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… Zoekresultaten 29 maart 2019 With the development of international trade, local products have started to spread all around the world and become popular worldwide. Geographical indications (GIs) are meant to protect the use of the name that indicates certain characteristics and the origin of products typical for a particular region. The trading … the one between Chile and Peru in the past. Written by Ayşe Kübra Özreisoğlu - More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: IGIR IPKM European and International law Miscellaneous … With the development of international trade, local products have started to spread all around the world and become popular worldwide. Geographical indications (GIs) are meant to protect the use of the name that indicates certain characteristics and the origin of products typical for a particular region. … Who owns …
… of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal fast approaching, it is becoming increasingly evident that the British government still has no clear plan, relies on wishful thinking and is running out of viable options. To prevent a complete disaster, a much more targeted salvaging operation might be required. Almost two years ago, on a night, as many Britons were still blissfully unaware of what was going on across the nation, a well-known recent figure of British politics stepped up and had his voice heard. … Dominic Grieve, a Conservative, for his French maternal lineage, are only the latest manifestation of the extremism espoused by many of those on the side of the rupture with Europe. The fact that Prime Minister Theresa May operates without a parliamentary majority and is dependent on the ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party also makes matters even more complicated. Thus, Mrs May is prone to blackmail from three camps: the extreme Brexiteers, the sliver of Europhile Conservative MPs who wish … Brexiteers), as opposed to a clean break (rejected by those advocating continued close ties to Europe) has paralyzed the cabinet and is a powder keg waiting to explode. One sign for this was the dispute between Prime Minister May and her Brexit Secretary, David Davis, over the wording of the backstop clause governing the future UK-Irish border (which would also become the European Union’s external frontier upon Britain’s withdrawal from the EU). The backstop clause would boil down to the UK …
… Zoekresultaten 15 december 2014 door: M.A. Paul in General ‘Everything valuable is vulnerable’, wrote one of the greatest Dutch poets, Lucebert, in 1974. Coincidentally, this was also the year that the first fifty students started the medicine programme in Maastricht, even before the official approval from The Hague (the Rijksuniversiteit Limburg was only established in 1976). If you look through the newspaper archives of the time, it seems that all of Limburg in those … students to become familiar with foreign countries, for example, but which also enriches our research. Four out of ten of our academic staff (who also teach) come from abroad. This brings me to a third ‘valuable’ component: UM as an employer. We started in 1974 with one hundred employees; today the university provides more than three thousand full-time jobs. This makes UM one of the largest employers in Limburg, and even the largest when you count us together with aZM/Maastricht UMC+. The … And I will always take up the fight to protect its independent value. M.A. Paul … ‘Everything valuable is vulnerable’, wrote one of the greatest Dutch poets, Lucebert, in 1974. Coincidentally, this was also the year that the first fifty students started the medicine programme in Maastricht, even before the official approval from The Hague (the Rijksuniversiteit Limburg was only established in 1976). … The value of knowledge …
… Zoekresultaten 16 maart 2018 door: in Law Turkey has never been governed by the rule of law. This simple fact, long known to political dissidents, members of ethnic and religious minorities, and progressive legal scholars in Turkey, has finally started to be publicly acknowledged by the international community. But, this acknowledgment comes too little, too late. Let’s start with the whirlwind of incidents of the past week. First the good news: German journalist Deniz Yücel has been freed from the Turkish prison he was held captive for a year - the first ten months of which he spent in solitary confinement. His release on February 16 th came after intensive diplomatic negotiations between Berlin and Ankara. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has reportedly secretly travelled twice to personally meet with the Turkish President Recep …
… Zoekresultaten 22 oktober 2019 It is now almost ten months since the Court of Justice handed down its ruling in Case C-621/18 Wightman and Others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. At the time of the ruling, I felt that the Court of Justice had got its ruling wrong, profoundly wrong in fact. It had been my hopeful expectation that the Court would rule the … published on dcubrexitinstitute.eu More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: law International and European law LBM … It is now almost ten months since the Court of Justice handed down its ruling in Case C-621/18 Wightman and Others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. At the time of the ruling, I felt that the Court of Justice had got its ruling wrong, profoundly wrong in fact. … Ten months later: a retrospective of Wightman …
