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There are a large number of players in the market, including supermarket chains, supermarkets in department stores, convenience shops, food stores and household product stores.

[...] supermarkets / convenience stores would be different [...]

[...] [...] supermarkets and convenience stores, to ensure that [...] [...]

In this connection, the police's policy is to strike a balance by facilitating all lawful and peaceful public order events while taking responsibility to reduce the impact of such events on other members of the public to ensure public safety and order.

These members considered that while facilitating the expression of views by demonstrators, it was also the Police's responsibility to maintain public order and ensure the safety of other people.

Notwithstanding the date on which the Agreement comes into effect, if from the date of this Agreement there is any repeal or amendment to the APCO (other than pursuant to the Government’s proposal to amend the APCO to cap the emissions of the Pollutants and to facilitate the use of emissions trading as described in a Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs Paper reference CB(1) 418/07-08(07) dated 17 December 2007 (“Legislative Proposal”)) or any renewal of or change to any Specified Process Licence (other than to the amount of the Initial Cap or pursuant to the Legislative Proposal), which has a material effect on the Mechanism or HEC’s emissions performance or compliance with the Total Permissible Emissions, the Mechanism shall not apply to that Applicable Year and any subsequent Applicable Years until HEC and the Government have reached agreement as to the amendments to this Schedule that are required to give continued effect to the Mechanism.

(k) Generally to purchase take on lease or in exchange hire or otherwise acquire any real and personal property and any rights or privileges which the Company may think necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business and in particular any land buildings easements machinery plant and stock-in-trade.

[...] [...] factories, warehouses, electric works, shops, stores and other works and conveniences that may [...] [...]

[...] [...] responsibility to facilitate peaceful [...] [...]

(i) To establish and support or aid in the establishment and support of associations institutions funds trusts and conveniences calculated to benefit employees or ex-employees of the Company or its predecessors in business or the dependants or connections of such persons and to grant pensions and allowances and to make payments towards insurance and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any exhibitions or for any public general or useful object.

(29) To purchase by any other means acquire other property for any estate or interest whatsoever and any rights privileges or easements over or in respect of any property and any buildings, offices, works, machinery, plant or things and any personal property or rights whatsoever which may be necessary for or may be conveniently used with, or may enhance the value of any other property of the Company.

Notwithstanding this, the smaller banks are feeling under pressure, and during the interviews they mentioned a number of ways in which they thought that the HKMA could assist them – for example, by promoting better recycling of funds during IPOs; by encouraging wider sharing of default data (including by the larger banks) to enable better calculation of default probabilities and facilitate a move by the smaller banks to IRB; by establishing a team of specialists who could provide guidance to those banks seeking to enter the Mainland market; by taking a leadership role in promoting the training of local staff (e.g. in compliance skills); and by not imposing requirements on best practice which are inappropriate to the size of the bank.

The minimum disclosures expected in formal quarterly reports were set out in the proposed Consultation Conclusion Paper so that listed issuers could plan and take the necessary steps to equip themselves with the resources and system enhancement necessary to produce the formal quarterly reports when they became mandatory.

This proposal will facilitate hostile acquisitions by listed issuers and help address the practical difficulties in preparing circulars where information on the target company is not publicly available or otherwise accessible.

To facilitate the food trade to understand and comply with the new scheme, the CFS has also conducted a number of trade facilitation measures, including the distribution of Technical Guidance Notes on Nutrition Labelling and Nutrition Claims, uploaded frequently asked questions (FAQs) onto the CFS website, set up telephone enquiry service for the trade, developed a web-based nutrition label calculator and organised workshops for the local trade.

[...] [...] investment, financial and other transactions and dealings of various nature and obtaining services, products, information, goods, benefits and privileges from us and/or Associate.