The autonomy of the EU legal order and the law-making activities of international organizations. Some examples regarding the Council most recent practice. Research Papers in Law 03/2012

[Introduction.] It is generally believed that while the principle of the autonomy of the EU legal order, in the sense of constitutional and institutional autonomy that is to say what concerns the autonomous decision-making of the EU, has been clearly strengthened by the most recent jurisprudence of the Court of Justice (eg. Moxplant3, Intertanko or the Kadi/Al Baraakat judgements or the Opinion 1/2009 of the CJEU etc.) as well as, in my opinion, in many aspects by the Treaty of Lisbon, it is still valid to add that the principle of a favourable approach, stemming from the Court jurisprudence, for the enhanced openness of the EU legal order to international law has remained equally important for the EU4. On the other hand, it should be also seen that in a globalized world, and following the increased role of the EU as an international actor, its indispensable and crucial role concerning the creation of world (legal) order in many policy fields ( for example let's think about the G20 issues, the global economic and financial crisis, the role of the EU in promoting and protecting human rights worldwide, the implementation of the multilateral or regional conventional law, developed in the framework the UN (e.g. in the field of agriculture or environment etc) or what concerns the Kyoto process on climate change or the conservation of marine biological resources at international level etc), it seems reasonable and justified to submit that the influence, for example, of the law-making activities of the main stakeholder international organizations in the mentioned policy-areas on the EU (especially on the development of its constantly evolving legal order) or vice-versa the influence of the EU law-making practice on these international organizations is significant, in many aspects mutually interdependent and more and more remarkable. This tendency of the 21st century doesn't mean, however, in my view, that the notion of the autonomy of the EU legal order would have been weakened by this increasing interaction between international law and EU law over the passed years. This contribution is going to demonstrate and prove these departuring points by giving some concrete examples from the most recent practice of the Council (all occuring either in the second half of 2009 or after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty), and which relate to two very important policy areas in the EU, namely the protection of human rights and the Common Fishery Policy.

Differences in larval nutritional requirements and female oviposition preference reflect the order of fruit colonization of Zaprionus indianus and Drosophila simulans

Species coexist using the same nutritional resource by partitioning it either in space or time, but few studies explore how species-specific nutritional requirements allow partitioning. Zaprionus indianus and Drosophila simulans co-exist in figs by invading the fruit at different stages; Z. indianus colonizes ripe figs, whereas D. simulans oviposits in decaying fruit. Larvae feed on yeast growing on the fruit, which serves as their primary protein source. Because yeast populations increase as fruit decays, we find that ripe fruit has lower protein content than rotting fruit. Therefore, we hypothesized that Z. indianus and D. simulans larvae differ in their dietary requirements for protein. We used nutritional geometry to assess the effects of protein and carbohydrate concentration in the larval diet on life history characters in both species. Survival, development time, and ovariole number respond differently to the composition of the larval diet, with Z. indianus generally performing better across a wider range of protein concentrations. Correspondingly, we found that Z. indianus females preferred to lay eggs on low protein foods, while D. simulans females chose higher protein foods for oviposition when competing with Z. indianus. We propose the different nutritional requirements and oviposition preference of these two species allows them to temporally partition their habitat.

Report regarding investigation directed to be made by the President in his Executive order of November 27, 1933, approving the Code of fair competition for the motion picture industry.

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Referee's memorandum and award in the matter of: Whether further wage increases are justified ... in relation to employees represented by 15 cooperating railway labor organizations, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and railroads as represented by Eastern, Western and Southeastern carriers; Conference committees, before Paul N. Guthrie.

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Schedule of two thousand American historical nuggets taken : from the Stevens diggings in September 1870 and set down in chronological order of printing from 1490 to 1800 [i.e. 1776] ; described and recommended as a supplement to any printed Bibliotheca Americana /

A list of about 1400 titles not found in John Carter Brown's Bibliotheca Americana.

Journal of a tour in the "Indian territory," : performed by order of the Domestic Committee of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the spring of 1844, by their secretary and general agent.

Disbound Original Held in Oak Street Library Facility.

Investigation of the flow over simple bodies at Mach numbers of the order of 20 /

"It is shown that adequate means are available for calculating inviscid direct and induced pressures on simple axisymmetric bodies at zero angle of attack. The extent to which viscous effects can alter these predictions is indicated. It is also shown that inviscid induced pressures can significantly affect the stability of blunt, two-dimensional flat wings at low angles of attack. However, at high angles of attack, the inviscid induced pressure effects are negligible."

Desiccated alimentary vegetable substances : reports of two boards of navy officers, convened by order of William A. Graham, at the U.S. Navy yard, New York, in Nov. 1851, and at Washington City, in May, 1852 ... /

"To examine certain desiccated alimentary vegetable substances, prepared, after the process of M. Masson ... and, after the process of Dr. J.N. Gannal ... the conserve of milk, prepared by M. de Lignac ... and also the preserved potato of D. and H. Edwards and Co."

Russell on the power and duty of an arbitrator and the law of submissions and awards : and references under order of court, with an appendix of forms, precedents, and statutes.

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A collection of millennial hymns : adapted to the present order of the church.

Includes index.

Album of intstructive pieces for the pianoforte. Arranged in progressive order, from the easiest to the medium grade of difficulty, with new phrasing, fingering and appropriate marks of expression,

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Parsifal : its origin in the old legend and its musical motives explained in order of their development /

Translation of Richard Wagner's Bühnenweihfestspiel "Parsifal," nach Sagenstoff und musikalischer Entwickelung in den Motiven dargestellt.

Report to the President by the Emergency Board appointed June 16, 1945 Pursuant to section 10 of the Railway Labor Act as amended to investigate an unadjusted dispute between the Georgia & Florida Railroad, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors of America, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Augusta, Ga., July 7, 1945.

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