, if it were not on the final list. Other bodies such as the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux would like to be on the list and deserve to be, but have not had a nod or a wink so far. The Under-Secretary may wish to tell us more about that. The purpose of amendment No. 21 is to draw that out and the purpose of amendment No. 22 is to narrow the basis of selecting the organisations.
Clarification is needed of the standing and type of groups that we are discussing. The easiest way of doing that is for the hon. Lady to intervene and say that what the Government have in mind is to designate the following six organisations. We could then move on.
Miss Johnson: I am afraid that I cannot help the hon. Gentleman in that way.
Mr. Waterson: That is a shame, because I shall have to speak at inordinate length
Miss Johnson: I can help. Our intention is that super-complainant status will be granted only when a body asks to be designated. No body will be designated if it has not applied. The Secretary of State will publish criteria against which possible candidates will be assessed and we shall consult fully on those criteria. To give the hon. Gentleman some guidance, there are criteria for the designation of bodies in relation to the Stop Now Orders (E.C. Directive) Regulations 2001, which were approved last June, and we shall use similar criteria as a starting point.
Column Number: 102The Secretary of State will also issue guidance on the application procedure and it will be possible to amend the list of designated super complainants if they meet all the criteria I mentioned.
Mr. Waterson: I guess that that is helpful, except for the bodies that are waiting with baited breath. There will be lot of guidance flying around in the wake of the Bill. I shall work on the assumption—
Miss Johnson: Is the hon. Gentleman complaining about that?
Mr. Waterson: About what?
Miss Johnson: Guidance.
Mr. Waterson: One can have too much of a good thing in life, as we all know.
The amendments have a narrow ambit. Amendment No. 21 aims to ensure that the consumer organisations will have an effective, balanced and responsible approach. I have mentioned some organisations that would, on any view, fit those criteria. They are my criteria; the Under-Secretary tells us that there will be criteria, but will not hint at this stage who might fit them. It would be very difficult to justify if some of the organisations that I have mentioned were not designated pretty promptly under the procedure.
The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux says that it welcomes super complaints in principle and will consider requesting status as a designated consumer body. It goes on to say
I have already made that point. Amendment No. 22, which would insert
would slightly tighten the context in which the bodies would be designated.
I do not want to press the Under-Secretary unduly and no one will sue her if things turn out differently, but does she have some general notion of the number or size of bodies, or the kind of criteria, that might pop up in guidance? Otherwise, we are in effect talking about the matter in a vacuum. Some very good organisations, including NACAB, are keen to get on and be designated. Why not put them out of their misery?
Miss Johnson: I shall make a brief response, because I covered several of the hon. Gentleman's points in my intervention.
I emphasise that we will set out criteria and that there will be consultation. The hon. Gentleman could refer to the stop now orders regulations. He asked what sort of organisations we are talking about. The Secretary of State will need to be satisfied about the quality of consumer bodies to contemplate designating them. We want to ensure maximum flexibility in the designation process by using criteria rather than by including conditions in the legislation. That means that we can update the requirements later if necessary.
Amendment No. 22 is unnecessary. Clause 173 already contains a definition of ''consumer'', which is
Column Number: 103reflected in clause 11(9)(b). I therefore hope that the hon. Gentleman will not press the amendment.
On the nature of the bodies that will be involved, I think that it would be entirely wrong to start toying with the idea of which bodies might or might not be designated. I can tell the hon. Gentleman that we are looking for such things as capacity and track record in the appropriate area. We will use as our starting point the criteria set out in last June's stop now orders regulations, which are available to hon. Members.
Mr. Djanogly: Does the Under-Secretary countenance having single-issue bodies designated in any way, shape or form? For example, if there were a complaint about a particular product, 1,000 consumers unhappy with it might get together and form an association for the purposes of making a super complaint.
Miss Johnson: I have not envisaged such a thing.
Mr. Waterson: I do not want to detain the Committee, and we might discuss that matter in more detail later, but my hon. Friend raised an interesting point, which might need further examination. I am thinking of an issue over which I appeared on the ''Watchdog'' programme—rather than ''That's Life''—recently, the failure of the company Tempo, which is a retailer of electrical goods. It had taken money from many customers for its extended warranties—one is pressed to buy them when one buys something and does not understand how it works. Many customers were left high and dry because there were no arrangements of the sort found in more reputable and better-run companies, such as Dixons, where money was ring-fenced or backed by insurance. I have seen estimates of up to 100,000 people affected. One would imagine that such a group could come together for a single purpose relating to a practice of one company and then disband.
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Andy Burnham: I am interested in the argument that the hon. Gentleman has developed. Does he agree that single issue campaign groups, such as the Campaign for Real Ale, which campaigned for full pints, or the Football Supporters Association, which campaigned against ticket-pricing and merchandising policy at football clubs, can be extremely effective bodies in raising issues that affect a certain sector of industry?
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