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Citizens rights and administrations' duties in environmental matters: 20 years of the Aarhus Convention
The article uses the 20th anniversary of the Aarhus Conventionon25 June 2018 to retrace the development of the Convention during these twenty years. For the three pillars of the Convention - access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters- it describes and assesses the main impacts which the Convention had on the situation of the...
... 20 This Directive was transposed into national legislation by all 28 Member States. The Commission did not take legal action against any Member State for incomplete or incorrect transposition or for badly applying the Directive. 21 ... Among other things, the ... -
Avoiding Claremont: Considtering Yet Another Constitutional Amendment
... amendment ... Legislators ... should not take my concerns personally Efforts to amend the ... state constitution persist because the state cannot pay all ... of its current bills ...
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Enhancing students' oral communication proficiency. A preliminary study on the use of anchor with tourism ESP learners
... In each case they are required to take into consideration the feedback given to them in the stage 4 ... Stage 5: A post-test which is a replication of the pre-test used in stage ...
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Abstract
... 44ET, of conventional terms, etc ) and we take into account the labour law, public employment one, that budget law, the regulations of the EU and a wide jurisprudential and judicial doctrine ...
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La solidaridad familiar en la responsabilidad cuasidelictual
The aim of this research is to deal with family unity in the sphere of quasi ex delicto. Our doubt lies with those cases in which the amount of peculium was insufficient to pay the damages. In our opinion, we should resort to the ancient system of family solidarity according to wich the paterfamilias takes responsibility for the quasidelictivs acts committed by those under his potestas
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Patent Trolls Who, What, Where and How to Defend Against Them
... invention is not just the next step that a person of ordinary ... skill in the art would obviously take ... Despite the express statutory limitations, the scope of ... patentable technology has expanded over time. In large part, ...
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Healthcare Data Analysis and Return of Investment for Patient Care: Challenges for a University Hospital
Ethical and scientific reasons sustain concerns when applying Big Data analytics in Healthcare. Patient’s data must be anonymized and must have enough quality. But the extreme variety of data and their multiple sources combined with many different stakeholders registering data in the Electronic Patient Record without a semantic standardization makes the process harder than in other business....
... Majority of patient’s data are in natural text or are only communicated verbally without a formal registration. To take a real benefit of the Healthcare data we must ensure their quality, high integrity, explicit meaning, context recording and complete anonymization ... -
Teleworking and labor conditions in Poland
... market, or for an unemployed person who takes care of a dependant, who resigned from employment or other paid work due to the necessity to take care of her/his child or dependant, provided that it happened within 3 years before they registered as unemployed at the labour office. The grant for ...
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Sarbanes-oxley and the Impact Upon New Hampshire Nonprofit Organizations
... First, ... the Agreement acknowledged that a 10% reduction in ... compensation would take place in July 2004. Second, the ... Agreement placed a "cap" or limitation on the ... compensation paid to both the Rector and Vice ...
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Fraud, greed, ignorance, and corruption. Financial bubbles and markets
... ‒ 368 ‒ ... 2. FRAUD ... Fraud is the use of dishonest methods to take something of value from another ... Bubbles are related to major historical moments, where the behavior of decision-makers is completely ...
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Hipaa One Year Later: Is Your Law Firm Complying?
... considered business associates of covered entities and, if ... so, to take the steps necessary to comply with their duties ... and obligations as business associates by September 23, 2013 ... Alawyer or firm ...
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Environmental courts and tribunals - the british experience
... Even with the same area of law there could be different appeal routes. To take one example, the REACH enforcement regulations provided four separate appeal routes against enforcement notices, depending on which body had served ...
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Ambiguous Language in Communications to Employees Can Deny New Hampshire Employers the Benefits of At-will Status
... were being eliminated would be presented with a choice to ... take other jobs within Moore or to leave ("If an ... employee refuses to accept an available job, he/she will be ... laid off").23 Four months ...
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Teleworking and labor conditions in Canada
... That said, Canada voted for the adoption of the Convention and Recommendation ... Should a state adopt a convention, the state must take steps to ratify it. It is worth noting, however, that the while the federal government of Canada has exclusive authority to execute international ...
