Having an adviser outside the rules of the civil service paid for by undeclared donors is almost certainly a breach of ministerial rules.
The regulator said that Npower's breach of the rules was "at the lower end of seriousness".
Not surprisingly, Mr Chirac says Germany deserves leniency despite its repeated breach of the rules.
Military officials said it was a breach of the rules to use the uniform to promote non-military causes.
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That is tough in a downturn: most countries inside the euro area are already in breach of these rules.
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Adebayor's suspended two-match ban will only be activated if there is a similar breach of FA rules before December 2010.
It was compulsory and I would have been reported for a serious breach of the rules if I tried otherwise.
Ofcom also found the channel to be in breach of these rules.
In a letter to Mr Cameron, the watchdog said a "large number of commentators" raised concerns about a possible breach of the rules.
The former chairman of the Fire Service, William Gillespie, challenged a report that criticised the board for awarding bonuses in breach of departmental rules.
Mr Gillespie told the health committee that four payments were made and because this was below the designated amount was not a breach of departmental rules.
Williams was found guilty on three counts, in that he communicated information for reward, aided and abetted a breach of the rules, and misled an investigating official.
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The FSA said Kensington's poor treatment of its customers had not been the result of a deliberate or reckless breach of the rules on treating customers fairly.
"Because the horses involved weren't racing at the time, I did not realize that what I was doing was in breach of the rules of racing, " he said.
This, according to Amazon, is in breach of the rules.
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Mr Laws claimed thousands of pounds in rent and bills over three years while staying in a London property owned by his male partner in breach of the rules banning such arrangements.
Mr Ross stepped down as director of Carphone Warehouse, which he co-founded, after it emerged that he had used millions of pounds worth of shares as collateral against personal loans without informing the company's other directors - a potential breach of City rules.
"To change the course in order to help some of the teams with a performance problem caused by their failure to bring suitable equipment to the race would be a breach of the rules and grossly unfair to those teams which have come to Indianapolis with the correct tyres, " the FIA said.
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The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, threatened to take action over what could have been a breach of EU competition rules.
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It advised Channel TV to "take particular caution" given it was the second time the show had been found in breach of its flashing images rules.
The FA's solicitors have written to news outlets to state the recording was obtained illicitly and that any publication of its contents would be a breach of Press Complaints Commission rules.
They say that if there was a breach of the FSA's rules, it was an oversight.
That would breach one of the few intact rules of global finance, that banks never let foreign subsidiaries fail.
In 2009 the Pentagon realised that a breach of the Nunn-McCurdy rules on over-budget defence-procurement programmes was inevitable, because costs would exceed the original baseline by more than 50%.
He said he accepted that he did breach the rules but claims the Council of Ministers put pressure on him to resign.
The pair from Swindon, Wiltshire, exported 750 tonnes of waste to Brazil, in breach of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development rules.
Companies could be fined up to 2% of global annual revenue if they breach new data protection rules proposed by the European Commission that aim to simplify the laws and reduce red tape.
In practice, Germany does not always take an absolutist view: it was one of the first countries to breach the euro's rules on deficits, and its debt-to GDP ratio is close to the euro-area average, higher than that of wobbly Spain.
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Bank leaders suggest that lending targets for what might be weaker businesses could breach rules that say any decision should be in the best interest of shareholders.
But Germany has stopped short of that in its proposals and asks rather for sanctions for those that breach deficit rules to be written into the treaty.
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