Controversial article 25 of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
The goal of CETA regarding to biotechnology is to overcome Canada’s issues with the European Union market called ‘market access issues’.
Canada is the 5th largest producer of GM crops in the world, growing and exporting GM canola, corn, soy and white sugarbeet and Europe has not yet approved all of these same GM crops for human consumption. Taking this into consideration Europe needs to quickly approve GM foods and crops that being exported by Canada. In Poland the public debate has started, since GM food is thought as “worse” than the food produced in a conventional manner.
In addition, the Polish translation of the CETA had to be corrected, since the article 25.2 pt. 2d) which the original form is ‘to engage in regulatory cooperation to minimise adverse trade impacts of regulatory practices related to biotechnology products’ has been mistranslated thereby it had the opposite meaning in Polish.
The information was prepared by Kamil Trzaskoś of KG Legal Polish Law Firm. KG Legal provides specialised legal assistance to IT, Life Science as well as investment processes in Poland and organises networking between Polish and international companies and research centres.
KG Legal advises one of the UK based law firms in a cross border case involving the British client who is going to enforce in Poland the judgement issued by the British court against the Polish national. KG Legal assistance in such cases focuses on:
– finding legal and effective ways for a search and disclosure of debtor’s property in the Polish jurisdiction;
– filing the petition to the Polish bailiff (enforcement agent) for the enforcement of the judgment issued by the foreign court;
– safeguarding the interests of a foreign entity in the course of enforcement proceedings;
– proceedings for a declaration of enforceability of a foreign judgment or acting under the provisions of Brussels I Recast or “bis”.
We had a great pleasure to take part in Webminar considering “Court decisions on international child abductions across Europe”, which took place on November 8th 2016 as a continuation of the meeting “International child abduction cases in the light of the European Court of Human Rights’ case-law” organized by LEPCA (Lawyers in Europe on Parental Child Abduction).
Second part of the event considered relevant regulations defined in Hague Convention of 25th October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Speaker referred in particular to article 3 and article 13 of this Convention pointing them as the most significant. He mentioned very clearly the difference between right of custody, which should include rights relating to the care of the person of the child and to determine the child’s place of residence and right of access, which shall include the right to take a child for a limited period of time to a place other that the child’s habitual residence. We had a chance to discuss notion of habitual residence and abduction of the new-born child. In relation to following aspects, two experts presented lots of cases on international child abductions in various European countries.
On December 7th 2016 we had a chance to be attendee of Webminarium entitled “International child abductions in the light of the European Court of Human Rights’ case-law” arranged by one of the most important organization actively work within this field LEPCA (Lawyers in Europe on Parental Child Abduction).
Presentation was strictly connected with regulations regarding proceedings pending before European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which has been created in order to oversee the European Convention of Human Rights constituted in 1950. We had a great opportunity to get familiar with this essential institution, within jurisdiction are located 47 member states. Common procedural features and criterion of submitted applications have been presented, such as written form, the way of functioning various mechanisms of procedure, public character of documents, adversarial proceeding only after communication or direct access to the court.
Controversial article 25 of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
We had a great pleasure to take part in Webminar considering “Court decisions on international child abductions across Europe”, which took place on November 8th 2016 as a continuation of the meeting “International child abduction cases in the light of the European Court of Human Rights’ case-law” organized by LEPCA (Lawyers in Europe on Parental Child Abduction).