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Dictionary of Frequently Used Ancient Chinese Characters ( 古汉语常用字字典) since 1979. The dictionary was the first authoritative ancient Chinese dictionary to use modern linguistical and lexicographical methodology following the establishment of the People's Republic of China. It has been reprinted more than 160 times and sold over 22 million copies. In 1995 the dictionary won first prize at the National Press and Publication Administration Chinese dictionary awards. The Commercial Press also designed the trade dress of the dictionary, the fourth edition of which was used continuou...

Italy has ratified the International Labour Organisation Violence and Harassment Convention, which will have a significant impact on employment law. Employers will have concrete new obligations with respect to a broader range of behaviours, involving a larger number of people and situations. This will affect the regulations that employers must implement internally and their responsibility for health and safety in the workplace (and work-related situations).

FERC's First Post-Order No. 872 Request for Relief from the PURPA Purchase Mandate Interestingly, it was two Generation and Transmission cooperatives (ETEC and NTEC) that submitted the first "QM filing" under Order No. 872 and 18 C.F.R. §§ 292.309, .310, seeking relief from having to buy from small power production QFs (SPP QFs) over 5 MW. They filed their joint application prior to the effective date of the Order No. 872, taking some risk that their application could be rejected on this ground. (They had never sought relief from the PURPA must-purchase obligation before, so FERC presumabl...

It is often easy to assume that only parties which live in the United Kingdom are required to pay UK value added tax (VAT). However, UK VAT is often paid by individuals, trustees and companies which are resident outside the United Kingdom but use the services of professionals which are based in the United Kingdom. The extent to which VAT is or is not chargeable has changed as a result of Brexit and the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020. This article considers the new post-Brexit VAT position. Post-Brexit position From a UK supplier's perspective, an EU customer is now treated i...

Introduction EU Regulation 2018/1139 enables airlines that operate in more than one EU member state under multiple air operator certificates (AOCs) to obtain a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AOC (for further details please see "New basic regulation will revise aviation landscape"). EASA – headquartered in Cologne, Germany – is responsible for safety oversight and certification for all aircraft with an EASA AOC. Thus, the EASA AOC enables airlines which have aircraft registered in different European states to report to a single competent authority in relation to safety oversight an...