A.2.   The company is in compliance with all relevant international or local legislation and regulations (including, among others, health, safety, labor, and environmental aspects).

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International and local legislation and regulation address many of the social and environmental negative practices associated with tourism operations.  These include major labor conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO) covering freedom of association, no child labor, no forced or bonded labor, no discrimination, health and safety, work hours and minimum pay.  This criteria is not an alternative to government regulation and national labor legislation, rather it is a complementary instrument that fills voids in the application, adherence and enforcement of critical social and environmental protections.

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