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The annual reporting requirements to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) legally oblige listed oil companies to state their proven reserves. 

Corporate Planning Forecast oil and gas prices Discount rates, hurdle rates Exchange rates Inflation forecast Market factors Political risk, social obligations... 

Suppose you have to meet an obligation to pay a bill of 10,000 in 5 years time. If you could be guaranteed a compound interest rate in your bank of 7% per annum (after tax) over each of the next 5 years, then the sum which you would have to invest today to be able to meet the obligation in 5 years time would be ... 

In the wide field of applications, a visibility level VL = 3 - 60 is recommended. For our recognition task, we are obliged to take into account that our random conditions are far from the experimental conditions of the basic researches (Young test person with a high visus under ideal environmental conditions) [4]. Furthermore in our case we have a more difficult visual searching task. Parameter variations as the increase of presentation time from 0,2 to 1.0 s. and the detection propability from 50% to 100% are taken into account [5] In spite of the gliding variations of the parameters as well as the visibility level, for simplification let us assume VL = 10 as minimum requirement. 

The use of these techniques is an important element of industrial policy since they contribute to the creation of a business friendly regulatory environment allowing the combination of measures taken for internal organisational reasons and obligations of certification without lowering the level of safety to be achieved. Wlienever possible a choice between product control and quality assurance procedures is offered to manufacturers. 

Under the New Approach Member States shall not prohibit, restrict or impede the placing on the market or putting into service of products which comply with the directives and bear the CE-marking. Member States have also the obligation to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the products placed on the market do not endanger the health and safety of persons. 

Where a Member State ascertains tliat a product, bearing the CE-marking and used in accordance with its intended use, is liable to endanger the safety of persons or health, it shall take all appropriate measures to withdraw such a product from the market. That Member State shall immediately Inform the Commission which is obliged to investigate whether or not the measure is justified. Where the Commission considers that the measure is justified, it shall immediately inform the Member State which took the initiative and also the other Member States. This entails that the other Member States must also take action against the product concerned. That latter disposition is referred to as the safeguard clause. 

The preliminary observations underline the manufacturer s responsibilities. He is obliged to analyse the hazards in order to identify those which apply to his equipment. He must design, manufacture and check his equipment to ensure its safety even with respect to their use under reasonably foreseeable conditions. In addition, the manufacturer must interpret and apply the essential requirements in such a way as to take account of the state-of-the-art at the time of design. That latter requirement underlines the evolutive character of the essential requirements which is inherent in the new approach. 

One is obliged to conclude that this method, like those which derive the cumulative surface area from pore size calculations, can be regarded as no more than ancillary to the BET or Point B methods. The few cases where reasonable agreement with the BET area is obtained are probably to be explained by compensation of opposing effects. 

The results of a comparison between values of n estimated by the DRK and BET methods present a con. used picture. In a number of investigations linear DRK plots have been obtained over restricted ranges of the isotherm, and in some cases reasonable agreement has been reported between the DRK and BET values. Kiselev and his co-workers have pointed out, however, that since the DR and the DRK equations do not reduce to Henry s Law n = const x p) as n - 0, they are not readily susceptible of statistical-thermodynamic treatment. Moreover, it is not easy to see how exactly the same form of equation can apply to two quite diverse processes involving entirely diiferent mechanisms. We are obliged to conclude that the significance of the DRK plot is obscure, and its validity for surface area estimation very doubtful. 

Clostridium. This geaus is comprised of a heterogeaeous assemblage of obligate, anaerobic, gram-positive, endospore-forming bacteria (21). 

Vimses are obligate intracellular parasites. They only exhibit activity by infecting other living organisms, thus they are not a practical concern in industrial microbiological fields. The exception is where viral contamination of the product or process represents a threat of transmission of disease. Microscopic insects and protozoans are also not addressed in this article (see Insectcontroltechnology). 

An alternative to patent protection for advances, developments, ideas, and appHcations is to treat such information as a trade secret. The protection of trade secrets reHes on the development of ideas, appHcations, and advances which are not found ia the pubHc domaia. Trade secrets, by defiaitioa, are kept ia coafideace by their owaer, dissemiaated only to those who accept an absolute obligation of confidentiaHty, and then only for purposes of which the trade secret owner knows and approves. 

Limiting access to trade secrets to those having an obligation to maintain it as confidential. 

Employees should be regularly briefed on the organisation s trade secret program. These briefings should be directed toward the clarification of issues, questions, and concerns. If an employee leaves the company, the organisation should remind the employee of its rights and that the obligations of confidentiaHty continue to bind the employee even after termination of employment. 

In short, trade secret information should be disseminated only when commercially necessary, only under obligations of strict confidentiaHty, and only with definite penalty provisions for improper use or further dissemination. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association Code. In 1988, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) adopted an initiative called Responsible Care A PubHc Commitment (33). Members of the CMA commit themselves, as an obligation of membership, to improving performance in response to pubHc concerns about the impact of chemicals on health, safety, and environmental quaUty. 

Under modern condition the ordinary layman...has neither the opportunity nor the capacity to inspect or to determine the fitness of an automobile for use he must rely on the manufacturer who has control of its construction, and to some degree on the dealer who, to the limited extent called for by the manufacturer s instructions, inspects and services it before delivery. In such a marketing milieu his remedies and those of persons who properly claim through him should not depend "upon the intricacies of the law of sales. The obligation of the manufacturer should not be based alone on privity of contract. It should rest, as was once said,... 

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