Upon ratifying an international agreement, countries become "Parties" to that agreement Ratification: Ratification defines the international act whereby a state indicates its consent to be bound to a treaty In the case of multilateral treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol, the usual procedure is for a depositary to collect the ratifications of all states, keeping all parties informed of the situation The institution of ratification grants states the necessary time-frame to seek the required approval for the treaty on the domestic level and to enact the necessary legislation to give domestic effect to that treaty In Canada, Cabinet approval is required for ratification
The parties are the people or groups that are involved in the dispute "Third parties" are people who are not involved in the dispute but who help resolve it Mediators, facilitators and judges are "third parties" in a dispute
The entities whose rights and obligations are intended to be controlled by this CPS These entities may include certificate applicants, IAs, subscribers, and relying parties (See USER; ISSUING AUTHORITY; RELYING PARTY)
The Transmission Provider and the Transmission Customer receiving service under this Tariff
persons, corporations, or associations who have brought a lawsuit or who are defendants
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Any two entities, such as a Transmission Provider and a Transmission Customer, entering into a contract for services between them Peak Demand or Peak Load The electric load that corresponds to a maximum level of electric demand in a specified time period For billing purposes, many utilities measure the highest level of consumption during a 15 or 30-minute time period in a month and divide it by a quarter or half-hour to derive an averaged peak demand for that month This is not to be confused with the instantaneously high (and typically brief) demand in kilowatts that occurs when a device is first started
The parties are the people who are involved in the dispute Most parties are disputants--the people who are in conflict with each other Other parties--often called "third parties,"--are parties that intervene in the dispute to try to help the disputants resolve it Mediators and judges, for example, are third parties
The persons who are actively involved in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding, including the plaintiff or prosecution, the defendant and any "third party defendant