First, national bureaucrats set a statutory minimum price that processors must pay farmers for sugar-cane.

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Research published last year by Mercer HR suggested there was a statutory minimum of 14 in Spain, 13 in Portugal, 12 in Greece, 11 in France, and nine in Germany and Ireland.

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"It is open to the individual state, to make statutory provision for the imposition of a whole life minimum term, and in an appropriate case, as a matter of judicial discretion, for the court to make such an order, " he said.

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The SEC will consider whistleblower culpability in decreasing the amount of any award, and may seek to negotiate awards below the 10% statutory minimum in settling any enforcement action against a whistleblower.

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As a minimum, they want control of the commencement orders, the subsequent statutory instruments under which the tax plan would be put into operation.

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