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Every damn time I put flags like those I always get things about Utah like I even care about it. |
lOoK I cArE aLrIGt! but i am very mad. |
I'm still waiting on someone first. |
OK But omg Killorn held onto Matthews jersey for around 15 seconds that's a holding penalty, along with the Kerfoot elbow to the face and Bunting elbow at the net. Holl was also checked in the defensive zone, Holl, Bunting, and Kerfoot didn't have the PUCK, that is so many minor penalty's! |
Any tips to quickly get better at the game? What do I take as a priority, the economy or the ecosystem? |
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Thats it, i quit Toronto. The free romanians, Orcuo, and Biwaki |
Welcome to NationStates and The South Pacific! I donʻt think thereʻs any getting better at it, per say. Prioritizing the economy will come at the cost of the environment, or your peopleʻs health or safety, depending on the issue youʻre addressing. Every solution to an issue has an accompanying cost, itʻs up to you to decide to prioritize is up to your personal values. Have fun! It looks like English, but I donʻt understand what any of it means 😭😭😭 |
I am going to Tuzla The free romanians and Biwaki |
The borrowed laptop had f*cked itself up. The free romanians and Biwaki |
MISSISSAUGA The free romanians and Biwaki |
Seriously, I only opened a. PSD file and tg is borrowed laptop decides to have a seizure, now it's just a black screen and the cursor. I AM IN DISTRESS. The free romanians, Biwaki, and The union of new rhodesia |
Hold your power button for a few seconds Great United Columbia and The union of new rhodesia |
PREAMBLE Promised islands The Axolotl Empire of Andrendia The Republic of The free romanians The Goosedom of Canadian Dominion The Commonwealth of Esterwood The Place of A Place Somewhere The United Viking Empire of Colonla The Military Industrial Complex of Sjorve Ned The Tired Individual of Evinea The Slab follower of Drew Durrnil The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand The Third Empire of The New Dacians The Social Kingdom of North-East France Kingson island Lirozonia Aezealia The union of new rhodesia The land of the eagles The Golden Imperial Federation of PsiCorps The Khalifat Islamiya Syurawia of Paganan The Federation of Msje The polandball The Authoritarian Wrath of Anglo-Franco Union Biwaki The Technocratic Republic of Hadrex Coplaistein The Nagisa of Vulbania The Democracy of The Republic of Konsa The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of British Bharat The islands of the indian and pacific The british isles and the north sea Mighty imperial japan The United Tribes of Petea Ardenswije The People's Federation of Somurias Lile ulie islands The People's Socialist Union of New Xartoia The Federal Republic of Marlducro Superlols The Confederate technocracy of Great United Columbia Hereinafter referred to as “the Parties”; Livelia Hereinafter referred to as “the Observers”; Recognizing their longstanding friendship and strong economic and trade relationship and desiring to strengthen their strategic cooperative partnership; Convinced that a free trade area will create an expanded and stable market for goods and services and a stable and predictable environment for investment, thus enhancing the competitiveness of their firms in global markets; Sharing the belief that a free trade agreement shall produce mutual benefits to each Party and contribute to the expansion and development of international trade; Establishing clear and mutually advantageous rules governing their trade; Desiring to raise living standards, promote economic growth and stability, create new employment opportunities and improve the general welfare of the Parties by expanding trade and investment between the Parties; Mindful that economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development and that closer economic partnership can play an important role in promoting sustainable development; and Seeking to facilitate and enhance regional economic cooperation and integration; have agreed as follows: CHAPTER 1 INITIAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS Article 1.1: Establishment of a Free Trade Area Consistent with Article Cultural Cooperation Agreement 2032, the Parties hereby establish a free trade area. Article 1.2: Objectives The Parties conclude this Agreement, among others, for the purposes of: (a) encouraging expansion and diversification of trade between the Parties; (b) eliminating the barriers to trade in, and facilitating the cross-border movement of, goods and services between the Parties; (c) promoting fair competition in the Parties’ markets; (d) creating new employment opportunities; and (e) creating a framework for furthering bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation to expand and enhance the benefits of this Agreement. Article 1.3: Relation to Other Agreements The Parties affirm their existing rights and obligations with respect to each other under the WTO Agreement and other existing agreements to which both Parties are party. Article 1.4: Extent of Obligations The Parties shall ensure that all necessary measures are taken in order to give effect to the provisions of this Agreement in their respective territories, including ensuring that their respective local governments observe all obligations and commitments under this Agreement. Article 1.5: Territorial Application With regard to the Parties, this Agreement shall apply to the entire customs territory of the Parties, including land, internal waters, territorial sea and air space, and any area beyond its territorial sea within which it may exercise sovereign rights or jurisdiction in accordance with international law and its domestic law. CHAPTER 2 INVESTMENT Article 2.1: Promotion and Protection of Investments 1. Each Party shall encourage and create favorable conditions for investors of the other Party to make investments in its territory. 2. Each Party shall, subject to its rights to exercise powers in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations, including those with regard to foreign ownership and control, admit investment of investors of the other Party. Article 2.2: National Treatment 1. Each Party shall in its territory accord to investors of the other Party and to covered investment treatment no less favorable than that it accords in like circumstances to its own investors and their investments with respect to investment activities. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to non-conforming measures, if any, existing at the date of entry into force of this Chapter maintained by each Party under its laws and regulations, or any amendment or modification to such measures, provided that the amendment or modification does not decrease the conformity of the measure as it existed immediately before the amendment or modification. Treatment granted to covered investment once admitted shall in no case be less favorable than that granted at the time when the original investment was made. 3. Each Party shall take, where applicable, all appropriate steps to progressively remove all the non-conforming measures referred to in paragraph 2. Article 2.3: Most-Favored-Nation Treatment 1. Each Party shall in its territory accord to investors of the other Party and to covered investments treatment no less favorable than that it accords in like circumstances to investors of any non-Party and to their investments with respect to investment activities and the matters relating to the admission of investment in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 2.1. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not be construed so as to oblige a Party to extend to investors of the other Party and covered investments any preferential treatment resulting from its membership of: (a) any customs union, free trade area, monetary union, similar international agreement leading to such union or free trade area, or other forms of regional economic cooperation; (b) any international agreement or arrangement for facilitating small scale trade in border areas; or (c) any bilateral and multilateral international agreements involving aviation, fishery and maritime matters including salvage. 3. It is understood that the treatment accorded to investors of any non-Party and to their investments as referred to in paragraph 1 does not include treatment accorded to investors of any non-Party and to their investments by provisions concerning the settlement of investment disputes between a Party and investors of any non-Party that are provided for in other international agreements. Article 2.4: Minimum Standard of Treatment 1. Each Party shall accord to covered investments treatment in accordance with customary international law, including fair and equitable treatment and full protection and security. 2. For greater certainty, paragraph 1 prescribes the customary international law minimum standard of treatment of aliens as the minimum standard of treatment to be afforded to covered investments. The concepts of “fair and equitable treatment” and “full protection and security” do not require treatment in addition to or beyond that which is required by that standard, and do not create additional substantive rights. The obligation in paragraph 1 to provide: (a) “fair and equitable treatment” includes the obligation not to deny justice in criminal, civil, or administrative adjudicatory proceedings in accordance with the principle of due process of law; and (b) “full protection and security” requires each Party to provide the level of police protection required under customary international law. 3. A determination that there has been a breach of another provision of this Agreement, or of a separate international agreement, does not establish that there has been a breach of this Article. 4. Each Party shall accord to investors of the other Party, and to covered investments, non-discriminatory treatment with respect to measures it adopts or maintains relating to losses suffered by investments in its territory owing to war or other armed conflict, or revolt, insurrection, riot, or other civil strife. 