In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

By 2008 there were at least six institutions monitoring lake water health: 1 ) In 2002 the Conservation Law Foundation appointed a " lakekeeper " who criticizes the state's pollution controls, 2 ) Friends of Missisquoi Bay was formed in 2003, 3 ) the Lake Champlain Committee, 4 ) Vermont Water Resources Board

Some council-member states proposed an additional protocol to the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, addressing materials and " acts of racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer networks "; it was negotiated from late 2001 to early 2002, and, on 7 November 2002, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted the protocol's final text titled Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cyber-crime, Concerning the Criminalisation of Acts of a Racist and Xenophobic Nature Committed through Computer Systems, (" Protocol ").

Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly ( Conservative ), 2002

Starting 2001 sessions are held on a biennial basis interchanging with the sessions of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention ( CRIC ), whose first session was held in 2002.

In passing the 2002 Sarbanes – Oxley Act, the Senate Judiciary Committee found that whistleblower protections were dependent on the " patchwork and vagaries " of varying state statutes.

The 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Paralympic Games were both organized by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee ( SLOC ).

He retained his seat on the CPC Politburo Standing Committee until 2002.

The 2002 report of the Committee expressed similar concerns, including the welfare of children in custody, unequal treatment of asylum seekers, and the negative impact of poverty on children's rights.

The 2002 report's criticism of the legal defence of ' reasonable chastisement ' of children by parents, which the Committee described as ' a serious violation of the dignity of the child ', was rejected by the UK Government.

Manzanar Committee Chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey welcoming crowd at 33rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 27, 2002

The 2002 submission of the DAML + OIL language to the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) captures the work done by DAML contractors and the EU / U. S. ad hoc Joint Committee on Markup Languages.

In 2002, female paraurethral glands, or Skene's glands, were officially renamed the female prostate by the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology.

In 2002 the Skene's gland was officially renamed to female prostate by the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 30 April 2002 issued a recommendation to the member states, on the protection of women against violence.

Senator Sarbanes's bill passed the Senate Banking Committee on June 18, 2002, by a vote of 17 to 4.

The Committee approved the final conference bill on July 24, 2002, and gave it the name " the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.

The reason for the timing disparity was to address the House Committee on Small Business concern that the cost of complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 was still unknown and could therefore be disproportionately high for smaller publicly held companies.

The Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration was created as part of the Clear Skies Initiative in February 2002 by George W. Bush, as a Cabinet-level effort to coordinate climate change science and technology research.

* An Inquiry into the ImClone Cancer-Drug Story., " U. S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ", June 13, 2002

During the season 2006 2. 5 million nights have been passed in the department compared to 2. 7 million in 2002 ( source: Committee for Tourism in the Department of Ain, 2006 ).

In late 2002, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro adopted an interim agreement to settle the disputed Prevlaka peninsula at the entrance of the Bay of Kotor in Croatia's favour, allowing the withdrawal of the UN monitoring mission.

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

In April 2002, the parties of the UN CBD adopted the recommendations of the Gran Canaria Declaration Calling for a Global Plant Conservation Strategy, and adopted a 16 point plan aiming to slow the rate of plant extinctions around the world by 2010.

The final approved ISO standard ( adopted as an ANSI standard by INCITS ) was approved and made available in 2002.

Christmas according to the Coptic calendar was adopted as an official national holiday in Egypt since 2002.

An exception to the party policy was made in the 2002 campaign, in which it adopted a position of " equidistance " to the CDU and SPD.

The name Gibtelecom begun to be used in July 2002, and as of 1 October 2003 this name was formally adopted by the company ( which up until then was still Gibraltar Nynex Communications ).

In 2002, the government adopted the Prevention of Corruption Act, which led to the setting up of an Independent Commission Against Corruption ( ICAC ) a few months later.

" Still, the House of Lords has remained reluctant to overrule itself in some cases ; in R v Kansal ( 2002 ), the majority of House members adopted the opinion that R v Lambert had been wrongly decided and agreed to depart from their earlier decision.

After the 2002 debacle, the PDS adopted a new program and re-installed a respected moderate, long-time Gysi ally Lothar Bisky, as chair.

The new constitution ( adopted by referendum in 2002 ), returns to the earlier model with a seven-year presidential term and a bicameral national parliament.

In 2002, the CJLS returned to the issue of justifying its actions regarding women's status, and adopted a single authoritative approach, the Fine responsum, as the definitive Conservative halakha on role-of-women issues.

In 2002 the IHEU General Assembly unanimously adopted the Amsterdam Declaration, which represents the official defining statement of World Humanism for Humanists.

In 2002, the IHEU General Assembly unanimously adopted the Amsterdam Declaration 2002 which represents the official defining statement of World Humanism.

In 2002, a resolution sponsored by the European Union was adopted by the Commission for Human Rights, which stated that there had been no improvement in the human rights crisis in Iraq.

Taking place from October 23 to November 1, 2002, in New Delhi COP 8 adopted the Delhi Ministerial Declaration that, amongst others, called for efforts by developed countries to transfer technology and minimize the impact of climate change on developing countries.

* In late 2002, Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia adopted an interim agreement to settle the disputed Prevlaka Peninsula, allowing the withdrawal of the UN monitoring mission ( UNMOP ), but discussions could be complicated by the inability of Serbia and Montenegro to come to an agreement on the economic aspects of the new federal union.

The Green Party of Canada, in 2002 adopted the Six Principles of the Global Greens as its official doctrine.

The round-headed rampion, also known as the ' Pride of Sussex ', was adopted as Sussex's county flower in 2002.

in 2002, a one foreigner per stable policy was officially adopted.