Search results for: “national contingency plan”
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Effective United States Control
The condition attributed to vessels owned by U.S. citizens but registered in friendly flag of convenience countries (primarily Panama, Liberia, and Honduras) and presumed to be available for use by the United States in time of war or national emergency Operators of U.S.-registered vessels, America…
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Economic Analysis of Law
Economic Analysis of Law Introduction: Critical legal studies The Critical legal studies is a theory that challenges and overturns accepted norms and standards in legal theory and practice which fully emerged in the late 1970s. “Critical legal studies was a left-wing political/academic movement that now exists only as a school of thought in legal academia.…
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Stimson’s Law Dictionary
Stimson’s Law Dictionary “A concise law dictionary of words, phrases, and maxims : with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in Law books “(1911). The Authors were Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943 and Voorhees, Harvey Cortlandt, b. 1867. FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON was PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION IN HARVARD and HARVEY CORTLANDT VOORHEES was lawyer in the…
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Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law
Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law A communi observantia non est recedendum. There should be no departure from common observance or usage. Co. Litt. 186. A l’impossible nul n’est tenu. No one is bound to do what is impossible. 1 Bouvier’s Institutes of American Law. n. 601. A verbis legis non est…
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Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents
Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents Article 6 PREVENTION 1. The Parties shall take appropriate measures for the prevention of industrial accidents, including measures to induce action by operators to reduce the risk of industrial accidents. Such measures may include, but are not limited to those referred to in Annex IV hereto.…
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Protocol on Environmental Protection 3
Protocol on Environmental Protection ARTICLE 13 COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PROTOCOL 1. Each Party shall take appropriate measures within its competence, including the adoption of laws and regulations, administrative actions and enforcement measures, to ensure compliance with this Protocol. 2. Each Party shall exert appropriate efforts, consistent with the Charter of the United Nations ,…
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Protection & Preservation of the Marine Environment
Protection & Preservation of the Marine Environment PART XII PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 192 General obligation States have the obligation to protect and preserve the marine environment. Article 193 Sovereign right of States to exploit their natural resources States have the sovereign right to exploit their…
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Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses Article 1 DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Convention, 1. “Transboundary waters”means any surface or ground waters which mark, cross or are located on boundaries between two or more States; wherever transboundary waters flow directly into the sea, these transboundary waters end at a straight…
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Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region
Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region Article 1 GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE 1. This Convention shall apply to the Eastern African region, hereinafter referred to as “the Convention area”as defined in paragraph (a) of article 2. 2. Except as may be otherwise provided in…
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Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities 6
Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities Article 45 Examination of Applications 1 The Regulatory Committee shall meet as soon as possible after an application has been lodged pursuant to Article 44, for the purpose of elaborating a Management Scheme. In performing this function it shall: (a) determine whether the application contains…
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Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities 4
Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities Chapter III: Prospecting Article 37 Prospecting 1 Prospecting shall not confer upon any Operator any right to Antarctic mineral resources. 2 Prospecting shall at all times be conducted in compliance with this Convention and with measures in effect pursuant to this Convention, but shall not…
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade resources
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) / World Trade Organization (WTO) resources Legal texts index A-Z Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization Agreement Establishing the WTO: acceptance of and accession to the agreement Agriculture > summary > interpretation Agriculture: measures concerning the possible negative effects of the reform programme on least-developed and net food-importing…
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U.S. v. Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc
U.S. v. Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc See Environmental crime MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER MARTIN, District Judge: *1 Most of the pre-trial motions in this case were decided on the record during the course of oral argument. At that time, the Court took under advisement the defendant Papakrasas’ motion to dismiss Count Four of…