5. Notwithstanding paragraph 4, if an investor of a Party, in the situations referred to in paragraph 4, suffers a loss in the territory of the other Party resulting from: (a) requisitioning of its covered investment or part thereof by the latter’s forces or authorities; or (b) destruction of its covered investment or part thereof by the latter’s forces or authorities, which was not required by the necessity of the situation, the latter Party shall provide the investor restitution, compensation, or both, as appropriate, for such loss. 6. Paragraph 4 does not apply to existing measures relating to subsidies or grants that would be inconsistent with Article 2.2. Article 2.5: Access to the Courts of Justice Each Party shall in its territory accord to investors of the other Party treatment no less favorable than that it accords in like circumstances to its own investors and investors of any non-Party, with respect to access to the courts of justice and administrative tribunals and agencies in all degrees of jurisdiction, both in pursuit and in defense of such investors’ rights. CHAPTER 3 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Article 3.1: General The Parties recognize the economic growth and opportunity that electronic commerce provides, the importance of promoting its use and development, and the applicability of the WTO Agreement to measures affecting electronic commerce. Article 3.2: Relation to Other Chapters In the event of any inconsistency between this Chapter and other Chapters, the other Chapters shall prevail to the extent of the inconsistency. Article 3.3: Customs Duties Each Party will maintain the current WTO practice of not imposing customs duties on electronic transmissions. Article 3.4: Electronic Authentication and Electronic Signatures 1. Neither Party may adopt or maintain legislation for electronic signature that would deny a signature legal validity solely on the basis that the signature is in electronic form. 2. Each Party shall maintain domestic legislation for electronic signature that permits: (a) parties to electronic transaction to mutually determine the appropriate electronic signature and authentication method; and (b) electronic authentication agencies to have the opportunity to prove in judicial or administrative authorities a claim that their electronic authentication to electronic transaction comply with legal requirements with respect to electronic authentication. 3. Each Party shall work towards the mutual recognition of digital certificates and electronic signatures. 4. Each Party shall encourage the use of digital certificates in the business sector. Article 3.5: Protection of Personal Information in Electronic Commerce Recognizing the importance of protecting personal information in electronic commerce, each Party shall adopt or maintain measures which ensure the protection of the personal information of the users of electronic commerce and share information and experience on the protection of personal information in electronic commerce. Article 3.6: Paperless Trading 1. Each Party shall endeavour to make trade administration documents available to the public in electronic form. 2. Each Party shall explore the possibility of accepting trade administration documents submitted electronically as the legal equivalent of the paper version of those documents. Article 3.7: Cooperation on Electronic Commerce 1. The Parties agree to share information and experience on issues related to electronic commerce, including, inter alia, laws and regulations, rules and standards, and best practices. 2. The Parties shall encourage cooperation in research and training activities to enhance the development of electronic commerce. 3. The Parties shall encourage business exchanges, cooperative activities and joint electronic commerce projects. 4. The Parties shall actively participate in regional and multilateral fora to promote the development of electronic commerce in a cooperative manner. CHAPTER 4 COMPETITION Article 4.1: Objectives Each Party understands that proscribing anti-competitive business practices of enterprises, implementing competition policies and cooperating on competition issues contribute to preventing the benefits of trade liberalization from being undermined and to promoting economic efficiency and consumer welfare. Article 4.2: Competition Laws and Authorities 1. Each Party shall maintain or adopt competition laws that promote and protect the competitive process in its market by proscribing anti-competitive business practices. Each Party shall maintain an authority or authorities responsible for the enforcement of its national competition laws. 2. Each Party shall also take appropriate actions, according to each Party's relevant laws and regulations with respect to anti-competitive business practices, which will prevent the benefits of trade liberalization from being undermined. Article 4.3: Principles in Law Enforcement 1. Each Party shall be consistent with the principles of transparency, non-discrimination, and procedural fairness in the competition law enforcement. 2. Each Party shall treat persons who are not persons of the Party no less favorably than persons of the Party in like circumstances in the competition law enforcement. 3. Each Party shall ensure that: (a) a person subject to an investigation to determine whether conduct violates its competition laws or what administrative sanctions or remedies should be ordered for violation of such laws is afforded the opportunity to present opinion or evidence in its defense in the investigation process. (b) persons subject to the imposition of a sanction or remedy for violation of its competition laws should be given the opportunity to seek review of the sanction or remedy through administrative reconsideration and/or administrative lawsuit in accordance with each Party’s laws. Article 4.4: Transparency 1. Each Party shall make public, including on the Internet, its laws and regulations concerning competition policy, including procedural rules for an investigation. 