This certification process has the purpose of identifying corporations that comply with certain criteria based on social accountability requirements, including criteria for child labor and worker health and safety.

Times of extraordinary prosperity in America periodically draw national attention to the nature and reach of private philanthropy, raising moral and legal questions about accountability, taxation, spending requirements and limitations on charitable giving.

Mr. Spitzer is proposing to increase state education spending by $7 billion annually within four years and to tie the increases to new accountability requirements for school districts.

What Congress thought to ensure was that all children be included in the accountability requirement.

Massachusetts charter schools appear to face more stringent accountability requirements than non-charter public schools.

As of 2006, a letter posted on Warnke's web site indicated the group had released him as having met their accountability requirements.

H.R. 3010 amends the Administrative Procedure Act to include strong cost-benefit, transparency, and accountability requirements.

In 1996, Congress implemented a number of new accountability requirements including competitive bidding for Legal Services Corporation grants.

Meanwhile, liberal Democratic stalwarts like Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative George Miller gamely resist efforts by groups like the teachers union to gut the law's accountability requirements.

The scientific community is urgently calling for harmonisation of the rules and procedures and for a general simplification of the financial accountability requirements.