Commission

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Commission or commissioning may refer to:

Business and contracting

• Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered
  • Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of another
• A contract for performance or creation of a specific work
• Commissioning (disambiguation), a process or service provided to validate the completeness and accuracy of a project or venture

Government

Civil

• A government agency, regulatory agency or statutory authority which operates under the authority of a board of commissioners, including:
  • Independent agencies of the United States government
• An executive branch of government, often with characteristics of other branches of government:
  • Town commissioners, elected local government bodies established in urban areas in Ireland in the 19th century
  • City Commission, a form of local government (common in the United States)
  • The European Commission, a body incorporating features of an executive branch of government and a civil service
• Presidential Commission (United States), a type of high level research group
• Royal Commission, a form of public inquiry
• Public service commissioning, the process of identifying an area's need for public services and then designing and securing the services to meet the need
  • Clinical commissioning groups, 135 NHS organisations in England responsible for commissioning healthcare
  • Commissioning support units, which provide regional support for Clinical commissioning groups

Military

• Commission (document), a document given to commissioned officers
  • Commissioned officer, who derives authority directly from a sovereign power; contrast with warrant officer and non-commissioned officer
  • Purchase of commissions in the British Army
• Ship commissioning, placing a warship in active military duty

Other uses

• Great Commission, a tenet of Christian theology given by Jesus to spread his teachings
• The Commission (American Mafia), the governing body of the mafia in the United States
• Commissioned (gospel group)
• Commission of a crime, in law

See also

• All pages with titles containing Commission
• Commissioner
• Decommission (disambiguation)
• The Commission (disambiguation)
• Letters patent, an open letter issued by a government granting an office or other status to someone or some entity

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