2. Each Party shall ensure that all final administrative decisions finding a violation of its competition laws are in written form and set out any relevant findings of fact and legal basis on which the decision is based. 3. Each Party shall endeavor to make public the decisions and any orders implementing them in accordance with its own laws and regulations. The version of the decisions or orders that the Party makes available to the public shall not contain business confidential information or other information that is protected by its law from public disclosure. Article 4.5: Application of Competition Laws 1. This Chapter applies to all undertakings of each Party. 2. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from establishing or maintaining a public enterprise, entrusting enterprises with special or exclusive rights or maintaining such rights. 3. With respect to public enterprises and enterprises entrusted with special rights or exclusive rights: (a) neither Party shall adopt or maintain any measure contrary to the principles contained in Article 4.2; and (b) the Parties shall ensure that such enterprises are subject to the competition laws, in so far as the application of these principles and competition laws does not obstruct the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks assigned to them. Article 4.6: Cooperation in Law Enforcement 1. The Parties recognize the importance of cooperation and coordination in competition field, to promote effective competition law enforcement. Accordingly, the Parties shall cooperate through notification, consultation, exchange of information, and technical cooperation. 2. The Parties recognize the importance of cooperation on matters related to their consumer protection laws. Accordingly, the Parties may exchange and communicate consumer protection information for the purpose of better protecting consumer’s rights and interests. Article 4.7: Notification 1. Each Party, through its competition authority or authorities, shall notify the other Party of an enforcement activity if it considers that such enforcement activity may substantially affect the other Party's important interests. 2. Provided that it is not contrary to the Parties’ competition laws and does not affect any investigation being carried out, the Parties shall endeavor to notify at an early stage and in a detailed manner which is enough to permit an evaluation in the light of the interests of the other Party. 3. The Parties undertake to exert their best efforts to ensure that notifications are made in the circumstances set out above, taking into account the administrative resources available to them. Article 4.8: Consultation 1. To foster understanding between the Parties, or to address specific matters that arise under this Chapter, each Party shall, on request of the other Party, enter into consultations regarding representations made by the other Party. In its request, the Party shall indicate, if relevant, how the matter affects trade or investment between the Parties. 2. The Party to which a request for consultations has been addressed, shall accord full and sympathetic consideration to the concerns raised by the other Party. 3. To facilitate discussion of the matter that is the subject of the consultations, each Party shall endeavor to provide relevant non-confidential information to the other Party. Article 4.9: Exchange of Information 1. Each Party shall endeavor to, upon request of the other Party, provide information to facilitate effective enforcement of their respective competition laws, provided that it does not affect any ongoing investigation and is compatible with the laws and regulations governing the agencies possessing the information. 2. Each Party shall maintain the confidentiality of any information provided as confidential by the competition authority of the other Party and shall not disclose such information to any entity that is not authorized by the Party providing information. 3. On request of a Party, each Party shall make available to the other Party public information concerning its exemptions and immunities to its competition laws, provided that the request specifies the particular goods or services and markets of concern, and includes indicia that the exemption or immunity may hinder trade liberalization between the Parties. Article 4.10: Technical Cooperation The Parties may promote technical cooperation, including exchange of experiences, capacity building through training programs, workshops and research collaborations for the purpose of enhancing each Party’s capacity related to competition policy and law enforcement. Article 4.11: Independence of Competition Law Enforcement This Chapter should not intervene with the independence of each Party in enforcing its respective competition laws. Article 4.12: Dispute Settlement 1. If a Party considers that a given practice continues to affect trade in the sense of this Chapter, it may request consultation to the other Party in the Joint Commission with a view to facilitating a resolution of the matter. 