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based on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; constitution ambiguous on judicial review of legislation; has not accepted compulsory ICJ ...
www.exxun.com/China/d_gv.html
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... may lead to increased government revenues, outside budget assistance, and foreign direct investment, although an uncertain legal framework, corruption, and a lack of transparency in government policy are continuing long-term problems
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
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... Judicial Chamber for criminal cases, Audit Chamber for financial cases, Constitutional Chamber for judicial review cases, and Administrative Chamber for civil cases; there is no legal limit to the number of members
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/d_gv.html
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... year terms) elections: last held 20 January 2008 (next to be held in January 2013) election results: Cuba's Communist Party is the only legal party, and officially sanctioned candidates run unopposed
www.exxun.com/Cuba/d_gv.html
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... codes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction; legal code modified to bring it in line with Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) obligations and to expunge Marxist-Leninist legal theory
www.exxun.com/CzechRepublic/d_gv.html
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in 2006, Austrian public protests for the Czech Republic to close the Temelin nuclear power plant resulted in an Austrian parliamentary motion threatening international legal action
www.exxun.com/CzechRepublic/i_ti.html
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Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia Order in Council 1960, effective 16 August 1960, functions as a basic legal document
www.exxun.com/Dhekelia/d_gv.html
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... a series of structural reforms that also provided for the adoption of the US dollar as legal tender. Dollarization stabilized the economy, and positive growth returned in the years that followed, helped ...
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/e_ec.html
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... effect, pending parliamentary and presidential elections; parliamentary elections were scheduled in December 2001, but were postponed indefinitely; currently the sole legal party is the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/d_gv.html
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... southern Africa; cultivates qat (khat) for local use and regional export, principally to Djibouti and Somalia (legal in all three countries); the lack of a well-developed financial system limits the country ...
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/i_ti.html
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... and concise mandate for an Intergovernmental Conference to form a political agreement and put it into legal form; this agreement, known as the Reform Treaty, is to serve as a constitution and ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/d_gv.html
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... of government: Prime Minister Laisenia QARASE (since 10 September 2000); note - although QARASE is still the legal prime minister, he has been confined to his home island; the president appointed Commodore Voreqe ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/d_gv.html
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Guernsey pound note: the British pound is also legal tender
www.exxun.com/Guernsey/e_ec.html
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... accounts for over 70% of exports. Long-run improvements in government fiscal arrangements, literacy, and the legal framework are needed if the country is to move out of poverty. Investor confidence has ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/e_ec.html
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... Roman and Spanish civil law with increasing influence of English common law; recent judicial reforms include abandoning Napoleonic legal codes in favor of the oral adversarial system; accepts ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
www.exxun.com/Honduras/d_gv.html
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... 18 August 1949, effective 20 August 1949; revised 19 April 1972; 18 October 1989 revision ensured legal rights for individuals and constitutional checks on the authority of the prime minister and also ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/d_gv.html
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bilateral government, legal, technical and economic working group negotiations continue in 2006 with Slovakia over Hungary's failure to complete its portion of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam project along the Danube ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/i_ti.html
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... head and overlapping responsibilities; together they supervise the enforcement of all laws and establish judicial and legal policies; lower courts include a special clerical court, a revolutionary court, and a special administrative ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/d_gv.html
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... pass laws to strengthen its economy. This legislation includes a hydrocarbon law to establish a modern legal framework to allow Iraq to develop its resources and a revenue sharing law to equitably ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/e_ec.html
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Isle of Man pound (IMP), also known as the Manx pound note: the British pound is also legal tender, but change is given in IMP
www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/e_ec.html
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... mixture of English common law, British Mandate regulations, and, in personal matters, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim legal systems; in December 1985, Israel informed the UN Secretariat that it would no longer accept ...
www.exxun.com/Israel/d_gv.html
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Jersey pound note: the British pound is also legal tender
www.exxun.com/Jersey/e_ec.html
