Sentences with phrase «for overseas territories»

In May 2009, an official with the British Foreign Office — Colin Roberts, who is responsible for overseas territories — briefed U.S. diplomatic staff about government plans to create a marine reserve in the archipelago, which is within the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Witness (es): Mark Simmonds MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Richard Benyon, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Dr Peter Hayes, Director Overseas Territories, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jeremy Eppel, Deputy Director, International Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Evidence, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Ian McKendry, Deputy Director for the Overseas Territories and the Caribbean, Department for International Development

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WASHINGTON, April 24 - Foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses committed overseas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

WASHINGTON, April 24 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses overseas, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Kirland added: «Given the scale of tax avoidance linked with the UK's tax havens, the Prime Minister should set a deadline for the UK's Overseas Territories to adopt the same transparency on true company ownership as the UK.

The BOA is responsible for the participation in the Olympic Games of athletes from GB and NI, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and UK Overseas Territories which do not have their own National Olympic Committee.

a) Commit to sorting out the secrecy and any related corruption in the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies: a key vulnerability for the UK that just won't go away;

The election of the new pope marks a turbulent week for Falklands Islanders, after they voted overwhelmingly to remain a British overseas territory.

Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC has provided substantial sponsorship for a major project to highlight the merits of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territories.

Although the trigger dates were earlier for the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories (CDOTs)(1 July 2014) and early adopters of the CRS (1 January 2016), the late adopter countries are perhaps the most significant because they include the major financial centres of Switzerland, Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore.

Cameron said there is a need for every country to reach a gold standard of a register of beneficial ownership made public, and he says that he includes crown dependencies and overseas territories in that.

On Thursday 23 June 2016 the United Kingdom voted for the second time in 41 years on its membership to what is now known as the European Union (EU) with the overseas territory Gibraltar also voting on the issue for the very first time.

The UK government is «particularly responsible» for illegal - trade related tax evasion because nearly half the world's tax havens are UK overseas territories, development charity Christian Aid has said.

What he is saying is that he doesn't want the breakup of the UK, however if England was to be a nation in itself perhaps with Dependencies and other overseas Territories I imagine he would try to become Prime Minister of England, although Labour and the Liberal Democrats would change leader as I can't see Menzies Campbell or Gordon Brown wanting to stand for an English seat and try for PM of England - more likely they would retire, although they might try to become PM of Scotland - I imagine that someone such as Stephen Byers would become Labour leader and probably Vincent Cable would become Liberal Democrat leader.

MPs from across the political spectrum have called for action to tackle money laundering, sanctions busting, tax avoidance and tax evasion in the UK's crown dependencies and overseas territories.

Legal fisheries are concentrated in the wider Caribbean region, including several of the UKs Overseas Territories, and the Indo - Pacific region, with Papua New Guinea, Nicaragua and Australia together accounting for almost three quarters of the total.

The film doesn't seem conceived with the same kind of global appeal as the Taken franchise, and a smash - and - grab release schedule — the US and UK creating an early March splash for a busy overseas weekend with most major territories a month later — reflects that.

Dragon Quest 10 — which launched in Japan only for Wii in 2012, Wii U and PC the following year and Android this past winter — is listed in a set of slides detailing overseas business with a focus on Asian territories beneath Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn.

A.I. — which if this facility is automated it probably is, can still not hope to compete with a good editor... Context, deliberate mis - spellings for humourous effect and the numerous versions of the English language — universally bastardized by all the overseas territories and former colonies — Websters included — have contributed to an ever diversification of linguistic gymnastics.

Turks & Caicos is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, still not overrun with mass tourism, although plans are for several large resorts to spring up $ on some uninhabited islands.

A number of resorts in the British Overseas Territory are participating in the Cayman Islands Environmental Project for the Tourism Sector (CEPTS), a joint pilot project between the Departments of Tourism and Environment and the private sector to encourage tourism organisations to strive for Green Globe Certification.

Enjoy the coastal ports of the peninsula or travel inland to visit Granada, with her brilliant architectural jewels including the Alhambra Palace, Jerez de la Frontera famed for its architecture, sherry and fine horses, the mountain top city of Ronda, Andalucía's third city; birthplace of bull fighting and explore the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

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The British Overseas Territory of Turks and Caicos is known for its very laid - back appeal.

How, for example, British artists and travellers brought exotic subjects and faraway events within the conventions of European art; but, conversely, the way the indigenous art traditions of overseas territories adapted to the British presence.

From 1999 to 2005, she worked as a freelance photographer for the New York Daily News and the Trust for Public Land, and overseas in Afghanistan, the Baltic countries, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Iran, Jordan, Kosovo, Pakistan and Russia.

[The] e-brief summarises the approach taken in federal, state and territory and some overseas parliaments to codes of conduct for ministers and members of parliament, registers of interests, the post-separation employment of ministers and the use of ethics commissioners in providing advice on and / or conducting investigations into breaches of codes.

In this post, international commercial litigator Steven Loble discusses recent case, Singularis Holdings Ltd. v PricewaterhouseCoopers, in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which is the ultimate court of appeal for UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies, and for some Commonwealth countries, set out the limits of a court's power to assist in obtaining evidence...

This is to be read alongside point 3, which stipulates that on the date of withdrawal, the Treaties will cease to apply to the United Kingdom, to those of its overseas countries and territories currently associated to the Union, and to territories for whose external relations the United Kingdom is responsible.

UK House of Lords rejects public beneficial ownership registers for British Overseas Territories

Quantum Music Records Romania concluded a strategic partnership with Universal Music France for the development of the musical project of the artist Irina Rimes (equally known as Irina Remesh or Irra), on all French territories, respectively France, Monaco, The French Overseas Territories and Departments, Andorra, Benelux, Switzerland territories, respectively France, Monaco, The French Overseas Territories and Departments, Andorra, Benelux, Switzerland Territories and Departments, Andorra, Benelux, Switzerland and Canada.

The special arrangements for association set out in Part Four of this Treaty shall apply to the overseas countries and territories listed in Annex II to this Treaty.

The questions raised by the present case essentially ask, first, whether the French tax on the market value of immovable property owned in France by a company established in a Member State is also applicable where the company is established in an overseas country or territory (OCT), being in the present case the British Virgin Islands, and, second, whether the joint and several liability for payment of that tax on the part of any legal person interposed between the party or parties liable to the tax and the immovable properties located in France constitutes a restriction of free movement of capital.

On February 7 2018 the EU Parliament voted to create a committee provisionally entitled Taxe 3, that will investigate for the first time tax privileges established under citizenship programs or non-dom regimes offered by Portugal, Italy, Malta, the United Kingdom, Cyprus as well as crown dependencies and overseas territories.

While Dragon Quest VIII didn't sell anywhere near the numbers overseas that it did in Japan, it was a breakthrough for the series, selling some 600,000 copies in North America and another 600,000 in PAL territories.

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, the financial watchdog for the British Overseas Territory, has announced it will put in place new regulations aimed at bringing oversight to the cryptocurrency exchange sector.

Understanding the factors that have been in play in past Indigenous representative bodies, in State / Territory and regional representative bodies and in Indigenous representative bodies overseas highlights what are some of the key issues that should be taken into account when considering possible forms for such a body.