2. Neither Party shall have recourse to Chapter 20 (Dispute Settlement) for any matters arising under this Chapter. CHAPTER 5 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS Article 5.1: Objectives 1. The objectives of this Chapter are: (a) to facilitate international trade and economic, social and cultural development through the dissemination of ideas, technology and creative works; (b) to provide certainty for right holders and users of intellectual property over the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights; and (c) to facilitate the enforcement of intellectual property rights with a view, inter alia, to eliminating trade in goods infringing intellectual property rights and incentivizing research. 2. Rights should strike a balance between the legitimate interest of the right holders and the public at large. The Parties recognize that the protection and enforcement of intellectual property Article 5.2: General Principles 1. The Parties shall grant and ensure adequate, effective, transparent and non- discriminatory protection of intellectual property rights, and provide for measures for the enforcement of such rights against infringement thereof, counterfeiting and piracy, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and the international agreements acceded to by both Parties. 2. In respect of all categories of intellectual property covered in this Chapter, the Parties shall accord to nationals of the other Party treatment no less favorable than it accords to its own nationals with regard to the protection. Exemptions from this obligation must be in accordance with the substantive provisions of Articles 3 and 5 of the TRIPS Agreement and Article 4(2) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty (hereinafter referred to as the “WPPT”). 3. The Parties may take appropriate measures, provided that they are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement and their international obligations, to prevent the abuse of intellectual property rights by right holders or the resort to practices which unreasonably restrain trade or adversely affect the international transfer of technology. Article 5.3: International Agreements The Parties affirm their commitments established in existing international agreements in the field of intellectual property rights to which both Parties are party, including the following: (a) the TRIPS Agreement; (b) the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1967) (the Paris Convention); (c) the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1971) (the Berne Convention); (d) the Patent Cooperation Treaty (1970), as amended in 1979, and modified in 1984 and 2001; (e) the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (1977), as amended in 1980; (f) the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (1957), as amended in 1979; (g) the Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks (1989); (h) the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty (1996); (i) the WIPO Copyright Treaty (1996) (hereinafter referred to as the “WCT”); (j) the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms (1971); Article 5.4: More Extensive Protection Each Party may, but shall not be obliged to, provide more extensive protection for, and enforcement of, intellectual property rights under its law than this Chapter requires, provided that the more extensive protection does not contravene this Chapter. Article 5.5: Intellectual Property and Public Health 1. The Parties recognize the principles established in the Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2), adopted on 14 November 2001 by the Ministerial Conference of the WTO and confirm that the provisions of this Chapter are without prejudice to this Declaration. In interpreting and implementing the rights and obligations under this Chapter, the Parties are entitled to rely upon the Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. 2. The Parties reaffirm their commitment to contribute to the international efforts to implement the Decision of the WTO General Council of 30 August 2003 on the Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, as well as the Protocol Amending the TRIPS Agreement, done at Geneva on 6 December 2005. CHAPTER 16 ENVIRONMENT AND TRADE Article 6.1: Context and Objectives 1. Recalling the Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment of 1972, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development of 1992, Agenda 21 of 1992, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation on Sustainable Development of 2002, and the Rio+20 Outcome Document “The Future We Want” of 2012, the Parties recognize that economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually supportive components of sustainable development. They underline the benefit of cooperation on environmental issues as part of a global approach to sustainable development. 2. The Parties reaffirm their commitments to promoting economic development in such a way as to contribute to the objective of sustainable development and to ensuring that this objective is integrated and reflected in their trade relationship. 3. The Parties agree that environmental standards should not be used for trade protectionist purposes. Article 6.2: Scope Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, this Chapter applies to the measures including laws and regulations adopted or maintained by the Parties for addressing environmental issues. Article 6.3: Levels of Protection 1. The Parties reaffirm each Party’s sovereign right to establish its own levels of environmental protection and its own environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify its environmental laws and policies. 