If ratified, it proposes to improve "the enforcement of intellectual property rights" in participating countries.
If ratified by Congress, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, seabed mining, and fishing rights.
Everything you can do legally today in the EU, you would be legally able to do if Acta is ratified.
Mr Erdogan insists that the protocols can only be ratified if Armenia withdraws from seven regions it occupies around the enclave.
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If CES 2013 ratified the cell phone as the preferred control point of the personal network, then it also demonstrated how the device pantheon is expanding.
Trade, already growing between us, will expand much more if these agreements are ratified.
Obi will become a United player in January if the transfer is ratified by Fifa's dispute resolution chamber.
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If the deal is ratified in January, it will bring the final-holdout flight attendants into the fold with Continental's other unions that have already agreed to cost-reduction plans.
If the deal is ratified, training camp and free agent signings could commence as soon as Dec. 9 with the first games of the shortened 66-game season scheduled for Christmas Day.
But even if new laws are ratified by the mainly male constitutional Loya Jirga (grand assembly) that will consider the document, there is some doubt the measures will be enforced, correspondents say.
But, in response to Mr Brown's Commons statement on 2 November, opposition leader David Cameron told the PM that the British people would not accept Tony Blair's installation as president of the European Council, a position that will be created if the treaty is ratified.
True, the parliament has powers over EU legislation that will be further increased if the Lisbon treaty is ratified, but for the most part its loonier fringes can be safely ignored by their saner colleagues.
Thus, if the U.S. ratified the treaty, it would be held to a different standard than other nations.
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Such antics might be little more than a legal curiosity were it not for the fact that the opposition Conservative Party in Britain has said it would, once in office, call a referendum on Lisbon if the treaty has not been ratified by all 27 EU members.
The three members that abstained objected to a paragraph within the resolution that would not allow the International Criminal Court to punish soldiers in the multinational force who commit crimes if they are from countries that have not ratified the treaty that created the ICC.
If - as expected - the bill is ratified by parliament and by the hard-line Guardian Council, it will make Iran a member of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, which was created in 1999 and came into force in 2002.
If approved by two-thirds of both House and Senate and ratified by three quarters of the states, would be our nation's 28th amendment, among other bedrock amendments.
Opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron has promised that one of his first acts as prime minister would be to hold a referendum on the treaty if there is still a country left in Europe that has not ratified it.
If you'll recall, G.hn was just recently ratified by the ITU as a new global standard for HDTV home networking, and while it's tough to tell how it'll react to HomePlug AV vying for those same customers, we can already see a battle shaping up.
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But here comes the Klaus question: if speed is of the essence, should EU governments that want to see the Lisbon Treaty ratified give Mr Klaus what he wants at the October summit?
If England want a replacement to be involved in Friday's game, such a move would need to be ratified by 2000 BST on Wednesday, 48 hours before kick-off against South Africa.
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