Drug company and medical trade associations also demand that their members conform to voluntary codes of conduct.
On Feb. 9, 2006, the European Union asked for a voluntary code of conduct to prevent offending Muslims.
The EPA has been in negotiations with the silicone industry to come up with a voluntary agreement to conduct that assessment.
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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.
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.
Larry Craig and his legal team are seeking to withdraw his voluntary guilty plea for disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.
"What I want to make sure is that collectively we conduct a mapping exercise first off of the voluntary sector of who is providing what, " he said.
There will be a code of conduct and minimum training standards, but it will remain voluntary.
The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights was established in 2000 as a code of conduct for oil, gas, and mining companies, to maintain the safety of their staff and assets while avoiding human rights violations.
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Rather, because these programs provided both protection from criminal prosecution and a potentially favorable civil penalty structure, even taxpayers whose conduct did not evidence the willfulness necessary to support a criminal prosecution made voluntary disclosures to attain certainty regarding their civil exposure.
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