We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 10

WTO appellate body rules against Canada in renewable energy case

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada, European Union, Japan
  • -
  • May 13 2013

On May 6, 2013, the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Appellate Body issued its decision affirming an earlier panel ruling that Canada had violated

Conflict minerals rule weekly recap 13 February 8, 2013

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Democratic Republic of Congo, European Union, Japan, USA
  • -
  • February 18 2013

Seiko Epson Corporation, commonly known as Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computer printers

Export restrictions in gas contracts: possible anti-competition behavior by Gazprom opens probe

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • European Union, Japan
  • -
  • September 7 2012

The EU Commission has announced it will formally investigate possible anti-competitive behavior by Gazprom that may drive up prices and adversely affect security of supply

WTO rare earth dispute resubmitted

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

WTO Ontario FIT ruling forthcoming

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, European Union, Global, Japan
  • -
  • 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

WTO dispute talks seat

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, European Union, Japan, USA
  • -
  • September 8 2011

The United States requested August 29 to become an observer at the World Trade Organization dispute settlement talks with the European Union, Japan, and Canada regarding a challenge filed by the EU and Japan against a green energy program in Canada, citing trade interests

Nuclear focus: the global fallout of the Fukushima disaster

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Japan, United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 6 2011

Global confidence regarding the use of nuclear energy has been shaken by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan in March 2011, severely damaging the Daiichi nuclear facility in Fukushima as a result

The safety of nuclear power

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Global, Japan, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 3 2011

As at the date of writing this article, workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan are working to contain the nuclear contamination risks from the incident in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami

Japan, US and the EU face-off against Ontario's renewable energy program at the WTO

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, European Union, Japan, USA
  • -
  • December 20 2010

The debate over Ontario's feed-in-tariff Program (the FIT Program) was elevated to a new level in September, when Japan launched a dispute settlement proceeding against Canada at the World Trade Organization (WTO

Summit talks on EU-Japan cooperation address climate change

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, Japan
  • -
  • April 25 2008

On 23 April 2008 the 17th annual EU-Japan summit was held in Tokyo