… Zoekresultaten 5 maart 2018 On the 8 th of December 2017, Mr. Matthijs Geuze, who worked for the WIPO Secretariat during the negotiations of the Geneva Act, held an expert lecture at Maastricht University on the International Registration and Protection of Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications in the light of the Geneva Act. Road to the Geneva … for GIs protection. Written by Jenjira Yanprasart and Stéphanie de Potter More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: International and European law IGIR LBM … On the 8 th of December 2017, Mr. Matthijs Geuze, who worked for the WIPO Secretariat during the negotiations of the Geneva Act, held an expert lecture at Maastricht University on the International Registration and Protection of Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications in the light of the Geneva Act. … The …
… Von der Leyen. The Commission had promised to deliver a number of priorities set out in the President’s Political Guidelines by this self-imposed deadline – priorities that, however, do not include any clear strategy on how to strengthen parliamentary democracy in Europe. Amongst the priorities included the Political Guidelines is the headline ambition entitled “A new push for European democracy”, under which Von der Leyen proposes a variety of measures to protect and strengthen democracy in the EU. But while she only makes vague suggestions regarding the strengthening of the European Parliament, she conspicuously fails to make any mention at all of the second pillar on which EU parliamentary democracy rests: the national parliaments of the 27 EU Member States. A new push for European democracy In her Political Guidelines , then Commission President-elect Von der Leyen set out six headline ambitions: A European Green Deal An economy … the public debate, in particular after a Franco-German non-paper supporting such a Conference became public at the end of November. What the Commission did not do during this period, however, was to lay out concrete plans on how to strengthen parliamentary democracy in Europe. The European Union is founded on representative democracy. While the European Parliaments directly represents EU citizens at European level, national parliaments indirectly represent their citizens at EU level by holding their …
… Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom on Christmas Eve, we slowly see how this treaty is going to affect the tax domain. In this blog I will briefly focus on the area of fiscal state aid, i.e. the regulation of subsidies given to targeted businesses via the tax system. Specific subsidies in the EU-UK Agreement While the drafters of the new agreement tried to avoid any direct reference to the EU’s ‘state aid‘ framework, many of the definitions it rests upon have been copied into … tax domain however, an interested party might have a hard time providing evidence of an individual subsidy being included in an often undisclosed tax assessment or tax ruling of another tax payer. The latter would be a prerequisite before we can even start discussing recovery. The question is whether the new UK supervising authority might offer some relief here by offering a complaints procedure or by starting ex officio investigations if private enforcement would be too problematic due to accessibility of information. Excluding recovery of individual aid from arbitration If either the EU or the UK themselves would like to challenge subsidies granted …
… three decades now. Following the regulatory technique of the New Approach, EU institutions have entrusted standard-setting organisations, composed of experts and representatives of the industry, to elaborate technical standards that prescribe voluntary technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process, service or system. The compliance with these standards - adopted by the three European standardisation organisations (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, collectively the “ESOs”) on the basis of a … three decades now. Following the regulatory technique of the New Approach, EU institutions have entrusted standard-setting organisations, composed of experts and representatives of the industry, to elaborate technical standards that prescribe voluntary technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process, service or system. … “Part of eu law”, but only partially: the issue of the accessibility of harmonised standards …
… Zoekresultaten 27 november 2015 As bills don’t pay themselves an income is required, some obtain it by working for a wage, others by starting up their own business and some are so talented that they can make an income out of their hobby. In this column ‘My Way to Make Money’ we interview a student or a university employee about their job or business and ask them questions about how … of sustainable office stationery and supplies and other accessories such laptop bags. People also use our products as promotion gifts for their company so we also do custom made orders for organisations. We sell our products online through our webshop and we deliver them to the customers via our pick-up services at university campuses, but we also join various fairs and markets. My job is… I’m in charge of customer service. My number and e-mail are on the website and I reply to people’s inquiries, like for example, students asking about the pick-up service or a company asking a quotation on a bulk order. I do part of the website, but this part is something my co-founder and I do together. I keep the …