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Mc Fadden
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L’exploitant d’un magasin qui propose gratuitement au public un réseau Wi-Fi n’est pas responsable des violations de droits d’auteur commises par un utilisateur

Mc Fadden
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Ein Geschäftsinhaber, der der Öffentlichkeit kostenlos ein WiFi-Netz zur Verfügung stellt, ist für Urheberrechtsverletzungen eines Nutzers nicht verantwortlich

Mc Fadden
SERV
A nyilvánosság számára ingyenes wifihozzáférést biztosító boltüzemeltető nem felel a felhasználók által elkövetett szerzői jogi jogsértésekért

A large number of cartridges have been stolen from a military warehouse in Armenia, local newspaper Arovat reports.

OPINION on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing an information exchange mechanism with regard to intergovernmental agreements and non-binding instruments between Member States and third countries in the field of energy and repealing Decision No 994/2012/EU
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Eduard Kukan

Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP

OPINION on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing an information exchange mechanism with regard to intergovernmental agreements and non-binding instruments between Member States and third countries in the field of energy and repealing Decision No 994/2012/EU
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Eduard Kukan

Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP

Grand connaisseur du service public, l’ex-chef de l’Etat est l’invité, jeudi 15 septembre, de l’émission politique de France 2.

Le gouvernement britannique a approuvé ce jeudi 15 septembre le projet de centrale nucléaire d'Hinkley Point. C'est un soulagement pour le groupe français EDF qui porte ce projet de double réacteur EPR, projet controversé de 21 milliards d'euros soutenu également par une compagnie chinoise. Selon une source française, le gouvernement britannique a toutefois soumis son accord à certaines conditions. 

The Korean Times newspaper has published an article titled “Nuclear facility in Armenia”, AzerTag reports.

Morningstar v Commission
Competition
The General Court of the European Union confirms the Commission’s decision to accept the commitments of Thomson Reuters intended to remedy its abuse of a dominant position in the market for consolidated real-time datafeeds

Morningstar / Commission
Concurrence
Le Tribunal de l’UE confirme la décision de la Commission de valider les engagements de Thomson Reuters visant à remédier à son abus de position dominante sur le marché des flux de données en temps réel consolidés

Morningstar / Kommission
Wettbewerb
Das Gericht der EU bestätigt die Entscheidung der Kommission, die Verpflichtungszusagen, die Thomson Reuters gemacht hat, um seinem Missbrauch einer beherrschenden Stellung auf dem Markt für konsolidierte EchtzeitDateneinspeisungen abzuhelfen, für verbindlich zu erklären

Morningstar kontra Bizottság
Verseny
Az EU Törvényszéke helybenhagyja a Bizottság azon határozatát, amely érvényessé nyilvánítja a Thomson Reuters arra irányuló kötelezettségvállalásait, hogy orvosolja az összesített valós idejű adatszolgáltatás piacán fennálló erőfölényével való visszaélést

Aloyan’s August 21 doping test showed the presence of tuaminoheptane (a nasal decongestant drug) in his body.

There is no getting away from it: wood is, and will remain crucial for meeting global energy demands, in particular those of the poor. Although wood provides ‘only’ about 10% of total global primary energy, it is the most important source of energy in many parts of the developing world. Around 2.8 billion people worldwide consume wood-based fuels on a daily basis. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), 70% of households depend on wood energy. In several SSA countries, it makes up to 90% of household energy mix, and represents up to 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP).
As for the current trends in population growth in SSA, the amount of wood energy consumed is likely to increase in future. Even with very optimistic assumptions about renewable energy development, in 2030 wood-based energy will still be two-thirds of what it is today. Charcoal will remain the main energy source of the urban population.
As they are the central component of SSA’s household energy mix, production and trade of wood energy have far-reaching social, economic and environmental repercussions. Many of the poor earn a living in firewood and charcoal value chains. Charcoal has been called an “engine of pro-poor economic growth” (Van der Plas & Abdel-Hamid, 2005, p. 297). However, typically uncontrolled wood extraction has made wood energy an important force of forest and biodiversity degradation. Moreover health is threatened by traditional use, particularly of firewood.
Many of the attempts in the past to control the wood energy sector have been short-sighted, top-down, and have failed. Most energy policies in SSA largely ignore the potential of wood energy as a source of reliable, storable, renewable and sustainable energy, and as the main and unavoidable energy supplier of the future. This must change!
This policy brief first outlines the typical wood energy value chains in SSA, while scrutinizing unsustainable practices in every segment of the value chain. It then sketches previous, often unsuccessful interventions to manage the sector and replace wood energy. It highlights the key role of location in shaping efforts to manage the sector. Subsequently, it provides condensed policy recommendations.
The primary findings of this analysis are the following:

• There is a strong case for pro-actively supporting the emergence of a sustainable wood energy sector. Wood energy must be recognized as an inter-sectoral issue, connected to forestry, energy, agriculture and land.
• Although new technologies to reduce wood and energy waste are important, governance issues remain key to attempts to manage wood fuel value chains.
• Previous attempts to upgrade the wood fuel value chains have been too narrow and have relied too strongly on technology and/or central state regulation and have not been able to control the sector under SSA conditions. In particular, relying on top-down prohibition, certification and central state control has disregarded the role of weak implementation capacities, local realities (informal community rules, power imbalances) and corruption in circumventing such measures.

For future approaches to be successful, they need to target the multi-level nature of the wood energy sector and provide more comprehensive and location-specific interventions.

« Ça fait 4,5 milliards d’années que le climat change », a déclaré l’ancien chef de l’Etat mercredi. Des propos « hallucinants » pour l’ex-patronne d’EELV, Emmanuelle Cosse.

While the economic situation in Azerbaijan, a post-Soviet Russian republic that has been going through a currency crisis, was difficult, the situation was not critical, Fitch senior director Paul Gamble said on Wednesday.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the opening ceremony of a new building of school No. 311 in Sabunchu district, Baku on September 15.

Oil prices rose on Thursday after falling around 3 percent in the previous session, supported by an unexpected fall in U.S. crude inventories.

A number of negative shocks have impaired economic performance in Azerbaijan