It starts with the voluntary Mutual Assistance Group, involving large numbers of neighboring utilities, and reaching into Canada.
This linguistically and culturally distinct community set up their own churches, schools, benevolent societies and mutual assistance lodges.
The network consists of voluntary agreements among electric utilities managed by Regional Mutual Assistance Groups (RMAGs) across the nation.
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It supplements and updates the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, dating from 1959, to which both countries are signatories.
The mutual assistance network was established more than a decade ago, but it has not proven to be especially effective in keeping the lights on in recent years.
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There are nine such Mutual Assistance Groups throughout North America.
For example, the Northeast Mutual Assistance group ranges from Hydro One in Ontario, to Hydro-Quebec and the eastern Canadian utilities, and down throughout New England to Rhode Island.
Coast Guard watchstanders also conducted Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue ( AMVER ) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) callouts to identify and notify commercial vessels transiting in the vicinity of the distress.
As pastoralists, the Irob had been relatively individualistic, except for some agreements on the use of common pasture, but their growing emphasis on building and repairing dams to allow cultivation led to an increase in mutual assistance.
The vehicle for this effort is a Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.
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Plus, the OECD Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters wasamended to allow non-OECD and non-Council of Europe members to join.
Applicant countries would do better to form mutual-assistance alliances among themselves.
The existing Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, done at Strasbourg on January 25, 1988, entered into force for the United States on January 4, 1995 (the "existing Convention").
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