Currently, they are guided by a voluntary code that aims to tackle potential conflicts of interest.
The voluntary code, announced at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre, is designed to provide greater transparency in dairy contracts.
On Feb. 9, 2006, the European Union asked for a voluntary code of conduct to prevent offending Muslims.
Today I say unless a voluntary code works, we will legislate for it.
Andy Burnham, then the culture secretary, ruled out legislation banning touting last year, preferring the idea of a voluntary code of practice.
The council said it was an informative meeting and it would now look to draw up a voluntary code for the area.
In successfully seeing off these threats, the airlines have promised to treat their delayed passengers better, by following a voluntary code of conduct.
In practice, agreement on a voluntary code of conduct, which would probably need unanimous approval, may prove no easier to reach than agreement on the energy-tax directive.
Earlier this month UK dairy farmers and processing firms agreed a voluntary code of practice to help make contracts more transparent and develop "trust" within the industry.
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The Department for Transport has previously suggested that industry should come up with a voluntary code of conduct to ensure wholesale price falls were passed on within a fortnight to the motorist.
He pointed to the creation of a voluntary code of practice by trade associations, but said a compulsory registration scheme would simply regulate those in least need "while the cowboy continued to operate".
The proliferation of Manneken images in varying degrees of impropriety prompted officials at the Brussels City Museum several years ago to try creating a voluntary code respecting his likeness, which is in the public domain.
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The British Metal Recycling Association has launched a voluntary code of practice as part of its efforts to reduce the number of thefts but as the price of copper continues to rise, illegal ways of obtaining the metal will continue.
In recent months, the government has been putting pressure on the two sides to agree a voluntary code whereby copyright infringing sites could be blocked following an order from a judge, but without a lengthy case like the one we've just seen.
Dr Julius was commissioned by the Treasury to investigate the voluntary banking code after it was criticised in the far-reaching Cruickshank report in March last year.
The result of a committee set up two years ago, compliance with the code is voluntary until 2011.
The code is voluntary, and any lender breaking the rules would be told to change the way it worked or face expulsion from their association.
Mr Llewellin said he preferred reform of the voluntary Press Complaints Commission code and described the idea of a royal charter as "perverse" in the Scottish context.
Under a change made in March 2005 to the Banking Code, an industry-wide voluntary agreement, lenders were barred from sending unsolicited credit card cheques to customers with a pre-completed loan amount.
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There will be a code of conduct and minimum training standards, but it will remain voluntary.
Rather than a strict code of practice, the clubs propose 'customer charters' and voluntary guidelines which would be monitored by an independent "scrutiny panel".
Under the code, "problem gamblers" would be able to apply for voluntary orders banning them from bookmakers in the area.
New laws mean that new free schools and academies, if they are faith-based, have to limit their "faith intake" to 50% of the total if they are oversubscribed, whereas voluntary-aided schools can select pupils on the basis of their faith as long as they follow the Admissions Code, which sets out rules for England's schools.
The HBS students wanted to create a voluntary pledge that would deliberately echo the Hippocratic Oath as a step towards presenting management as a profession with its own code of conduct.
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