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Until the 1990s, Europe's regulation was less strict than in the United States, one turning point being cited as the export of the United States' first GM-containing soy harvest in 1996. The GM soy made up about 2% of the total harvest at the time, and Eurocommerce and European food retailers required that it be separated. [2]
Because state laws exist, polygamy is not actively prosecuted at the federal level. [3] Many US courts (e.g. Turner v. S., 212 Miss. 590, 55 So.2d 228) treat bigamy as a strict liability crime: in some jurisdictions, a person can be convicted of a felony even if he reasonably believed he had only one legal spouse. For example, if a person has ...
In Switzerland polygamous marriages conducted abroad may be accepted or rejected on a case-by-case basis; [146] see § Europe. In Canada, both bigamy (article 290 of the Criminal code of Canada) [147]) and de facto polygamy (article 293 of the Criminal Code) [148] are illegal, but there are provisions in the property law of at least the ...
1. Ritz Crackers. Wouldn't ya know, a cracker that's all the rage in America is considered an outrage abroad. Ritz crackers are outlawed in several other countries, including the United Kingdom ...
The law aims to reduce the country's production and use of single-use plastic massively and to promote a more circular economic structure. Similarly to the United States' Reduce, reuse and recycle efforts, the anti-waste law acts similarly in promoting more eco-friendly consumer behaviors as well as holding producers to the same standards. On ...
Since 1991, Europe has saved €1.8 trillion ($1.9 trillion) as a result of lower defense spending — a so-called “peace dividend” — allowing an expansion in European welfare states “to a ...
Council Regulation 1638/98 made changes to the organisation of the olive oil market in the EU. [5] See Unión de Pequeños Agricultores; Council Regulation (EC) 2679/98 of 7 December 1998, on the functioning of the internal market in relation to the free movement of goods among the Member States, was aimed at preventing obstacles to the free movement of goods attributable to "action or ...
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