Adoption is governed by the Family Services Act, and the department statistics indicate a consistency in the area of adoption of infants and private adoptions.

As a general rule, there are public adoptions and private adoptions.

This is the only way we will be able to prevent problems such as: 1) commercial adoption, or, in other words, private adoption involving the relinquishment of rights to the child before the family courts, most frequently for payment

134. Takes note of the fact that transnational corporations increasingly rely on private military and security companies (PMSCs), which on occasion has given rise to human rights violations perpetrated by PMSC employees; considers that the adoption of EU regulatory measures, including a comprehensive normative system for the establishment, registration, licensing, monitoring and reporting by such companies, is necessary; calls on the Commission to propose a Recommendation paving the way for a directive aimed at harmonising national ...[+++]measures regulating PMSC services, including service providers and the procurement of services, and the drafting of a Code of Conduct paving the way for a Decision regulating the export of PMSC services to third states; calls for detailed information to be provided by the VP/HR to Parliament on the hiring of PMSCs on CSDP and Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) missions, specifying professional requirements and corporate standards demanded of contractors, applicable regulations, legal responsibilities and obligations imposed upon them and monitoring mechanisms;

The new parameters laid down in the adopted report include keeping contractual freedom in negotiations between private enterprises, but imposing time limits (30 + 30 days); setting the term within which public authorities must pay private enterprises at 30 days; and introducing a new rule for large corporations – such as those operating in the postal service, energy and transport sectors – which compete with private companies even though they are publicly funded, in that they are equated to private companies and are therefore subjec ...[+++]t to the rules of the private market.

3. Considers that, in the case of contractual PPPs, a prior public sector comparator and a value for money analysis are necessary for the public sector when launching a PPP project; considers furthermore that this category of PPPs, which should be understood in the wider sense of concessions, so as to include contracts whose object is the provision of public services requiring the carrying out of infrastructure works and where the majority of the concessionaire's revenues derives from direct payments by public authorities, the legal instrument which defines the guidelines should address the stage of the selection of the private contractor and shou ...[+++]ld standardise several examples of best practice - which should not, however, be binding - for public authorities and private operators; considers that these guidelines should also set out the principles which are applicable to the contractual framework following the awarding of the contract, by taking a proscriptive approach and indicating which kinds of conduct or contractual provisions conflict, or risk conflicting with the principles of Community law; futher considers that these guidelines should contribute to a well-balanced and fair share of profit and risk between public and private partners, preventing unacceptable damage to the public; lastly, considers that the Commission should provide examples of best practice in risk sharing between the public and private sectors;