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The issues 2013: upcoming legal topics in the Czech Republic

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Czech Republic
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  • February 1 2013

The adoption of the new Civil Code and the Act on Corporations, effective as of 1 January 2014, is a step of great importance for the Czech law. There

Aviation round-up the big six

  • Dentons
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  • European Union, Global, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 15 2013

As a new year begins, Bill Gibson, a partner in the SNR Denton Aviation Group looks at six of the main legal developments in the aircraft finance and

Aircraft owners may attract environmental liability

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
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  • New Zealand, South Africa
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  • November 14 2012

The National Environmental Management Act, No 107 of 1998 (NEMA), states that "no person may unlawfully and intentionally or negligently commit any act or omission which causes significant or is likely to cause significant pollution or degradation of the environment"

Third Circuit rules FAA need not adopt EPA comments on airport expansion

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 20 2012

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) need not adopt U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) comments challenging an FAA air-quality analysis of a planned Philadelphia International Airport expansion

General counsel update: 31 May 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Argentina, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • May 31 2012

This is the twenty-ninth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

EPA must study endangerment finding for aircraft, ships and non-road engines

  • Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 3 2012

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Frederick Scullin has ordered EPA to respond to a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity requesting that EPA find that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from aircraft, ships and non-road engines endanger the public health and welfare

Federal court dismisses CAA aircraft emissions suit against EPA

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 30 2012

A federal court in the District of Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging that the agency violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by failing to determine whether emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG s) and carbon black from aircraft “cause or contribute to dangerous air pollution.”

U.S. district judge dismisses environmental group's legal suit to force EPA to regulate aircraft engine emissions

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 16 2012

As previously posted, in June 2010, the Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Ctr. for Biological Diversity et al. v. EPA et al., No. 1:10-cv-00985), alleging that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) unnecessarily “dragged its feet” and delayed making a determination that aircraft engine emissions significantly contribute to air pollution and climate change

Aircraft lead regulation urged

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • March 11 2012

Friends of the Earth filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia March 7 to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to respond to a 2006 petition asking the agency to find that lead from general aviation aircraft endangers public health and the environment and should be regulated

ECJ upholds the directive applying the EU ETS to aviation activities

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • March 8 2012

On 21 December 2011 the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) delivered its preliminary ruling on the legal challenge by the Air Transport Association of America and certain US airlines to the validity of Directive 2008101EC (the Directive), the Directive which brings aviation activities within the scope of the EU ETS

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