2. Each Party shall seek to ensure that those laws and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection, and shall strive to continue to improve its respective levels of environmental protection. Article 6.4: Multilateral Environmental Agreements 1. The Parties recognize that multilateral environmental agreements (hereinafter referred to as “MEAs”) play an important role globally and domestically in protecting the environment. The Parties further recognize that this Chapter can contribute to realizing the goals of such agreements. 2. The Parties commit to consulting and cooperating as appropriate with respect to negotiations in the MEAs to which both Parties are party on trade-related environmental issues of mutual interest. 3. The Parties reaffirm their commitments to the effective implementation in their laws and practices of the MEAs to which both Parties are party. Article 6.5: Enforcement of Environmental Measures Including Laws and Regulations 1. A Party shall not fail to effectively enforce its environmental measures including laws and regulations, through a sustained or recurring course of action or inaction, in a manner affecting trade or investment between the Parties. 2. The Parties recognize that it is inappropriate to encourage trade or investment by weakening or reducing the protections afforded in its environmental laws, regulations, policies and practices. Accordingly, neither Party shall waive or otherwise derogate from such laws, regulations, policies and practices in a manner that weakens or reduces the protections afforded in those laws, regulations, policies and practices. 3. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to empower a Party’s authorities to undertake environmental law enforcement activities in the territory of the other Party. Article 6.6: Environmental Impact 1. The Parties commit to reviewing the impact of the implementation of this Agreement on environment, at appropriate time after the entry into force of this Agreement, through their respective participative processes and institutions. 2. The Parties, as appropriate, share information with the other Party on techniques and methods in reviewing the environmental impacts of this Agreement. CHAPTER 7 ECONOMIC COOPERATION Article 7.1: Objectives 1. The Parties agree to strengthen economic cooperation with the aim to enhance the mutual benefits of this Agreement in accordance with their national strategies and policy objectives. 2. The cooperation under this Chapter shall pursue the following objectives: (a) facilitating the implementation of this Agreement with a view to promoting economic and social development of the Parties; and (b) creating and enhancing sustainable trade and investment opportunities by facilitating trade and investment between the Parties and by strengthening competitiveness and innovation capacities, with a view to promoting sustainable economic growth and development. Article 7.2: Methods and Means 1. The Parties shall cooperate with the objective of identifying and employing effective methods and means for the implementation of this Chapter. To this end, the Parties shall coordinate efforts with relevant international organizations and develop, where practicable, synergies with other forms of bilateral cooperation already existing between the Parties. 2. Cooperation between the Parties will be implemented through the tools, resources, and mechanisms available to the Parties, following the existing rules and procedures through the competent bodies for the discharge of their cooperation relations. 3. The Parties may use instruments and modalities, such as exchange of information, experiences, and best practices, for the identification, development, and implementation of projects. Article 7.3: Non-application of Dispute Settlement Neither Party shall have recourse to Chapter 20 (Dispute settlement) for any matter arising under this Chapter. Article 7.4: Committee on Economic Cooperation 1. The Parties hereby establish a Committee on Economic Cooperation (hereinafter referred to as the “Committee”), comprising representatives of each Party. 2. The Committee shall meet at least once a year to consider matters arising under this Chapter, and may meet more frequently as the Parties may agree. 3. The Committee’s functions shall include, inter alia: (a) monitoring and assessing the progress in implementation of the projects agreed by the Parties under this Chapter; (b) making recommendations on the cooperative activities under this Chapter; and (c) reviewing, through regular reporting from the Parties, the operation of this Chapter and the application and fulfillment of its objectives. 