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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Intellectual property - The European Union Court of Justice recently considered the issue of resale rights of the works of the painter Salvador Dali. Resale right is an intellectual property right permitting the creator and those entitled under the...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Government finance - On May 9, 2010, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) of the European Union, in response to the grave financial crisis that is currently unfolding in Greece and in an effort to preserve and restore...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Health and safety - The European Union is currently working on drafting new legislation to regulate online sales of medicines. The subject had been omitted from a previous Directive on counterfeit medicines proposed by the European Commission in 2008, which...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Terrorism - The Court of Justice of the European Union, in a judgment issued on April 29, 2010, held that Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002, which imposed a freezing of the funds and other economic resources of persons associated...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Taxation - On May 10, 2010, a bill first tabled in 2002 that prescribes cancellation of the current exemption from income tax of active military personnel and teaching professionals passed its first reading in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan. If...