Heritage materials can exist well beyond the limits suggested by national legislation or international conventions.
In many cases a possible solution is offered by national legislation.
According to the Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist, adopted by UNESCO in 1980, Member States should see that artists are unequivocally accorded the protection provided for in this respect by international and national legislation concerning human rights.
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National competition laws are supplemented by pan-European legislation.
Fierce opposition by the National Rifle Association makes passage of any significant gun legislation uncertain.
We have legislation for a great national emergency passed by the government called the Civil Contingencies Act.
"We believe the time has come for Congress to move quickly to enact national RPS legislation, " said the letter signed by General Electric, Google, Shell's wind energy division, BP America and the Sierra Club, among others.
What's more, legislation approved by the European Union last year that requires national rail systems to open up to operators from other countries by 2010, will further push development of a European network of high-speed rail.
And a Tory promise to restore national control over social and employment legislation has been replaced by a more nuanced commitment to "examine the balance of the EU's existing competences" and, in particular, to "work to limit" the application of the working time directive.
Another area for reform concerns the Council of Ministers: countries will have to accept the wider use of majority voting there, if legislation is not to be blocked wholesale by a proliferation of national vetoes.
Of course, he was referring to the fact that it would be unprecedented in the modern era of the Supreme Court, since the New Deal era, for the Supreme Court to overturn legislation passed by Congress designed to regulate and deal with a national economic -- a matter of national economic importance like our health care system.
Legislation freeing police to concentrate on local priorities by setting up a new National Crime Agency, to deal with (for example) organised crime and border policing, is to be brought forward soon.
Her legislation is opposed by the nation's powerful gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association.
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Fuzzy, leave-the-details-to-be-sorted-out-by-the-courts legislation is attractive to the Congressman who wants credit for addressing a national problem but does not have the time (or perhaps the votes) to grapple with the nitty-gritty .
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But the legislation was not passed by the House, where it was countered by a concerted lobbying effort by the National Rifle Association and its congressional allies.
The reform legislation still contains a controversial ban on so-called "soft money, " the money raised by national, state and local parties and purportedly used only for party-building and get-out-the-vote drives, rather than direct help for candidates.
As a minority of the Senate considers whether to continue to jeopardize reenactment of the Patriot Act, a distinguished group of the legislation's supporters weighed in today at a press conference convened by two former Attorneys General at the National Press Club.
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