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Updated: June 26, 2012 (Initial publication: June 19, 2012)

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In the United States, the judgment of 6 June 2012 considered that Google was free to use Java to build its own computer system, because the first were not patentable.

In the United States, a trial opposes Oracle, applicant, Google, defendant. Indeed, Google has developed its computer system Android from elements of Java. Oracle holds a series of patents on Java and considers that, in doing so; Google infringed it's right to intellectual property. The financial stake of the trial is considerable. The issue of principle also, since it is a question of whether mathematical algorithm of departure was patentable, or at the very least protected by copyright law. Third rank of attack, as presented to the jury, Oracle argued that, even if one were to consider that it was not "owner", Google infringed the general rule of "fair use", leading to the beginning of the general field of the responsibility. In the first instance, the judgment of 9 June 2012 dismissed all, believing that technique debated was not quite original but a technique allowing two computer languages pre-existing dialogue, which is not copyrightable, and that a third party may use. This case is exemplary of the innovation place, as the case law to be inserted into the markets and industries. Oracle will appeal.

Updated: June 20, 2012 (Initial publication: June 14, 2012)

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On 6 June 2012, European Commission has authorized by exemption from the prohibition of State aids, the increase of the scope of the State guaranty to Dexia Bank. Its authorization has effect until September 30, 2012, date on which the Commission will examine the banking resolution plan also submitted.

On 6 June 2012, the European Commission has extended the authorization given to France, Belgium and Luxembourg to bring their State guaranty to Dexia Bank SA and DLC. Further, the Commission agreed to raise the ceiling of the guaranty, joint but non several, of EUR 15 billion which brings the ceiling allowed to EUR 55 billion. But the permission is only until September 30. This might coincide with the time where the Commission will take a position on the plan of "orderly resolution" of this systemic bank. It justifies its flexibility itself in its exemption from the prohibition of State aids, by the fact that it is a systemic bank and that a resolution plan will be submitted soon, but it raises in advance competition problems.This justifies all the more draft texts on the mechanisms which must be specific to the systemic failing financial institutions.

Updated: June 14, 2012 (Initial publication: June 17, 2012)

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Release Work : Explaining Compliance. Business Responses to Regulation

Complete reference :Christine Parker , Vibeke L. Nielsen (eds), Explaining Compliance. Business Responses to Regulation, Elgard Publishing, UK, 2011, 400 p.

Updated: June 12, 2012 (Initial publication: June 5, 2012)

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The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CRBC) had set a deadline of the end of May 2012 a completion of self-assessment by five Chinese banks of State for bad debt.

A Chinese economic newspaper revealed, by an anonymous source, that the Chinese banking regulator, ordered end of 2011, five first Chinese financial institutions to proceed in the determination and the quality of loans granted, so they rank their bad debt. The control by the regulator through the self-assessment will be made from end of May 2012.

Updated: June 11, 2012 (Initial publication: June 4, 2012)

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The European Medicine Agency (Agence européenne du Médicament - EMA) offers since May 31, 2012 a website identifying side effects of drugs allowed on European Union markets, data provided by national regulatory authority and pharmaceutical laboratories.

The European Medicine Agency (Agence européenne du Médicament - EMA) launched on May 31, 2012 a database, available on an Internet site, indicating "suspicious side effects" of drugs allowed on European Union markets. The information comes both of the different authorities of national regulation of drugs and pharmaceutical companies who spontaneously reported these side effects.

Updated: Oct. 5, 2012 (Initial publication: Sept. 18, 2012)

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Le 17 septembre, le président de la France et le président du Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ont posé la nécessité d'une régulation des marchés des produits agricoles

La régulation des marchés agricoles, devenus fortement spéculatifs, est un enjeu technique et politique. Le 17 septembre 2012, le Président français, entouré de ses ministres, a reçu le directeur général du F.A.O. Ils ont insisté sur la nécessité de réguler non seulement le prix des matières premières agricoles, mais encore de constituer des réserves et de faciliter des réformes structurelles dans certains pays, notamment autour de la zone du Sahel. En tout cas, il est acquis que le mécanisme de l'offre et de la demande ne peut être laissé à lui-même.

Updated: Sept. 25, 2012 (Initial publication: Sept. 25, 2012)

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Les Nouvelles régulations électriques

Les Nouvelles régulations électriques

Updated: Sept. 17, 2012 (Initial publication: Sept. 9, 2012)

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On 5 September 2012, the Cameroonian electricity regulator, estimated that the public operator fails to meet its obligations

In Cameroon, the electricity sector is organized around a public operator, the Aes-Sonel, which the State conceded the transmission and distribution of electricity. The “Agence de Régulation du Secteur de l’Energie – ARSEL ( Cameroons Regulatory Agency Electricity Sector ) is responsible for ensuring the proper functioning of the system, quality of service and consumer protection. As in other African countries for the moment the country suffers from a lack of electrification planning and a lack of access to electricity, a significant portion of the population. However, the regulator has commissioned a survey from June 4 to August 16, 2012. He was released on September 5 which he says the study shows that the operator doesn’t provide public service obligations correctly towards consumers. The operator responds by saying that on the one hand the study is not conclusive and that other conditions, external to him, do not bring electricity to everyone but it’s not its fault.

Updated: Sept. 14, 2012 (Initial publication: Sept. 16, 2012)

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Work release : DUDLEY, Susan E. and BRITO Jerry, Regulation : A Primer

Updated: Sept. 10, 2012 (Initial publication: May 31, 2012)

Sectorial Analysis

The European Commission approved on May 16, 2012 a merger control through a takeover by three powerful gas companies of an Angolan company, become a joint-venture, in the area of liquefied natural gas in Angola, because the access of the third-party to the system of regasification is preserved.

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