But they are meant to be consultative bodies, not governing.

It is up to the policy to provide adequate procedures and consultative bodies in this respect.

They are consultative bodies which serve to advise them regarding pastoral issues.

Many are consultative bodies for more representative political bodies at all levels of government.

"We're ready to include them in staff-level planning through the establishment of consultative bodies.

In the interests of the greatest possible transparency on the issue, views are, however, being exchanged within relevant consultative bodies.

Nor did the Holy See as yet use them as consultative bodies, but all this was to come.

However, publishing details of consultative bodies is one thing, and, as I see it, accepting political responsibility for decisions is quite another.

The basin councils are not decision-making bodies, but are consultative bodies.

The White Paper talks about a cumbersome system of almost 700 consultative bodies supporting the Commission.

Consultative bodies.

The Council of the Revolution was replaced with two consultative bodies, linked to the office of the President.

Originally they were simply consultative bodies consisting of the region's parliamentary representatives plus an equal number of members nominated by the departments and municipalities.

Representative industrial democracy includes decision making structures such as the formation of committees and consultative bodies to facilitate communication between management, unions, and staff.

They are merely consultative bodies, and the primary intention of their foundation was to associate the laity in the deliberations of convocation.

Its advice was sought by all the parliamentary select committees involved in any way with the environment and it had a place on several of the government's consultative bodies.

Dr. Bhattacharya regularly participates in high-level consultative bodies of the Government of Bangladesh.

While serving in the Archdiocese of Newark, he was a member of the following Archdiocesan consultative bodies:

The Communion is held together by a shared history, expressed in its ecclesiology, polity and ethos and also by participation in international consultative bodies.

Two mutually independent consultative bodies, the Museum Board and the Advisory Board, sustain the work of the Museum.

This can include catechists, acolytes, lectors, initiation sponsors, pastoral care ministers, and members of parish and diocesean consultative bodies.

EDRC has a multi-layer governance structure that includes the General Meeting, Chairman, consultative bodies, executive office and the research team.

Under the supervision of Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, they are consultative bodies on district administration and affairs.

The response from the other consultative bodies was mixed; certain organizations criticised the entire motion and others certain aspects of it, while still others supported it without any objections.

About half of the archdiocese's 410 parishes now have parish councils, consultative bodies recommended in church law and widely instituted since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960's.

They are considered to be a national prime consultative body in Floor 2183.

But they are meant to be consultative bodies, not governing.

House of Commons too is seen as a mainly consultative body.

In 2005 the Government established a consultative body on religious education in public schools.

A new constitution also provided for a national assembly to serve primarily as a consultative body.

But at that time the Xunta did not hold real power; it was a consultative body only.

And the third would be a consultative body linking the three new regional assemblies.

No country has ever been suspended from the 41-nation consultative body, and the Russian delegation walked out after the vote.

Privatisation is to be pushed through without even the safeguard of a consultative body.

It is up to the policy to provide adequate procedures and consultative bodies in this respect.

Youth Council is a non-political consultative body for local government bodies.

It is the major federal-provincial-territorial consultative body for geographic information management.

After their defeat, Parliament was reduced to a mere consultative body.

It was retained as a consultative body by the British colonial rulers.

They are consultative bodies which serve to advise them regarding pastoral issues.

The creation of some form of consultative body had been promised since at least a year earlier.

As he proposed it, it would have been a consultative body, not a legislature.

Many are consultative bodies for more representative political bodies at all levels of government.

The conference serves as a consultative body only and does not make policy, although it can recommend that the bishops follow certain standards.

A standing consultative body made up of interested parties from all sectors to advise the Commission will be a useful thing.

During this period, Althing acted merely as a consultative body for the crown.

Advisory council: Rector's consultative body to foster links among university and community.

"We're ready to include them in staff-level planning through the establishment of consultative bodies.

Chapmanslade also has its own elected parish council of five members, which is almost entirely a consultative body.

The reductions in status of the Duma from a legislative to a consultative body illustrates this.