The 2002 WIPO Copyright Treaty enacted greater restrictions on the use of technology to copy works in the nations that ratified it.

* An agreement concerning the use of the Port of Djibouti and the transit of cargo, was signed in Djibouti between the two countries on 13 April 2002, and ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 4 June of the same year.

Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling, Air Pollution – Persistent Organic Pollutants ( signed 2001, ratified 2002 ), Climate Change – Kyoto Protocol ( signed May 1998, ratified together with 14 other EU countries May 31, 2002 ).

Article 3 of the Basic Law of the Palestinian Authority, which was ratified in 2002 by the Palestinian National Authority and serves as an interim constitution, states that " Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.

In 2002, Switzerland was officially ratified as a member of the United Nations — the only country joining after agreement by a popular vote.

This protocol entered into force on 12 July 2002 ; currently, 147 states are party to the protocol and another 22 states have signed but not ratified it.

It entered into force on 18 January 2002 ; currently, 158 states are party to the protocol and another 16 states have signed but not ratified it.

* START II, signed 1993, ratified 1996 ( United States ) and 2000 ( Russia ), terminated following Russian withdrawal 2002

Higher bandwidth 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards have since become available as the IEEE ratified a fiber-based standard in 2002, and a twisted pair standard in 2006.

On 11 April 2002, ten countries ratified the statute at the same time at a special ceremony held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, bringing the total number of signatories to sixty, which was the minimum number required to bring the statute into force, as defined in Article 126.

" The Rome Statute defines " intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population " to be illegal, but only came into effect on July 1, 2002 and has not been ratified by every country.

The appointment of a papal diplomatic representative to the Principality was subsequent to the revision of Monaco's treaty with France which was revised in 2002 and ratified in 2005.

The Statute came into force on 1 July 2002 after the 60th state had ratified it.

In Britain, trial by combat was rejected in 2002 by a magistrate, which rejected the accused's claim that it would still be legal under international human rights legislation ; the United States has ratified the same treaties.

Former US President and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter met with Mashal on 21 April 2008 and reached an agreement that Hamas would respect the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip areas seized by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, provided that such a state is ratified by the Palestinian people in a referendum.

In April, 2002, after Harper defeated Day in the race to be the Alliance leader, Grey and the other DRC MPs rejoined the Alliance caucus, and in December 2003, the Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives ratified an agreement to merge into the Conservative Party of Canada.

After a month-long strike, bus drivers at Laidlaw Education Services in Los Angeles ratified a new contract in April 2002.

Mechanics at Continental Airlines ratified a four-year contract resulting in wage and benefit increases in December 2002.

The Welsh Assembly ratified the " super schools " plan in 2002, but the new schools were controversial.

She said that the liberalization of the French public utilities had been ratified by the former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin during the Barcelona summit on 15 and 16 March 2002.

Under Papua's Special Autonomy Law ratified in 2002, the flag may be raised in Papua so long as the flag of Indonesia is also raised and it is higher than the Morning Star flag.

* Online version of Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell ( Swedenborg Foundation 1949, new translation 2002 )

In 2002, a new survey was carried out on board the Ifremer RV Le Suroit for BlaSON project ( Lericolais, et al., 2003 ) completed the multibeam mapping of this underwater channel fan-delta.

The Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 has introduced new standards of accountability on boards of U. S. companies or companies listed on U. S. stock exchanges.

In the 2002 national election, a new party founded by former PLN Congressman and government Minister Ottón Solís captured 26 % of the vote, forcing a runoff election for the first time in the country's history.

Since 2002, Charles has been a DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music, presenting The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show, where he plays a diverse range of funk and soul music, from classic tracks to the latest releases, and provides publicity for new bands.

The new federal Constitution came into effect in 2002 ; it included elements of consociationalism, including a presidency that rotates every four years among the islands and extensive autonomy for each island.

Young Indians teams finished far out of contention in 2002 and under new manager Eric Wedge.

In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo ; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a Transition Government, the make-up of which would allow representation for all negotiating parties.

Bowie and Visconti continued their collaboration, producing a new album of completely original songs instead: the result of the sessions was the 2002 album Heathen.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Starting in 2002, following the entry into force of the Bologna Accords, the university switched to the bachelor / master structure ( students graduating in 2002 were given both an old-style engineering title and a new master's title ).

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

Since 2002, the new Afghan government has engaged in cordial relations with both Iran and the United States, even as relations between Iran and the United States have grown strained due to American objections to Iran's nuclear program.

At the 1995 Detroit Auto Show, the Ford GT90 concept was shown and at the 2002 show, a new GT40 Concept was unveiled by Ford.

Safir GT40 Spares licensed the use of the GT40 trademark to Ford for the initial 2002 show car, but when Ford decided to make the production vehicle, negotiations between the two failed, and as a result the new Ford GT does not wear the badge GT40.

In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the free and open source gnutella client Gnucleus.

Despite ceasing to record new material between 2002 and ( most of ) 2005, Brooks continued to chart with previously recorded material, including a top 30 placing for " Why Ain't I Running " in 2003.

Recent years have once again brought a new construction boom to the Fairfax campus, which is currently undergoing a massive, $ 900 million construction campaign ( between 2002 – 2012 ) based on the 2002 University Master Plan.

In 2002 the Botanic Gardens gained a new multistorey complex which included a new cafe and a large lecture theatre.