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Vietnam: Competition Law Fact Sheet
Overview of the main provisions of the Competition Law, and discussion of the enforcement regime and recent enforcement trends.
On September 23, 2020, the Equator Principles Association released a series of guidance notes to support the implementation of the updated Equator Principles (EP4), which came into full effect on October 1, 2020.
Among other revisions, one of the key updates that appears in EP4 is the additional guidance it provides regarding stakeholder engagement with Indigenous Peoples (which is a defined term) and the concept of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). These changes are something that stakeholders in Designated Countries, including Canada, will want to be aware of and ready for in the context of project financing to which EP4 now applies.
While each project may require its own full assessment, this publication provides a high-level benchmarking of the requirements of IFC Performance Standard 7 against Canadian law, as it relates to engagement with Indigenous Peoples. This comparative analysis reveals that overall, there is substantial alignment between most of the key elements and goals of IFC Performance Standard 7 and Canada’s legal framework, and Canada’s legal framework includes mechanisms through which many of the same goals and outcomes of IFC Performance Standard 7 and EP4 can be achieved. The guidance notes can be found here.
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Overview of the main provisions of the Competition Law, and discussion of the enforcement regime and recent enforcement trends.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) recently ruled in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz & Ors v. Switzerland (Application No. 53600/20) that Switzerland had breached the European Convention of Human Rights (the Convention) by not taking sufficient action against climate change. In particular, it found a breach of the right to respect for private and family life contained in Article 8 of the Convention, based on Switzerland’s failure to mitigate the impact of climate change on the lives, health, well-being and quality of life of its citizens. It also ruled that Switzerland had breached the right to a fair trial in terms of Article 6, in that the domestic courts failed to examine the merits of the applicants’ complaints, including the scientific evidence. In this article we consider the key features of this landmark judgment, which has wide ramifications for Member States of the Convention.
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