Sentences with phrase «international obligations»

That doesn't include preseason matches, international obligations for players, the finals series (their playoffs), and other exhibition matches.

This project will examine the methodology and models of implementing international obligations and the monitoring of and accountability for state obligations.

The key question is, of course... how does these domestic, implicit reduction targets convert into international obligations?

«In a sense, our job is to help countries to comply with international obligations.»

«Also there would be an issue as to whether Australia was breaching international obligations under TRIPS, the World Trade Organization's trade - related aspects of intellectual property rights system, as well as the Australian - U.S. Free Trade Agreement.»

The Commission will publish an Inventory of International Obligations in Summer 2018 and a Discussion Paper on this project in Autumn 2018.

Since the Liberal government feels it has checked climate - change financing off its long environmental to - do list, Ottawa is expected to shift its funding focus to other international obligations on the environment, such as the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

The bill also voids all treaties and international obligations which violate» the spirit and provisions enshrined in this Act.»

Costa Rica v. Nicaragua (Certain Activities Carried Out By Nicaragua in the Border Area)(Reparation Phase): instructed as junior counsel to Costa Rica in claim for reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by Nicaragua.

Nevertheless, as Mendez has concluded, the CJEU resorts to «avoidance» techniques when EU measures are challenged for their compatibility with international agreements and tries to shield EU law from international obligations, compared to a more lenient approach when MS measures are concerned.

The Court then held that the Nakajima scenario was inapplicable because in that case the EU had created an implementing act in the «extremely dense» antidumping system in accordance with existing international obligations, while the implementation of Article 9 (3) of the Aarhus Convention still left a broad margin of discretion when defining the rules for the implementation of the «administrative or judicial proceedings» (para 59).

The court dismissed claims by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) that former federal environment minister Greg Hunt's 2014 approval of the Carmichael mine violated international obligations to protect the reef, a UNESCO world heritage site.

The specific international obligation in issue here was the 1949 Geneva Convention.

«That the Iranian authorities would try to force him to renounce that faith violates the religious values they claim to defend, crosses all bounds of decency and breaches Iran's own international obligations.»

If a treaty is in irreconcilable conflict with a Federal law, the one executed later in time prevails, although courts generally try to harmonize domestic and international obligations whenever possible.

He said «The Nigerian Army leadership in concert with the grand strategic focus of Mr President has continued to devise means of engaging with other countries, especially our neighbouring countries towards tackling common traits in other to meet considerable international obligations for the overall promotion of global peace and security.»

Parties shall, when pursuing actions in the land sector in addition to actions in other sectors and consistent with all relevant international obligations, prioritise the protection, maintenance and restoration of natural ecosystems; undertake emissions reductions and removals in an equitable manner; and the governing body shall develop principles and guidelines for ensuring social protections, food security, ecological integrity, transparency and comparability in relation to such actions.

The Role of REDD in the Harmonization of Overlapping International Obligations; Annalisa Savaresi.

It does not see how it can possibly actually cap emissions growth, given the ongoing urbanization and other developments noted above, and Beijing does not accept international obligations that it does not think it is capable of meeting.

Only those saved by domestic legislation or any new international obligations would continue to have relevance within the UK.

[93]... The fundamental question from the perspective of s. 2 (d) is whether Canada's international obligations support the view that collective bargaining is constitutionally protected in the minimal sense discussed in Health Services....

Absent bad faith in the consultation process, the current process allows Canada to satisfy its domestic and international obligations vis - a-vis BC First Nations who may be affected by the Northern Gateway project.

This logic applies a fortiori to the argument that international obligations assented to by the federal executive are incorporated into constitutional law, which limits the content of legislation passed by either level of government.

Consistent with these positions, Patrick Macklem has recently identified what is effectively a form of «creeping monism,» whereby various international obligations have been imported into the domestic legal order through judicial interpretation of the Charter.

International obligations entered into by Canada, such as those contained in trade agreements, are not automatically incorporated into domestic law.

Necessity given international obligations: A principal rationale cited for the need to update Canada's interception and surveillance regime — as proposed in C - 46 and C - 47 — is ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime.

The court concluded that the UK's rules regarding inter-country adoptions are wholly consistent with EU law and are a reasonable and proportionate means of giving effect to international obligations relating to children's welfare.

The process violated Canada's international obligations on the treatment of youth detainees.

We also monitor compliance and implementation of New Zealand's international obligations in accordance with the requirements of the international conventions New Zealand has signed, and have prepared shadow reports for relevant United Nations treaty bodies to be considered alongside official reports.

And both Labour and the Tories ridicule the best recent precedent of codified existing international obligations — the EU European Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms 2000.

It seems to continue to narrow down the concept of EU law implementing international obligations to a degree where it is hard to see where this exception should ever apply.

In sum, the Court must respond whether its WTO case law captures also «non-implementation» of a very specific international obligation in the context of the WTO through EU legislation — legislation which itself acknowledges to have been adopted in this international context.

The fad for recladding tower blocks in London and the rest of the country looks increasingly like a hysterical response to international obligations for action over climate change.

... «and breaches Iran's own international obligations».