... including the legislation oftheEuropeanUnion for the protection of well-known trademarks, and judgments and decisions oftheEuropean Court of Justice concerning well-known trademarks and marks ... trademarks and clarifying how the laws are applied in specific cases For instance, on theEuropean side, study ofthe General Motors case1 8 or the Davidoff case1 9 helps the readers to understand how the ... Article 6bis ofthe Paris Convention, the Article 16 ofthe TRIPs Agreement, the Article andofthe Trade mark Directive, Article and 52 ofthe Community Trade mark Regulation, Article 75 ofthe Vietnamese...
... Council, the Commission, the national and regional parliaments oftheMember States, the Committee ofthe Regions, theEuropean Economic and Social Committee, the former Members oftheEuropean ... euro 1975: Continued membership ofthe EC Document 1.5: Declaration by the Heads of State or Government oftheMemberStatesofTheEuropeanUnion on The Ratification ofthe Treaty Establishing ... view, the attitudes of these nine Member States, as well as those of France andThe Netherlands, must be seen in light of their obligations under Article 18 ofthe Vienna Convention on the Law of...
... hundred and fifty meters are required for the distance between GMO and conventional maize and 300 m for GMO and organic maize In casethe landowner complies with these regulations andthe crops ofthe ... risks and a new problem specific to themember state advise accordingly TheEuropean Courts ruled on this question in thecaseof GMOs in the Land Upper Austria (Oberösterreich) [17] The Land had ... by the scope of application of Art 114 (5) TFEU They not go further than EU law because the authorization for the bringing on the market of a GMO does not preclude the regulation of uses at the...
... reference of a country not in the EU or EMU), a memberoftheEuropean Free Trade Association but not theEuropeanUnion or Monetary Union 33 The specific cases of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, ... most ofthe members of Euroland probably find that the interest rate decisions ofthe ECB are consistent with their national economic conditions most ofthe time, this may no longer be thecase ... andthe questioning ofthe long-term viability ofthe Eurozone as the prospect of a breakup ofthe euro is increasingly viewed as possible.” While the potential fiscal and political causes of the...
... preference of living in the UK (7.4%) andthe presence of family and friends in the UK (7.1%) (Figure 4) All respondents were asked to report their 'main' and 'other' reasons of immigration to the UK ... along with the increased resource investment in the NHS at the end ofthe last century resulted in an influx of doctors to the UK [6] Places available for the final part of Professional and Linguistics ... thousand [4] and sixteen thousand [5] It is in this context that we undertook the study Our objective was to provide a self-reported training and employment profile of non -European doctors in the...
... peoples of West Papua; the Naga and others in India; the Karen and Kachin in Myanmar; the Ainu of Japan; the Hmong peoples of Thailand and Vietnam; the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia; ... formation and largely excluded from the full rights enjoyed by citizens ofthestates that are the members of international society Understanding the reasons for this exclusion and how therightsof ... rightsofstates are therights that individuals have and indeed states derive their rights from those of individuals For Grotius, states are the moral equivalents of individuals in a state of nature.7...
... first, the displacement of natural law concerned with therightsand duties of humans everywhere by the positive law of states; and second, changing 21 European Conquest andtheRightsof Indigenous ... society ofEuropeanstates Their concern is then with the expansion of this European society ofstates ‘across the rest ofthe globe, and its transformation from a society fashioned in Europe and ... institutions and then export them to the rest ofthe world The evolution oftheEuropean system of interstate relations andthe expansion of Europe were simultaneous processes, which influenced and affected...
... that reflect their own understanding of themselves Their construction or account of what it is to be the other need not accord with the self-understanding ofthe other Nevertheless, the other may ... title over the lands of non-Europeans; whether non-Europeans were the rightful owners of lands they occupied; and about therights non-Europeans held against European sovereigns or states Several ... not therightsand interests ofstates into which these persons are now divided’.106 And again on the following page: The world common good is the common interest not of states, but of the...
... from the highest stage all helped justify the dispossession of non-Europeans andthe denial ofrights They also aided the development of theories ofthe state andofrights that supported European ... role of defining the normative foundations ofthe global society ofstates created by the expansion of Europe It defined and codified the terms for membership in the society ofstates It marked the ... through the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries In these theories the concepts ofthe ‘state of nature’ andof ‘natural rights had an important place and implications for nonEuropeans The...
