Indeed, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Article 6 requires these features in the legal systems of its signatory states.

The vehicle types are the same ( a sticker " TIG " stands for the first second ) but the Convention requires that transportation TIG have fixed schedules ( vehicles go, they are filled or not ) on defined paths ( no collection or deposit on demand, no shortcuts ).

For example, a Dinosaur is a member who was active before the first Worldcon ( World Science Fiction Convention ) held on July 4, 1939, while Associate Membership requires provable activity in fandom for more than three decades.

As is stated in Article 2 of the Convention, this requires that GHG concentrations are stabilized in the atmosphere at a level where ecosystems can adapt naturally to climate change, food production is not threatened, and economic development can proceed in a sustainable fashion.

The organization promotes and verifies the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention which prohibits of the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction.

The Convention requires that judges are of high moral character and to have qualifications suitable for high judicial office, or be a jurisconsult of recognised competence.

The European Convention on Human Rights requires that all hearings, unless there are exceptional circumstances, are heard in public.

In many jurisdictions, properly implementing the Convention requires an overhaul of child custody and guardianship laws, or, at the very least, a creative approach within the existing laws.

The Convention also acknowledges that children have the right to express their opinions and to have those opinions heard and acted upon when appropriate, to be protected from abuse or exploitation, and to have their privacy protected, and it requires that their lives not be subject to excessive interference.

Article 26 of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs requires nations that allow the cultivation of coca to designate an agency to regulate said cultivation and take physical possession of the crops as soon as possible after harvest, and to destroy all coca which grows wild or is illegally cultivated.

The Geneva Convention requires that POWs who are on trial for war crimes be subject to the same procedures as would be the holding army's own soldiers.

International law, for example Geneva Conventions defines International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, requires that " States shall take, in accordance with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, all necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including the occurrence of natural disaster.

( The Convention allows the use of some chemical agents like tear gas for " law enforcement including domestic riot control ", but requires that " riot control agents " have effects that " disappear within a short time following termination of exposure.

7 bis of the Paris Convention also requires signatories " to accept for filing and to protect collective marks belonging to associations the existence of which is not contrary to the law of the country of origin, even if such organizations do not possess an industrial or commercial establishment.

The adjudicatory function requires the Court to rule on cases brought before it in which a state party to the Convention, and thus has accepted its jurisdiction, is accused of a human rights violation.

55 countries are parties to the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages, which requires them to specify a minimum marriage age by statute law, thus overriding customary, religious and tribal laws.

Convention requires the monarch to accept the advice of his or her Prime Minister, but there was considerable public outcry against this plan.

Article 29 of the Convention requires that all Contracting States protect " the right of persons with disabilities to vote by secret ballot in elections and public referendums ".

The Convention also amended the jurisdictional provisions of Warsaw and now allows the victim or their families to sue foreign carriers where they maintain their principal residence, and requires all air carriers to carry liability insurance.

Key directives include the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 1992 ( requiring most towns and cities to treat their wastewater to specified standards ), and the Water Framework Directive 2000, which requires water resource plans based on river basins, including public participation based on Aarhus Convention principles.

Indeed, the European Court of Human Rights now requires the reviewing court to subject the original decision to " anxious scrutiny " whether an administrative measure infringes a Convention right.

It also requires UK judges to take account of decisions of the Strasbourg court, and to interpret legislation, as far as possible, in a way which is compatible with the Convention.

Section 3 is a particularly wide provision that requires courts to interpret both primary and subordinate legislation so that their provisions are compatible with the articles of the European Convention of Human Rights which are also part of the Human Rights Act.

The Act envisages that this will ordinarily be a difficult standard to meet though since it requires the Courts to read such legislation ( and for that matter subordinate legislation ) " So far as it is possible to do so ... in a way which is compatible with the Convention rights.

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known simply as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries ( LDCs ).

The other way that a waste may fall under the scope of the Convention is if it is defined as or considered to be a hazardous waste under the laws of either the exporting country, the importing country, or any of the countries of transit.

The United States is a notable non-Party to the Convention and has a number of such agreements for allowing the shipping of hazardous wastes to Basel Party countries.

This allows, among other things, the OECD countries to continue trading in wastes with countries like the United States that have not ratified the Basel Convention.

Lobbying at the 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and key European countries such as Denmark, led to a decision to adopt the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention.

Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not " register " or " apply for " a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention.

The United States and most Latin American countries instead entered into the Buenos Aires Convention in 1910, which required a copyright notice ( such as all rights reserved ) on the work, and permitted signatory nations to limit the duration of copyrights to shorter and renewable terms.

In all countries where the Berne Convention standards apply, copyright is automatic, and need not be obtained through official registration with any government office.

Importantly, the Convention is legally binding ; countries that join it (' Parties ') are obliged to implement its provisions.

Participation is voluntary, and countries that have agreed to be bound by the Convention are known as Parties.

The text of the Convention was finalized at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington, D. C., United States, on 3 March 1973.

All members of the Council of Europe ( which includes nearly all European countries, and every member of the European Union ) have signed the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects against double jeopardy.

Under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries speaking Danish have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable for any interpretation or translation costs.

The Convention has been ratified by more than 170 countries and is endorsed by most environmental groups.

Some countries have made reservations to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, but they are minor.

In general, these rules follow the Vienna Convention and apply in other countries as well.

The Stockholm Convention, establishing the EFTA, was signed on 4 January 1960 in the Swedish capital by seven countries ( known as the " outer seven ").

In those Berne Convention countries who have implemented only the minimum copyright period, copyright expires 50 years after the author's death.

189 countries which are signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity ( Rio Accord ) have committed to preparing a Biodiversity Action Plan, a first step at identifying specific endangered species and habitats, country by country.

Among the first were the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, initiated in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and the future International Telegraph Union, which was founded by the signing of the International Telegraph Convention by 20 countries in May 1865.