4. The Committee may establish other groups, if necessary, under its auspices. CHAPTER 8 TRANSPARENCY Article 8.1: Publication 1. Each Party shall ensure that its measures respecting any matter covered by this Agreement are promptly published or otherwise made available in such a manner as to enable interested persons of the other Party and the other Party to become acquainted with them. 2. To the extent possible, each Party shall: (a) publish in advance any such measures that it proposes to adopt; and (b) provide a reasonable opportunity for interested persons of the other Party and the other Party to comment on such proposed measures. Article 8.2: Notification and Provision of Information 1. To the extent possible, each Party shall notify the other Party of any proposed or actual measure that the Party considers might materially affect the operation of this Agreement or otherwise substantially affect the other Party’s legitimate interests under this Agreement. 2. On the request of the other Party, a Party shall, within 30 days of receipt of the request, provide information and respond to questions pertaining to any actual or proposed measure that the other Party considers might materially affect the operation of this Agreement, whether or not the other Party has been previously notified of that measure. 3. The information referred to under this Article shall be considered to have been provided when it has been made available by appropriate notification to the WTO or when it has been made available on the official, public and fee-free accessible website of the Party concerned. 4. Any notification, request, or information under this Article shall be conveyed to the other Party through their Contact Points referred to in the Article 19.5 (Contact Points). Article 8.3: Administrative Proceedings With a view to administering in a consistent, impartial, and reasonable manner all measures of general application affecting matters covered by this Agreement, each Party shall ensure, in its administrative proceedings applying measures referred to in Article 8.1 to particular persons, goods or services of the other Party in specific cases, that: (a) wherever possible, persons of the other Party that are directly affected by a proceeding are provided with reasonable notice, in accordance with the Party’s procedures, when a proceeding is initiated, including a description of the nature of the proceeding, a statement of the legal authority under which the proceeding is initiated and a general description of any issues in controversy; (b) such persons are afforded a reasonable opportunity to present facts and arguments in support of their positions prior to any final administrative action, when time, the nature of the proceeding and the public interest permit; and (c) its procedures are in accordance with its law. Article 8.4: Review and Appeal 1. Each Party shall establish or maintain judicial, quasi-judicial, or administrative tribunals or procedures for the purpose of the prompt review and, where warranted, correction of final administrative actions regarding matters covered by this Agreement. Such tribunals shall be impartial and independent of the office or authority entrusted with administrative enforcement and shall not have any substantial interest in the outcome of the matter. 2. Each Party shall ensure that, in any such tribunals or procedures, the parties to the proceeding are provided with the right to: (a) a reasonable opportunity to support or defend their respective positions; and (b) a decision based on the evidence and submissions of record or, where required by the Party’s law, the record compiled by the administrative authority. 3. Each Party shall ensure, subject to appeal or further review as provided in its law, that such decision shall be implemented by, and shall govern the practice of, the office or authority with respect to the administrative action at issue. CHAPTER 9 INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS Article 9.1: Joint Commission The Parties hereby establish the Joint Commission, at the level of Ministers comprising representatives of both Parties. Article 9.2: Functions of the Joint Commission 1. The Joint Commission shall: (a) oversee the implementation and further elaboration of this Agreement; (b) consider any proposal to amend this Agreement or to make modifications to the commitments therein; (c) oversee the work of all committees and other bodies established under this Agreement; (d) consider ways to further enhance trade and investment between the Parties in accordance with the objective of this Agreement; (e) seek to resolve differences that may arise regarding the interpretation or application of this Agreement; and (f) consider any other matter that may affect the operation of this Agreement. 2. The Joint Commission may: (a) establish and delegate responsibilities to ad hoc and standing committees or other bodies; (b) adopt rules of procedure; and (c) take such other action in the exercise of its functions as the Parties may agree. Article 9.3: Rules of Procedure of the Joint Commission 1. The Joint Commission shall take decisions on any matter within its functions as set out in Article 9.2 by mutual agreement. 2. The Joint Commission shall convene in regular sessions once per year and at other times as the Parties may agree. Regular sessions of the Joint Commission shall be held alternately in the territory of each Party and chaired successively by each Party. Other sessions of the Joint Commission shall be held at such location as the Parties may agree and chaired by the Party hosting the meeting. 3. The Joint Commission shall be chaired by, the Minister of Commerce of China or its successor and the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea or its successor, or their respective designees. 