Standing Committee

Definition: Standing Committee

Standing Committee

Noun

1. A permanent committee.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Standing Committee

Books

• Report of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, Suva, Fiji, 19-21 June 1989 (reference)

• Third Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish (Noumea, New Caledonia, 6-8 June 1990) : report [of the third meeting] (reference)

• House of Commons Standing Committee Debates: 1st Delegated Legislation (reference)

• Receiving the Vision: The Anglican-Roman Catholic Reality Today: A Study by the Third Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers (reference)

• An International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (1995): Recommendations of the International Standing Committee on Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1994 (reference)

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Business

Major investment decisions require consultation on the cabinet standing committee on public enterprises. (references)

The NPC also approved Zhu Rongji as Premier and former Premier Li Peng as the chairman of the NPC's Standing Committee. (references)

Government ministries and/or the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (China's Parliament) formulate policy on day-to-day issues. (references)

Civil Liberties

Australia

In June Members of Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs visited the six detention centers. (references)

Thailand

In January 1999, the House Standing Committee moved to consider a petition filed by a Senator requesting that the Foundation's activities be investigated. (references)

Armenia

During the year, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, and Youth Affairs worked together with the Yerevan Press Club and the international NGO Internews to bring the law into compliance with the Constitution. (references)

Economic History

China

When the NPC is not in session, its permanent organ, the Standing Committee, exercises state power. (references)

North Korea

A standing committee elected by the SPA performs legislative functions when the Assembly is not in session. (references)

North Korea

The SPA's standing committee also appoints judges to the highest court for 4-year terms that are concurrent with those of the Assembly. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

The Interparliamentary Permanent Standing Committee and its Interministerial Working Group on Human Rights Issues have begun tracking criminal investigations of torture. (references)

Thailand

The results of a government investigation into the 1991 disappearance of Labor Congress of Thailand president Thanong Po-an conducted by the House Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee have never been released to the public. (references)

Hong Kong

When the Standing Committee makes an interpretation of the Basic Law provisions concerned, the courts, in applying those provisions, "shall follow the interpretation of the Standing Committee." Judgments previously rendered are not affected. (references)

Political Economy

China

Ultimate authority rests with the 21 members of the CCP Politburo and, in particular, its seven-member Standing Committee. (references)

China

The March 1998 session of the NPC also approved Zhu Rongji's appointment as Premier and former Premier Li Peng's as Chairman of the NPC's Standing Committee. (references)

Kenya

The Government continued to limit the independence of its Standing Committee on Human Rights (SCHR), and the President continued to criticize nongovernmental human rights organizations (NGO's) for their alleged involvement in partisan politics. (references)

Political Rights

Laos

Activities of the standing committee are not fully transparent. (references)

Laos

The National Assembly chooses a standing committee generally based on the previous standing committee's recommendation. (references)

Taiwan

Two of the 11 members of the DPP Central Standing Committee are women, as are 11 of the KMT's 31 Central Standing Committee members. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The ACFTU chairman is a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. (references)

Japan

Standards were set by the Ministry of Labor and issued after consultation with the Standing Committee on Safety and Health of the Central Labor Standards Council. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "standing committee": obligatory standing committee. Additional references.

Chinese 

常�"會 . (various references)

Danish

SULF (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), franchise-kædes stående udvalg (franchise chain's standing committee), Det staaende udvalg for Landbrugsforskning (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Det Stående Udvalg for Indbyrdes Tilnærmelse af Medlemsstaternes Lovgivning om Aktive,Implantable Medicinske Anordninger (Standing Committee on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Active Implantable Medical Devices), Den staaende Komite for Landbrugsforskning (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Den staaende Komite for froe og plantemateriale henhoerende under Landbrug,Havebrug og Skovbrug (Horticulture and Forestry, Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), CPRA (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research). (various references)

Dutch

vaste commissie van de franchiseketen (franchise chain's standing committee), Permanente Commissie Documentaire Informatieverzorging (Standing Committee on Documentary Information Systems), Permanent Comite voor teeltmateriaal voor land-,tuin-en bosbouw (Horticulture and Forestry, Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), Permanent Comite voor onderzoek in de landbouw (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Permanent Comité voor teeltmateriaal en siergewassen (Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants), Permanent Comité voor Onderzoek in de Landbouw (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Permanent Comité voor de onderlinge aanpassing van de wetgevingen van de Lid-Staten inzake actieve implanteerbare medische hulpmiddelen (Standing Committee on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Active Implantable Medical Devices), PCOL (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), CPRA (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research). (various references)

