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Draft EU Directive on renewable energy: are the provisions on biofuels compatible with WTO law?

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Global
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  • April 16 2008

On 23 January 2008, the European Commission published a package of climate action and renewable energy measures that are designed to reduce greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions

Subsidies and other barriers to trade in the biofuel sector

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Global, USA
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  • January 8 2008

Biofuels (ie, ethanol and biodiesel) are a substitute for traditional fossil fuels and are viewed as a means of reducing carbon emissions and thereby contributing to the fight against climate change

U.S. and EU expand sanctions against Iran

  • Jones Day
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  • European Union, Global, USA
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  • August 31 2010

On June 9, 2010, responding to Iran's continued refusal to suspend its nuclear enrichment program and accept international safeguards, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1929

WTO dispute panelists

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, European Union, Global
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  • January 29 2012

The European Union and Canada agreed January 20 on the appointment of three World Trade Organization dispute panelists who will rule on the EU’s complaint against the provisions in the Canadian province of Ontario’s green energy program which the agency claims unfairly discriminates against foreign firms

The Syrian sanctions regime

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • European Union, Global, Syria, USA
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  • July 19 2012

The continuing crisis in Syria is now well documented by national and international press

WTO rare earth dispute resubmitted

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • China, European Union, Global, Japan, USA
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  • July 15 2012

The European Union, Japan, and the United States placed July 13 a second request on the World Trade Organization’s July 23 Dispute Settlement Body agenda asking the organization to establish a dispute panel to rule whether China’s restrictions on rare earths exports violate global trade rules

International trade actions complicate global market for renewable energy businesses, particularly in the solar sector

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • China, European Union, Global, USA
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  • December 3 2012

As a result of several recent actions, developers of solar energy projects may face increased costs

WTO Ontario FIT ruling forthcoming

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, European Union, Global, Japan
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  • March 11 2012

A World Trade Organization dispute panel announced last week that it will issue a ruling by September on Japan’s claims that provisions in Ontario’s green energy program violate global trade rules

Sanctions targets

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, Global, Iran, Ivory Coast, Libya, USA
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  • July 18 2011

The last eighteen months have seen numerous new sanctions regimes introduced by the EU, UN and the U.S. Reed Smith has issued a series of Client Alerts already this year as and when new or changed sanctions regimes have been introduced