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  • 61Knowledge Ecology International — (KEI) est une organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) américaine, fondée par Ralph Nader en 1995 sous le nom de Consumer Project on Technology. KEI est dirigé aujourd hui par James Love. Active dans le secteur dit du public interest law, elle… …

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  • 62congressional-executive agreement — An accord made by joint authority of the Congress and the president covering areas of international law that are not within the ambit of treaties. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. congressional executive agreement …

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  • 63treaty — trea·ty n pl treaties [Anglo French treté, from Middle French traité, from Medieval Latin tractatus, from Latin, handling, treatment, from tractare to treat, handle] 1: the action of treating and esp. of negotiating 2: an agreement or arrangement …

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  • 64Basel I — Known as the Basel Accord. Policy agreement on the supervision of banks, developed in 1988 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The Accord aims to achieve international convergence in the measurement of capital adequacy of banks and to… …

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  • 65convention — con·ven·tion n 1: an agreement between nations for regulation of matters affecting all of them 2: an agreement enforceable in law: contract 3: an assembly of persons met for a common purpose; esp: a meeting of the delegates of a political party… …

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  • 66contract — con·tract 1 / kän ˌtrakt/ n [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com with, together + trahere to draw] 1: an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to… …

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  • 67misrepresentation — mis·rep·re·sen·ta·tion /mis ˌre pri ˌzen tā shən, zən / n: an intentionally or sometimes negligently false representation made verbally, by conduct, or sometimes by nondisclosure or concealment and often for the purpose of deceiving, defrauding,… …

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  • 68novation — no·va·tion /nō vā shən/ n [Late Latin novatio renewal, legal novation, from Latin novare to make new, from novus new]: the substitution by mutual agreement of one obligation for another with or without a change of parties and with the intent to… …

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  • 69cartel — I noun accord, accordance, affiliation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, association, bloc, body corporate, coadjuvancy, coalition, colleagueship, combination, combine, common consent, community of interest, compact, concert, concord,… …

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  • 70union — n 1: an act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one; esp: the formation of a single political unit from two or more separate and individual units 2: something that is made one: something formed by a combining or coalition of …

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