Finnish

franchise-ketjun pysyvä yhteistyöelin (franchise chain's standing committee). (various references)

French

CPRA (Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Commission permanente des systèmes d'information documentaire (Standing Committee on Documentary Information Systems), commission permanente de la chaîne de franchise (franchise chain's standing committee), Comite permanent des semences et plants agricoles,horticoles et forestiers (Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), Comite permanent de la recherche agricole (Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), comité permanent statutaire (obligatory standing committee), Comité permanent pour les matériels de multiplication et les plantes ornementales (Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants), Comité permanent pour le rapprochement des législations des Etats membres relatives aux dispositifs médicaux implantables actifs (Standing Committee on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Active Implantable Medical Devices), Comité Permanent de Recherche Agricole (Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Comité permanent "renvoi aux normes". (various references)

German

Staendiger Ausschuss fuer das landwirtschaftliche,gartenbauliche und forstliche Saat-und Pflanzgutwesen (Horticulture and Forestry, Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), Staendiger Agrarforschungsausschuss (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Ständiger Ausschuss für Vermehrungsmaterial und Zierpflanzen (Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants), Ständiger Ausschuss für die Angleichung der Rechtsvorschriften der Mitgliedstaaten über aktive implantierbare medizinische Geräte (Standing Committee on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Active Implantable Medical Devices), permanenter Ausschuß (franchise chain's standing committee), CPRA (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research). (various references)

Greek 

Mόνιμη Eπιτροπή για τους Σπόρους προς Σπορά και το πολλαπλασιαστικό Yλικό για τη �"εωργία,τις �"ενδροκηπευτικές Kαλλιέργειες και τη �"ασοκομία (Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), Mόνιμη Eπιτροπή �"εωργικής `Eρευνας (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Μόνιμη επιτροπή για την προσέγγιση των νομοθεσιών των κρατών μελών σχετικά με τα ενεργά εμφυτεύσιμα ιατρικά βοηθήματα (Standing Committee on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Active Implantable Medical Devices), Μόνιμη επιτροπή για το υλικό πολλαπλασιασμού και τα καλλωπιστικά φυτά (Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants), διαρκής επιτροπή του δικτύου (franchise chain's standing committee). (various references)

Hebrew 

וע�"ת קבע (steering committee). (various references)

Hungarian

állandó bizottság (standing commission). (various references)

Italian

CPRA (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), commissione permanente della rete di franchising (franchise chain's standing committee), Comitato permanente per il ravvicinamento delle legislazioni degli Stati membri relative ai dispositivi medici impiantabili attivi (Standing Committee on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Active Implantable Medical Devices), Comitato permanente per i materiali di moltiplicazione e le piante ornamentali (Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants), Comitato permanente delle sementi e dei materiali di moltiplicazione agricoli,orticoli e forestali (Horticulture and Forestry, Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), Comitato permanente della ricerca agricola (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

常置�"�"�会 , 常任�"�"�会 , 常任�"�"� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じょうに�"いい�"かい, じょうに�"いい�", じょうちいい�"かい. (various references)

Pig Latin

andingstay ommitteecay

Portuguese

comitê permanente, comissão permanente. (various references)

Spanish

CPIA (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Comité permanente de semillas y plantones agrícolas, hortícolas y forestales (Horticulture and Forestry, Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), Comité permanente de semillas y plantas agrícolas, hortícolas y forestales (Horticulture and Forestry, Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture), Comité Permanente de Materiales de Reproducción y Plantas Ornamentales (Standing Committee on Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants), Comité permanente de investigación agrícola (SCAR, Standing Committee on Agricultural Research), Comité Permanente de Aproximación de las Legislaciones de los Estados Miembros sobre los Productos Sanitarios Implantables Activos (Standing Committee on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Active Implantable Medical Devices), comisión permanente de la cadena de franquicia (franchise chain's standing committee). (various references)

Swedish

franchisesystems marknadsråd (franchise chain's standing committee). (various references)

Misspellings

"Standing Committee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: standing committe. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: domesticating, miscegenation, sedimentation.

-5 letters: cementations, commentating, decongestant, segmentation, semidominant.