... European Conquest andtheRightsof Indigenous Peoples otherness The parallels between the nineteenth-century notion ofthe other as fundamentally primitive andthe criteria ofthe standard of ... view ofthe late nineteenth century was that the acquisition of territory was a matter oftherightsofEuropeanstates against each other; therightsof nonEuropeans were over-ridden if their ... change the situation of indigenous peoples who had been dispossessed of their lands and both lost control over their affairs and were often denied the full rightsof citizenship The loss of these...
... judges, of cers and subjects’.144 In later cases the approach ofthe court differed andthe question ofthe status ofthe Treaty was finally settled with the 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act Of particular ... Nations andthe Universal Declaration of Human Rightsand this Declaration, on the basis of equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of all Statesand respect for the sovereign rightsof ... purposes and principles ofthe Charter ofthe United Nations’ Article then follows with the injunction that it is the duty of all states to ‘uphold the obligation to enforce the Charter ofthe United...
... Politics of Individual and Group Difference, p 12 179 European Conquest andtheRightsof Indigenous Peoples and Norman take up the question of ‘how emerging theories of minority rightsand multiculturalism ... also to cases such as the subjugation ofthe Scots andthe Welsh by the English to create Great Britain or to the actions of non-Europeans against other non-Europeans In addition to the circumstances ... by the drinking of another Man, though he took a good Draught, who had a whole River ofthe same Water left him to quench his thirst Andthecaseof Land and Water, where there is enough of both,...
... ofstates that set the criteria for membership and mutually recognise each other as full members The criteria fixed by the inner circle of membership articulate rules of legitimacy and norms of ... Conquest andtheRightsof Indigenous Peoples and accepting the presence of difference, the otherness ofthe other, without suspending their claim to truth’ We must be ‘open to what an “other” ... issues of resolving the tension between identity and difference, the one andthe many’.28 He neither discusses the meaning of identity and difference nor the nature ofthe tension between them...
... Social and Cultural Rightsandthe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights affirm thefundamental importance ofthe right of self-determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they ... affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their ... Declaration is a further important step forward for the recognition, promotion and protection oftherightsand freedoms of indigenous peoples and in the development of relevant activities ofthe United...
... Holsti The state, war, andthe state of war 50 Christopher Clapham Africa andthe international system The politics of state survival 49 Susan Strange The retreat ofthe state The diffusion of power ... Sovereignty and History in a Divided Culture: TheCaseof New Zealand andthe Treaty of Waitangi’, McGill Law Journal, 43 (October 1998) Pocock, John ‘Waitangi as Mystery of State: Consequences ofthe ... Myntti (eds.), Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights – 993 and After (Rovaniemi: University of Lapland, 1955) Todorov, Tzvetan The Conquest of America: The Question ofthe Other, New York: Harper...
... overview ofthe state of women’s health in theEuropeanUnionand addresses both the differences between men and women andthe differences among women living in different MemberStates It examines the ... Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, as shown in Table The main sources used in the preparation ofthe report include: - the Statistical Office oftheEuropean Communities (EUROSTAT 2009), - the Organisation ... Thirteen of these 22 countries exceeded the 2005 target ofthe World Health Assembly (target of 50% vaccination uptake in the elderly by 2005-2006), however, only two countries (the Netherlands and the...
... among the members oftheEuropeanUnion for the 32 offenses covered by the warrant, the common arrest warrant is a major step toward the creation of a single judicial area The judiciary of each ... permissive areas oftheEuropeanUnionThe groups and individuals named on the official EU terrorist list will now face identical criminal charges throughout theEuropean Union, andthe Framework ... assesses the ways in which NATO andtheEuropeanUnion are reforming their agendas to address the threat of terrorism andthe areas of mutual cooperation that will most benefit the United States...
... firm andthe client that set out therightsand obligations ofthe parties, andthe other terms on which the firm will provide services to the client Therightsand duties ofthe parties to the ... debt or by members oftheEuropean System of Central Banks performing their tasks as provided for by the Treaty andthe Statute oftheEuropean System of Central Banks andoftheEuropean Central ... ofthe names and numbers ofthe instruments bought or sold, the quantity, the dates and times of execution andthe transaction prices and means of identifying the investment firms concerned Member...
... protection ofthe interests of members and others, are required by MemberStatesof companies within the meaning ofthe second paragraph of Article 58 ofthe Treaty, in respect ofthe formation of public ... oftheEuropean Parliament andofthe Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data11 (26) The ... oftheEuropean Parliament andofthe Council of November 2002 concerning life assurance15 and Directive 2005/68/EC oftheEuropean Parliament and Council of 16 November 2005 on reinsurance and...