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EU: the EU-Canada Comprehensive Trade Agreement (CETA)’s existence under threat by French Parliament

Import and Trade Remedies

For several years, the European Commission and the Canadian government negotiated a comprehensive free trade agreement, including new types of provisions on investment. It was the first ever ambitious free-trade agreement that the EU concluded with a G7 country (Japan and the UK were concluded later).

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Whistleblower Suits Lead to Massive Rite Aid Settlements Relating to Opioid Dispensing and Reporting Rebates

Whistleblower Network News

According to the government, Rite Aid and its subsidiaries “improperly reported to CMS portions of rebates received from manufacturers as bona fide service fees, even though manufacturers did not negotiate with the defendants to pay such fees.” million and grant the government an allowed, unsubordinated, general unsecured claim of $401.8

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Should FTAs open and close (or only open) international procurement markets?

How to Crack a Nut

Let’s imagine that A, a party with several existing FTAs with third countries covering procurement, manages to negotiate the first FTA signed by B liberalising the latter’s procurement markets.

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Guiding Cases 199-201 Issued by the PRC Supreme People’s Court—Further Steps Toward a Pro-Arbitration Regime

Kluwer Arbitration

and Singapore 2) For example, under the Payment Services Act 2019 of Singapore , cryptocurrencies are considered digital payment tokens regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In the authors’ view, that remains an open question. As a case in point, in Sun Dingshang v. As a case in point, in Sun Dingshang v.

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Ivalua Awarded Best P2P Specialist Provider at World Procurement Awards 2020

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Ivalua also received this award in 2019. Procure-to-Pay technology has been particularly important during the Covid-19 pandemic as it helps organisations capture negotiated savings to protect profitability, ensure employees are productive when remote and better manage cash flow, among other benefits. in by Forrester Research Inc.

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Ivalua Awarded Best P2P Solutions Specialist Provider at World Procurement Awards 2020

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Ivalua also received this award in 2019. Procure-to-Pay software has been particularly important during the Covid-19 pandemic as it helps organisations capture negotiated savings to protect profitability, ensure employees are productive when remote and better manage cash flow, among other benefits. in by Forrester Research Inc.

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Cross-Fertilisation in International Commercial Arbitration, Investor-State Arbitration and Mediation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

Kluwer Arbitration

The relative paucity of Med-Arb clauses in cross-border contracts involving parties from some parts of the world may also help to explain the relatively few ratifications of the 2019 Singapore Mediation Convention. The overall growth in Med-Arb provisions in ICA has not yet had much impact on investment treaties and therefore on ISA.