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The European Union’s Emission Trading Scheme

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

The EU ETS was established by Directive 200387EC (the “Directive”) and linked to the Kyoto Protocol’s project mechanisms by Directive 2004101EC

Amendments to Thailand's Foreign Business act: implications under international law

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Thailand
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  • February 2 2007

The Thai Government has announced an intention to amend the Foreign Business Act by changing the definition of "foreigner"

Court of Appeal rejects challenge to the compensation scheme for former shareholders of Northern Rock

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 24 2009

The Court of Appeal has given judgment in R (SRM Global Master Fund LP) v Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury 2009 EWCA Civ 788

Government proposal to limit foreign investment products in Indonesia

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Indonesia
  • -
  • May 7 2009

The Indonesian Capital Market Supervisory Board ("Bapepam") has issued a draft regulation proposing new restrictions on the sale of foreign investment instruments ("Offshore Products"

Nuclear energy

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

The EU’s competence in nuclear matters derives from the 1957 EURATOM Treaty (see above

Alternative investment fund managers to be regulated under European proposals

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 1 2009

The European Commission yesterday published a proposed Directive to regulate Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) established in the EU, managing portfolios with total alternative fund assets under management exceeding 100 million, or 500 million where funds have no leverage and a lock-in period of five years or more

Dismissal: intention to terminate must be clear

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 6 2009

Employers who decide to end an employee's employment should ensure that decision is clearly communicated to the employee

The market regime of the Second Gas and Electricity Directives

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • February 8 2007

In the wake of the coming into force of the First Gas and Electricity Directives, it became apparent that they were implemented very unevenly throughout the EU with access to networks and interconnectors often being granted on a discriminatory basis. Further, market concentration in the energy sector remained very high after the implementation of the First Gas and Electricity Directives

Security of supply

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

The liberalisation and integration of the energy markets have had consequences far beyond the actual economics of the energy sector itself; in the past, security of supply used to be a matter firmly in the hands of partly or wholly stateowned companies

New TPA regulation

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

On 1 July 2006, Regulation (EC) No 17752005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 September 2005 (the “Regulation”) on conditions for access to the natural gas transportation networks applies directly across the European Union came into effect