Environmental Framework Law of Chile

Article 29

The citizens’ organizations and natural persons referred to in the preceding article may make comments to the Environmental Impact Study with the competent authority, for which they have a period of sixty days from the publication of the extract respectively.

The Commission shall weigh in the grounds of its resolution of those observations, notifying who has entered them. Citizens’ organizations and individuals whose comments have not been properly weighted in the fundamentals of the respective

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Environmental Impact Assessment in Chile

Article 15

State agencies. However, if the head of any project or activity arises, together with the Environmental Impact Study, an insurance policy covering the risk of environmental damage, the term referred to in the first paragraph may obtain a temporary authorization to start the project or activity under his own responsibility, without prejudice to the authority ultimately resolved in accordance with this law. The regulation will determine the beneficiary, requirements, forms, conditions, and

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Individual and Collective Labor Relations

Differences Between Individual and Collective Labor Relations

As to the Subject

In an individual relationship, an individual worker is considered against the employer.

In a collective relationship, the worker is represented by a group of workers, characterized by a plurality of workers.

In Terms of Content

The individual relationship is contractual, with reciprocal obligations (the worker provides the service and the employer pays remuneration).

The collective relationship is not contractual but based

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Civil Liability and Property Law in the Brazilian Civil Code

BOOK III – Law of Things

TITLE I – Ownership

CHAPTER I – Tenure and its Classification

Article 1196

It is considered that any owner who has in fact exercise, full or not, any of the powers attaching to the property.

Article 1197

The direct ownership of a person who has everything in its power temporarily because of personal, real or not invalidate the hint of who that was regarded, and may direct the owner to defend his possession against indirect.

Article 1198

It is considered holder who, finding themselves

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Constitutional Justice: Origin, Review, and Outlook

Constitutional Justice

Concept

To provide a valid concept of constitutional justice, two elements must be addressed:

  1. Formal Element: An activity is jurisdictional because it is conducted by an independent body that acts under the law based on legal reasoning and the principle of contradiction.
  2. Material Element: Constitutional justice involves exercising several powers related to specific processes that characterize the institution. These include litigation used to control the constitutionality of laws,
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Low Voltage Electrical Installations: Pre-Commissioning Verifications and Inspections

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1. OBJECT

This Instruction implements the provisions of Articles 18 and 20 of the Low Voltage Electrotechnical Regulations concerning verifications prior to commissioning and inspection of electrical installations within its scope.

2. ACTORS/AGENTS

2.1. Companies responsible for installation and operation must conduct pre-commissioning verifications of the facilities.

2.2. In accordance with Article 20 of the Regulation, and without prejudice to the powers held by the Public Administration staff

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