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Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Business/Commerce (general) | | Dutch term or phrase: in publieke handen | In a discussion of public utility ownership, it is stated that shares of certain utilities must be held "in publieke handen". Proposed translation: "must be owned by a governmental or quasi-governmental entity".
(Does not mean "must be available to and held by the public".) |
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| | "government-owned" or "publically owned" | Explanation:
Either of the two phrases will do. The proposed translation seems too wordy and "in publieke handen" usually refers to "government ownership" rather than simply "government-controlled." |
| Selected response from:
 Henry Jansen, Ph.D.
Netherlands
Local time: 08:49
| Grading comment Thank you. I think the discussion here points out the ambiguities which lie in wait.
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8 hrs confidence:   public control
Explanation:
In this context public also means government, so I suggest a literal translation of public would suffice.
Public:
4. of, pertaining to, or being in the service of a community or nation, esp. as a government officer: a public official.
5. maintained at the public expense and under public control: a public library; a public road.
www.dictionary.com
Last but not least, governments should be credibly committed not to interfere post-privatization in the operating activity of the companies. As a consequence, private ownership is likely to coexist with public control, at least in the near future.
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economic...
2. Recommendations on measures to be taken by states for development of effective **public control** mechanisms
In order to implement effective **public control** (oversight) within any law enforcement environment, steps must be taken to insure that the needs of the community, as well as the law enforcement agency, are going to be met. The model of oversight chosen must be one appropriate for the community, and there should be some form of legislation codifying the function, parameters and limitations of the particular type of oversight selected.
Debate Rages Over Who Will Run Iraq's Utilities
Privatization vs. public control emerges as key issue in shaping future of country
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0608-02.htm
Public Utilities. The term public utility has broadly the same connotation in Canada as in Great Britain and the United States: it is applied to an industry which provides the public in a given area with what are considered necessary services, and has, either through a relatively large initial investment or other conditions, the traits of a natural monopoly - traits which from early times in Great Britain and the United States inevitably tended to bring it within some special form of public control, judicial or administrative. The actual agencies of such control in Canada have been patterned upon those in the older states of the English-speaking world, of which the most important are the specific terms of a franchise, the supervision of rates and service by a public utility commission, and public ownership and operation. Significantly, public ownership and operation as instruments of control are more widely developed in Canada than in the neighbouring United States .
http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/Publ...
| Johan Venter
Local time: 08:49
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 14
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| | Notes to answerer
Asker: This seems to introduce new ambiguities.
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