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Crisis in, and sustainability of, the british welfare state
... Such examination will of necessity be modest as parameters of space do not allow for a detailed and more informed discussion to take place in such a vast and complicated field treating inter alia , labour, state pensions and social security laws and policies. The reader who wishes ...
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State Office of Victim/witness Assistance
... essential mental health counseling, or go bankrupt trying to ... pay for the cost of medical treatment, or have to take out a ... loan to pay for the funeral of their loved one who was ... murdered ... The state now pays for the cost of the sexual ...
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Ending the Tyranny of the Billable Hour: a Mandate for Change for the 21st Century Law Firm
... their attorneys and maximum value for their money.(fn1) And ... they will not hesitate to take their business elsewhere to ... firms that can deliver ... So what is a 21st century law firm to do in order to manage ... change ...
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Taxation of non-resident individuals in Spain: hot topics and open questions
Este artículo revisa diversas cuestiones de interés en relación con las principales figuras impositivas de naturaleza patrimonial que afectan a los no residentes con inversiones en España; particularmente, el Impuesto sobre el Patrimonio y el Impuesto sobre Sucesiones y Donaciones. Entre las cuestiones analizadas, además de una aproximación general a la imposición de los no residentes, se...
... of residence has no wealth tax), the applicable double tax treaty may limit Spain’s power to tax assets located in its territory (tax treaties take precedence over Spanish domestic legislation). A significant number of the treaties Spain has signed only allow it to tax the ownership of real ... -
Federal Income Tax Treatment of the Development, Acquisition and Disposition of Intellectual Property
... property ... Patents ... Patents are not defined in the tax law ... They take their meaning from other laws that create the ... rights that are referred to as patents. Under US law, a ... patent is an intellectual ...
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Assuaging the Rage of Achilles: Athena, Aikido and Marital Mediation
... our view of the world. unwilling to back down from the ... challenges, we are compelled to take on every stressor that ... comes our way.(fn2) ... Most judges who are murdered by dissatisfied parties are ... killed by the irate ...
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La política lingüística a Suïssa: el paradigma canvia, però la complexitat es manté
Taking into account the history and experiences of multilingual and multicultural Switzerland, this article pursues two goals. Firstly, to demonstrate that the official recognition of several languages is proof of wisdom, and an important factor in preserving peace and stability, because it is a sign of respect towards minority languages and communities. Secondly, as a reminder that this static...
... Another important result is that if a competence belongs to the cantons, the administrative acts flowing from this competence will take place in the respective official language of each individual canton. In the three bilingual cantons, cantonal authorities will normally use one ... -
Compromising the Best Interests of New Hampshire's Children:the Failure to Fund Guardians Ad Litem for Children Living in Poverty
... health issues or getting him to day care. Amanda, for her ... part, was upset that Tim wanted to take Tommy "away from ... her" because, she said, she was Tommy's mother and ... he should live with her, even though she was having diffculty ...
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The Development of Enforcement of CITES in Norway: Discretionary Omissions and Theoricides
The world is losing species at an alarming rate; the population sizes of wild mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have dropped 68% since 1970. Much of this loss is caused by trade. This article discusses the development in the enforcement of CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species) in Norway through a longitudinal, qualitative approach. It is based on data...
... (…) I think it is a totally wrong way of enforcement. It goes against all I stand for. To take these birds out, it was so different from euthanizing other animals, I thought: they understand. [But] we do not want to work as the NEA’s ... -
The hungarian child protection system. Some questions relating to funding
... cannot be ensured with the consent of the parent and this situation endangers the child’s development, the guardianship authority will take one of the measures listed in § 15 (4) depending on the extent of danger 38 ... Authority measures may be divided into two major parts according to ...
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Equality, non-discrimination and work-life balance - Conclusions
The Comparative Labor Law Dossier (CLLD) in this issue 2/2016 of IUSLabor is dedicated to equality, non-discrimination and work-life balance. We have had the collaboration of internationally renowned academics and professionals from Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Canada and the United States....
... differences in the legal regimes, most of the analyzed European countries recognize the right to suspend the employment contract in order to take care of underage children, those affected by disabilities, and/or dependent family members. This leave of absence is short-term in Portugal (30 ...