4. Each Party shall be responsible for the composition of its own delegation to the Joint Commission. 5. The Party chairing a session of the Joint Commission shall provide necessary administrative support for such session, and shall record any decisions and discussions of the Joint Commission, copies of which will be provided to the other Party. 6. Each Party shall treat any confidential information exchanged in relation to a meeting of the Joint Commission or any body created under paragraph 2(a) of Article 9.2 on the same basis as the Party providing the information. 7. All decisions of the Joint Commission and all Committees, working groups, and other bodies established under this Agreement shall be taken by consensus of the Parties. CHAPTER 10 DISPUTE SETTLEMENT Article 10.1: Cooperation The Parties shall at all times endeavor to agree on the interpretation and application of this Agreement, and shall make every attempt through cooperation and consultations to arrive at a mutually satisfactory resolution of any matter that might affect its operation when a dispute occurs. Article 10.2: Scope Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement or as the Parties otherwise agree, this Chapter shall apply with respect to the settlement of all disputes between the Parties regarding the interpretation and application of this Agreement or wherever a Party considers that: (a) a measure of the other Party is inconsistent with its obligations under this Agreement; or (b) the other Party has otherwise failed to carry out its obligations under this Agreement. Article 10.3: Choice of Forum 1. Where a dispute arises under this Agreement and under the WTO Agreement or any other agreement to which both Parties are party, the complaining Party may select the forum in which to settle the dispute. 2. Once the complaining Party has requested the establishment of a dispute settlement panel under an agreement referred to in paragraph 1, the forum selected shall be used to the exclusion of other fora. Article 10.4: Consultations 1. The Parties shall make every attempt to arrive at a mutually satisfactory resolution of any dispute through consultations under this Article or other consultative provisions of this Agreement. 2. Either Party may request consultations with the other Party with respect to any matter described in Article 10.2 by delivering written notification to the other Party. The requesting Party shall set out the reasons for the request, including identification of the measure at issue and an indication of the legal basis for the complaint, in the written notification. If a request for consultations is made, the other Party shall reply in writing to the request within 10 days after the date of its receipt. 3. Consultations shall be held in good faith within 30 days after the date of receipt of the request with a view of reaching a mutually satisfactory solution and take place, unless the Parties otherwise agree, in the territory of the requested Party. 4. Each Party shall: (a) provide sufficient information in the consultations to enable a full examination of how the matter subject to consultations might affect the operation of this Agreement; and (b) treat any confidential information exchanged in the course of consultations on the same basis as the Party providing the information. 5. Consultations shall be confidential and without prejudice to the rights of the Parties in any further proceedings under this Chapter. CHAPTER 11 FINAL PROVISIONS Article 11.1: Entry into Force and Termination 1. The entry into force of this Agreement is subject to the completion of necessary domestic legal procedures by each Party. 2. This Agreement shall enter into force 60 days after the date the Parties exchange written notifications through diplomatic channels that such procedures have been completed or after such other period as the Parties may agree and confirm by written notifications. 3. Either Party may terminate this Agreement by written notification to the other Party through diplomatic channels. This Agreement shall expire 180 days after the date on which such notification is sent. Article 11.2: Accession Any country or customs territory may accede to this Agreement subject to such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the country or customs territory and the Parties and following approval in accordance with the applicable legal requirements and procedures of each Party and acceding country or customs territory. Requests are as follows: 1. The economic volume must be at least 24 trillion and the average income must be at least 50,000. 2. Or with one of the two being: (a) economic volume at least 48 trillion. (b) average income at least 70,000. Article 11.3: Authentic Text 1. This Agreement was first signed in Promised islands on March 19, 2032. It consists of three copies, each in Chinese, English, and Italian, and the three texts have the same effect. 2. This Agreement was finally signed in Promised islands on Auguest 27, 2032. It consists of twenty-three copies, each in Chinese, English, Italian, Romanian, German, French, Somewherian, Krølan, Anglicus, Lirozonian, Dacian, Xartoian, Tianmeni, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Filipino, Adrexian, Coplaisteiner, Hawaiian, Spanish, and Whalish, and the texts have the same effect.
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