Mr. Wilson's extensive experience before joining Davis Polk includes advising the Royal Bank of Scotland Group on the $ 71 billion consortium takeover of ABN AMRO and subsequent integration work, its # 12 billion rights issue, # 15 billion open offer and # 25.5 billion share issue to H.M. Treasury,
its terms of accession to the U.K. Government's # 282 billion Asset Protection Scheme and various aspects of its subsequent asset disposal program.
While the opinion does not discuss any other international organizations, it is made plain that accession will depend on the rules of each organization: some, like the IMF and World Bank, have in fact accepted that a state may directly succeed to membership if they are satisfied that the necessary requirements are fulfilled (see «State Succession in Treaties» Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law); the WTO, on the other hand, has a complicated process which includes lengthy bilateral market access negotiations and a vote by the WTO Members on
the terms of the accession package (a process navigated most recently by Tajikistan who will become the 159th Member on 2 March).
In 1971 pro-Market figures such as Roy Jenkins, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, said a Labour government would have agreed to
the terms of accession secured by the Conservatives.
Not exact matches
A general and irreversible readjustment
of the values
of existence: again two indications (this time not in
terms of vision but in the field
of action) showing our
accession, beyond all ideologies and systems, to a different and higher sphere, a new spiritual dimension.
In some places the way in which we saw rapid influx
of in particular eastern European migrants after the
accession of those countries to Europe definitely caused downward pressure on wages, definitely caused changes to local
terms and conditions to some workers in some sectors.»
It is symptomatic
of the lack
of thought given to fixed -
term parliaments that one had the spectacle in 2007
of people arguing with one breath that Gordon Brown's
accession as Prime Minister necessitated a general election, and with the next that there should be a fixed
term.
The project, found to be in clear breach
of various EU directives, caused the European Parliament to adopt Article 41, in which it expresses its deep concern that the Rosia Montana mine development poses a serious environmental threat to the whole region and states that it will carefully monitor the project's development, both in
terms of its conformity to EU environmental law and also how it relates to Romania's
accession to the EU.
Also with regard to this point the Court's reasoning appears thus to exceed what is dogmatically convincing, with the result that in an area where much could be gained by
accession to the ECHR from the perspective
of individuals in
terms of judicial control, the Court finds it preferable that no one has jurisdiction to the ECHR being granted this privilege.
Article 41 Where a Contracting State has a system
of government under which executive, judicial and legislative powers are distributed between central and other authorities within that State, its signature or ratification, acceptance or approval
of, or
accession to this Convention, or its making
of any declaration in
terms of Article 40 shall carry no implication as to the internal distribution
of powers within that State.
Where a Contracting State has a system
of government under which executive, judicial and legislative powers are distributed between central and other authorities within that State, its signature or ratification, acceptance or approval
of, or
accession to this Convention, or its making
of any declaration in
terms of Article 40 shall carry no implication as to the internal distribution
of powers within that State.
Hence,
accession might take the form
of a negotiation about the
terms of Scotland's membership, rather than a fully - fledged
accession process.