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This thesis touches upon the principle of mutual recognition and the conditions for its application on the Framework decision on the European arrest warrant. Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member , OJ L 190, 18/07/2002, P 001-0020. This Framework decision was the first third pillar instrument based upon this principle. The Eur

Parallel trade in the pharmaceutical industry is a complicated issue because it has connections with competition law, trade law, and intellectual property law. International exhaustion benefits consumers by promoting price competition. This is an extremely attractive argument. For several years, the parallel trade in pharmaceutical products has been an important issue for the European pharmaceutic

The thesis aims to investigate whether Sweden is able to prosecute Swedish soldiers stationed abroad for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Sweden is currently reforming its armed forces and will continue sending more soldiers to armed conflicts abroad. Sweden is also a state party to the ICC and therefore has an obligation to be the primary actor in prosecution of such crimes with

This thesis analyses the implications from international law concerning the implementation of the principle of public access to official documents. With a view to the current discussion among the member states of the European Union as to the scope of a principle of that kind this thesis will confine itself to an analysis of the implications from international law binding on the member states of th

The supervising organs of the International Labour Organization (ILO) have for decades criticized the Myanmar government for making use of forced labour. In 1996, during the 83rd session of the International Labour Conference, twenty-five worker delegates filed a complaint against Myanmar for violating its obligations under the Forced Labour Convention, and soon after the Governing Body of the ILO

This thesis analyzes blood diamonds and the human rights issues surrounding them. The problems they pose and the promises and limitations of the Kimberly Process are covered along with the development and future impact of man-made diamonds on the demand side of the blood diamond problem. There are two main sections--the first covers blood diamonds and the second man-made diamonds. The introduction

The Master thesis is structured in four parts: Part A International sources - This part examines the international instruments that have had biggest impact on the development of human rights education. It gives an idea about the contents of the right to human rights education and of the respective obligations of the states. It also gives prominence to the crucial role, reiterated in these instrume

This thesis concerns the importance of judicial review system in safeguarding human rights. It examines different review systems on international level, regional level and domestic level. In the second half of the thesis, China, as a specially targeted country, has been examined in better detail of its judicial review system. The aim of this thesis is to, through introduction of, and comparison wi

This work is an analysis of the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and more particularly the negotiation of the association agreements, which aim to improve the conditions for carrying out trade by exploring new areas of cooperation in investment, trade facilitation and the approximation of legislation. This study focuses on the association agreement contracted between the Europe

The market freedoms of the EC Treaty first of all commit the Member States not to erect hindrances to the internal market. Obstacles to the free movement of goods and the other market freedoms may also originate from other authors than the Member States. Individuals may hamper the functioning of the internal market, and even the European Community itself might pass legislation affecting the market

This paper examines the freedom of expression in a newly established in Eastern Europe democracy, namely in Azerbaijan. Before reviewing the domestic law of Azerbaijan on freedom of expression, the study touches upon a few important thoughts and statements about the interdependence of freedom of expression and democracy. Afterwards it elaborates international binding as well as non-binding standar

HR indicators are increasingly used as a method for analysis in the work with human rights. However, the concept of HR indicators is often subject to confusion due to the lack of a common and universal theoretical framework. This study focuses on the elaboration of HR indicators for state reporting within the UN treaty monitoring bodies and argues that an extended and more coherent use of HR indic

In the beginning of the October 2004 a new legal entity made its debut in the European Community system: the SE or Societas Europaea. The content of the regulation introducing this corporate form clearly shows how the SE project has been concretised in reality. First of all, it is possible to ascertain that the landmark legal framework is constituted essentially by two texts: the EC regulation 215