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Swiss Swedish engineering group ABB Ltd. is confident that its proposed $1.2 billion settlement of asbestos claims will be approved by a US court shor...
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Art. 9 Abs. 1 UVG; Art. 14 UVV; Anhang 1 UVV: Merkmale der Berufskrankheit eines Bronchialkarzinoms nach einer beruflichen Asbeststaubexposition. Eine Asbeststaubexposition kann als überwiegende Ursache für die Entwicklung eines Bronchialkarzinoms nicht zum Vornherein und aus dem alleinigen Grunde ausgeschlossen werden, dass der Versicherte infolge seines starken Zigarettenkonsums ein überdurchschnittliches Risiko der Entwicklung einer solchen Erkrankung zu gewärtigen hatte (E. 5). Die Asbeststaubexposition kann das relative Risiko eines Bronchialkarzinoms auch bei Fehlen von Anzeichen einer begleitenden Asbestose verdoppeln. In casu Frage des Minimalanteils einer Exposition zur Qualifikation des Bronchialkarzinoms als Berufskrankheit bei fehlender Asbestose offen gelassen (E. ...
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Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of energy crops are put at an advantage thanks to subsidisation, direct payments and/or favourable tax schemes. Moreover, the EU is working out a mandatory certification scheme for ethanol imports, imposing social and environmental standards which constitute another hurdle for more efficiently produced ethanol originating in the Southern hemisphere. A similar path is taken by Switzerland's revised mineral oil tax l...
... to the Appellate Body's ruling in the Asbestos case {EC -Asbestos, WT/DS135/AB/R), which followed...
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...119 . NAME: STATE ENTERPRISE FOR ASBESTOS AND PLASTIC A.K.A.: ASBESTOS AND PLASTIC INDUSTRIE...
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The Panel report in EC-Biotech, for the time being, puts an end to one of the most complex cases in the history of WTO dispute settlement. The analysis at hand covers the issues relevant beyond the realms of biotechnology, namely the impact of non-WTO rules of public international law on the interpretation of WTO law. the scope of the SPS Agreement, the categories "undue delay" and "insufficient scientific evidence" in connection with precautionary measures, and product-origin as a criterion for the national-treatment obligation. On the one hand, some of the criticism raised against the Panel report turns out to be unjustified. It is, on the other hand, a deficiency of the Panel report that some parts of it do not foster legal clarity.
...Instead, the Appellate Body in EC-Asbestos reiterates that if there is less favourable treatm...
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... been completed in 2006, but a row over asbestos levels in the ship caused the deal to flounder. Th...
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The admittance of amicus curiae briefs in the US-Shrimp/Turtle dispute in 1998 stirred a debate among WTO Member States whether the dispute settlement procedure should be accessible for private individuals and entities. Developing countries firmly opposed the inclusion of amid curiae into the Disupute Settlement Understanding (DSU) and repeated their arguments frequently in cases leading to amicus submissions, fearing a further shift of power in favour of developed countries and changes in the nature of the dispute settlement system. The present article examines these concerns in light of the experience made with amicus submissions in 21 disputes. It will be argued that most of the fears expressed by developing countries are ungrounded and often base on wrong assumptions.
... from the abovementioned ruling in EC-Asbestos by establishing a so-called Additional Procedure w...
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...Quartz . 6082 . AS 2008 . Asbestos free . free . a. sum of all lithium salts . 4 Bem...
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... year and found that the encapsulated asbestos had already started to deteriorate so he decided t...
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...P y. P y. P y. RO 2010 . 4 Remarques . Asbestos free . Asbestos free . a. sum of all lithium salts...