Mr Rowe also called on Home Secretary Jack Straw to overhaul the police complaints system and said he should replace the current "pals investigating pals" system with one in which truly independent agencies - such as Customs or the DSS - investigate complaints about the police.
Smaller parts of the state apparatus find it hard to assert themselves against some of the big and powerful ones, such as the customs service.
But countries that want to clamp down on tax evasion, protect their national language, or deter such foreign customs as forced marriage, should do so through specific laws tailored to these ends, rather than relying on the symbolic power of citizenship.
Rockefeller and other critics of the industry say that cruise lines that are headquartered in the United States but have their ships registered elsewhere are getting a free ride on the backs of U.S. taxpayers, placing demands on federal agencies such as Immigration, Customs and the Coast Guard, which are charged with oversight when those ships enter and leave U.S. ports.
"Clearly there are some worrying trends, such as the fact that Customs and Excise have now investigated 101 cases this year and it was only one case three years ago, " he told BBC News Online.
His group said such phones violate Islamic teachings and tribal customs as Indian and Pashto songs were often stored on such phones and that the cameras may encourage the violation of purdah, as women could be photographed.
Some of the customs, such as gift-giving, may have influenced Christmas traditions.
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The Director-General also suggested that institutions such as Interpol, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and others assist in the implementation of such a ban.
State laws can be widely different regarding such crucial considerations as child custody customs and division of marital assets, including whether or not an ATRO is part of the process.
How genuinely Christian, then, were many of those whose graves have been revealed by archaeologists to contain more signs of pagan burial customs (such as grave goods) than of Christian ones?
Many developing countries, including India and Pakistan, say they will not even discuss an agenda for further liberalisation unless they are granted some leeway in implementing previous commitments in such areas as intellectual property and customs practices.
Ms Reding cited examples where data could be shared with non-EU countries, such as data transfer between competition or customs authorities.
Economists in the French Enlightenment (like Jacques Turgot) and the Scottish Enlightenment (like Adam Smith) recognized that essential human institutions such as language, culture, legal customs, mutual aid societies and markets develop spontaneously when governments get out of the way.
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And we have expanded our interagency task force to include enforcement partners such as the FBI and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, along with many other Federal agencies.
Chinese shadow puppetry also passes on information such as cultural history, social beliefs, oral traditions and local customs.
In Anchorage, Alaska, a group was planning to converge on city hall to hold a carol-singing protest in defence of Christmas customs they believe to be under threat, such as the habit of wishing someone "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".
The Angklung is closely related to traditional customs, arts and cultural identity in Indonesia, played during ceremonies such as rice planting, harvest and circumcision.
Warlords such as Ismail Khan, operating out of the western province of Herat, siphon off customs revenue at source, sending only a fraction of the receipts to Kabul.
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Beatriz Nofal, of Eco-Axis, a Buenos Aires business consultancy, points out that all the Mercosur countries, especially Brazil, have used such devices as tax credits on capital-goods imports, which break the principle of a customs union.
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