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... company litigation it can be in the United States and cases about interpretation of the Product Liab... Directive 85/374 limit the possibility for Member States to define the liability of persons who use ... and is still within the member states' competence. . As a result, it will depend on the member state...
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Legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations
Privileges and Immunities 1. Special Court for Sierra Leone—Legislative authority for the issuance of laissez-passer—Discretion of the Secretariat—Article VII of the Convention on the Privileges and immunities of the United Nations, 1946—Definition of “official” of the United Nations—General Assembly resolution 76(I) of 7 December 1946—Privileges and Immunities of members of the International Court of Justice—General Assembly resolution 90(I) of 11 December 1946—Independent judicial institution established by bilateral agreement
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)—Searches of United Nations vehicles —“Search” of or “interference” with property or an asset of the United Nations—Coopera...
... resolution 76(I) of 7 December 1946, which states the following:. “. . . the categories of officia... in examining matters within its competence”. Accordingly, if it so wishes, the Council could i...
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LGBT people in some EU member states still suffer from violations of their basic fundamental rights to safety, peaceful assembly and are restricted in their ability to move freely across the EU," said [ILGA-Europe] Executive Director Evelyne Paradis. "Some member states are single-handedly blocking the adoption of a new anti-discrimination directive which would level up the protections available to various communities, including LGB people, from discrimination in the areas of EU competence...
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...TAX NONDISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION . States may be accused of... (TFEU) to prevent tax discrimination by EU member states. (11) Explicit prohibitions of tax discrimi..., without exceeding their institutional competence, help advance any of the alternative benchmarks by...
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General review of the legal activities of the United Nations
Disarmament and related matters
(a) Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues
(b) The Biological and Chemical Conventions
(c) Conventional weapons issues
(d) Regional disarmament activities of the United Nations
(e) Terrorism and disarmament
(f) Outer space and disarmament
(g) Human rights, human security and disarmament
Other political and security questions
(a) Membership of the United Nations
(b) Legal aspects of peaceful uses of outer space
(c) United Nations peacekeepers
(d) Peacekeeping operations and other United Nations missions
(e) Action by Member States authorized by the United Nations Security Council
(f) Security Council Committees
Environmental, economic, social, cultural, human...
...Recommendation 8. Regulatory competence should be entrusted to functionally independ...
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... CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OF THE SMALLER MEMBER STATES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL POWER POLITICS A. The... with the EU's general objectives, competences, and institutional framework; (71) . * Part II inc...
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... of franchised outlets in the United States, based on a 2009 IFA Franchising Survey conducted ... drafting process, one drafting committee member argued that the committee's time would be better s... risks violating his or her duty of competence. . Carl E. Zwisler, a former IFA Genera/ Counsel, ...
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As of this writing, non-US companies using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are permitted to list their securities on US stock exchanges without reconciling those statements to US GAAP. In February 2010, the SEC stated that US issuers would not be required to employ IFRS until 2015 at the earliest. The SEC further stated that it would vote in 2011 whether to go forward with a mandate to employ IFRS solely or to allow firms to use either IFRS or US GAAP. A survey was sent to a random sample of 2,000 AICPA members employed by public accounting firms that have substantial publicly traded companies as clients. When asked about the comfort level with their own current IFRS knowledge, respondents generally did not think that they had the current competence level to effective...
... generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) and International Financial...
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... for the political self-determination of states, and whether cosmopolitanism can account for the b... with Nagel that duties of justice are membership dependent. (5) We do not owe duties of justice to ... to assume a context of institutional competence to comprehensively affect the well being of the le...
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... the prevailing view that the United States acts exceptionally by examining the insufficiently... Union and its relationship with its member states arise. Developing country exceptionalism fl... its member States have transferred competence in respect of matters governed by [the agreement] ...