The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), has prepared this decision document that is consistent with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended, the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA, and USDA departmental and APHIS NEPA-implementing regulations and procedu...

a large number of maritime claims, are entitled to a legal protection that is established at the time of creation of the claim and subsequently, maritime lien in favour of the creditor. national regulations of maritime liens, dates back to ancient laws and customs and in order to removing differences of theses regulations, some international conventions on unification of certain rules relating ...

OBJECTIVE The present paper analyses the advances and challenges of the school feeding programme in Brazil (PNAE), as part of the Brazilian experience building up an integrated food and nutrition security national system. It explores the role of policy and regulatory frameworks in constructing quality service delivery and intersectoral integration. DESIGN Review of PNAE and federal government...

OBJECTIVE To review existing regulations and policies utilised by countries to enable patient access to orphan drugs. METHODS A review of the literature (1998 to 2014) was performed to identify relevant, peer-reviewed articles. Using content analysis, we synthesised regulations and policies for access to orphan drugs by type and by country. RESULTS Fifty seven articles and 35 countries were...

The effect of local land use regulations on housing markets has been the subject of extensive research and discussion among both urban economists and policymakers. However, very few studies distinguish between the effects on owner-occupied and rental housing. Since most lowand moderate-income families are renters, the effects of regulation on the rental market will have important implications f...

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information ("health data privacy regulations")' pursuant to a congressional mandate in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). 2 These regulations, promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), represent the first systematic national privacy protec-tions of health information. They p...

Sectors with a long regulatory tradition have recently experienced intense activity by multinationals whose international operations and relocation threats represent a new cause for concern for regulators. The present paper analyses a multinational serving two countries and being regulated by two uninformed national authorities. The firm is shown to favor, or cross-subsidize, the country with a...

A group of Colombian indigenous communities and Amacayacu National Park are cooperating to make regulations for sustainable use of their shared natural resources, especially the fish populations. To aid this effort, we are modeling the interactions among these communities and their ecosystem with the objective of predicting the stability of regulations, identifying potential failure modes, and ...

In a common law system, cases play a vital role in interpreting statutes, building arguments, organizing analyses, and crafting specific points of view. Legal research often begins with statutes or regulations, the primary law passed by the legislature or regulatory agency in the relevant jurisdiction. Cases in turn interpret those statutes and regulations. Cases may be the sole source of the l...

This paper investigates whether the efficiency effect of product market dispersion is a function of the infrastructural and policy environment. We hypothesize that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower government regulation may reduce transaction costs, intensifying the competition associated with a given market structure, and we use data from the recently lib...