11.   The agreement now gives state officials the legal footing to intervene if the company does not live up to its promises.

12.   The ECNs, meanwhile, have asked the regulators to put them on the same legal footing as the traditional exchanges.

13.   The Health Ministry immediately announced plans to put state provision of heroin to long-term addicts on a permanent legal footing.

14.   The health ministry immediately announced that it would try to put state distribution of heroin to hardened addicts on a permanent legal footing.

15.   The government argues that police are already conducting eavesdropping with judicial permission, and the legislation simply puts the existing practice on a legal footing.

16.   The Swiss put the heroin program on a permanent legal footing last year, four years after the first experimental distributions.

17.   He said legislation to put the new scheme on a legal footing would follow swiftly.

18.   But Lordkipanidze said that Georgia cannot agree to sign an agreement that places the rest of the country on an equal legal footing with the separatist region.