Look up: subsidiarity

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   Subsidiarity
   The notion that decision-making should occur at the level at which the people most directly concerned can take responsibility.
   Found on http://www.greenconstruction.co.uk/gloss
   
   
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   Subsidiarity
   In the European Union, subsidiarity is a rule whereby action by EU institutions is only permissible if it is necessary to achieve the proper purposes of such action, i.e. if these purposes cannot be sufficiently achieved by institutions of individual States acting independently. Subsidiarity is an application of the principle of proportionality.
   Found on http://www.reckon.co.uk/open/Glossary
   
   
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   subsidiarity
   Devolution of decision-making within the European Union from the centre to the lowest level possible. Since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on European union 1991, which affirms that,...
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   subsidiarity
   the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function,performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level Category: Labour
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Subsidiarity
   `Subsidiarity` is the principle which states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or, the lowest) competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level. The concept is applicable in the fields of government, political science, cybernetics and man...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarit