The UK signed the Berne Convention in 1887 but did not implement large parts of it until 100 years later with the passage of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

A continental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and the UK ( Ireland and the UK have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area )

All the inhabitants of Diego Garcia were involuntarily relocated to other islands in the Chagos Archipelago or to Mauritius or Seychelles by 1971 to satisfy the requirements of a UK / US Exchange of Notes signed in 1966 to depopulate the island when the US constructed a base upon it.

In parallel, France and Germany signed a joint development agreement in 1984 and were joined by Italy and the UK in 1986.

The following year in 1992, the first short messaging service ( SMS or " text message ") message was sent and Vodafone UK and Telecom Finland signed the first international roaming agreement.

Lyster signed US patents in 1916 and 1921, securing the international rights to these developments for a UK based company, Minerals Separation, Limited.

Soviet sources have claimed that soon after the pact was signed, both the UK and US showed understanding that the buffer zone was necessary to keep Hitler from advancing for some time, accepting the ostensible strategic reasoning ; however, soon after World War II ended, those countries changed their view.

At the insistence of their superiors in the UK, EMI Australia signed The Saints.

Despite the fact that the group had not signed a contract with EMI, the single reached the UK Top 40 and began selling well.

** The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.

After the succession, the INMARSAT space segment and operational business were transferred to Inmarsat Ltd., a UK company, with the IMSO overseeing the public services obligations of the company pursuant to an agreement concluded between IMSO and Inmarsat Ltd. An agreement between the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) and the IMSO was signed in Montreal on 20 September 2000 and addresses the relationship between ICAO and IMSO.

After the newspaper The Sun published a story on 14 October 2011 citing that the Roses had signed for a series of gigs across the UK, rumours again began to circulate.

Numan signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 1980s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm ( 1988 ) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly despite two hit singles.

On 26 September 1985, the UK and Saudi Arabian governments signed the Al Yamamah contract, with BAe as prime contractor.

Later that year, Warner Music Australia bought out the ailing Festival-Mushroom Records for only $ 12 million and closed the label down but retaining the use of the Mushroom label for a couple of acts like Eskimo Joe and Gabriella Cilmi ( who subsequently got signed to Island Records in the UK, one of the first Australian acts to do so ).

Twenty Scottish Members of Parliament signed a House of Commons motion in March 2005 condemning him for comparing supposed Scottish dominance at Westminster to British rule in India: a " Scottish Raj " was running the UK, said Paxman.

However, in 1972 the UK signed up to be a member of the European Union, and with this accepted European law to be supreme in certain areas ( see the ex parte Factortame case ).

Sixpence signed to Credential Recordings and played a headline slot at the 2009 Greenbelt Festival in the UK.

In addition, a large number of consumers throughout Europe, including over one million in the UK, and various doctors and scientists, had signed petitions by 2005 against what are viewed by the petitioners as unjustified restrictions of consumer choice.

In the United Kingdom travel agencies have been asked to stop offering tourism packages to the Stampede, and in 2010, 92 members of the UK Parliament signed an Early Day Motion asking their Canadian counterparts to ban rodeo.

In late 1987, the band signed to One Little Indian in the UK, Elektra Records in the US.

The band encountered management problems after the chart-topping hit and subsequently signed to Decca Records in the UK ( London Records in the US ) as actual recording artists.

In addition to these artists, two other noted recording acts ( though not signed to the label ) were credited artists on Swan Song singles, both of which were UK hits in 1981: B.

After selling 49 % of the company to News Corporation in 1993, Garbage signed to the label via Marshall's UK operation, followed by Pop Will Eat Itself, Ash, The Paradise Motel and Peter André.

:* UK: Hong Kong, Chinese treaty ports, Irish treaty ports, Singapore

These laws are those for areas not covered by the Protocol 3 opt-out that the UK included for the Isle of Man in its accession treaty – the areas excluded being free movement of persons, services and capital, and taxation and social policy harmonisation.

It is now normal practice for the UK to consult the Jersey government and seek their consent before entering into treaty obligations affecting the island.

In relation to the Council of Europe, Jersey – as a territory the United Kingdom is responsible for in international law – has been bound by the European Convention on Human Rights since the UK acceded to the treaty in 1951.

In the United Kingdom, for example, a treaty is not effective until it has been incorporated at which time it becomes enforceable in the courts by any private citizen, where appropriate, even against the UK Government.

In 1951 Egypt repudiated the treaty, and in 1954 the UK agreed to remove its troops.

Primarily in reaction to the ambitions of other European countries, the United Kingdom and the Trucial Sheikhdoms established closer bonds in an 1892 treaty, similar to treaties entered into by the UK with other Persian Gulf principalities.

In 1826, therefore, Siam concluded its first commercial treaty with a western power, the Treaty of Amity and Commerce ( Siam – UK ) ( also called the Burney Treaty ).

The Japanese also agreed with the United Kingdom to extend the Anglo-Japanese treaty to cover all of Eastern Asia, and in return the UK also agreed to Japan's control over Korea.

The repeal of this Act would leave European Union law unenforceable in the UK, but the UK would still be bound by treaty obligations to the European Union.

He even entertained a peace treaty proposed by Botha and the other Boer leaders that would have maintained the sovereignty of the South African Republican and the Orange Free State while requiring them to sign a perpetual treaty of alliance with the UK and grant major concessions to the UK such as equal rights for English with Dutch in their countries, voting rights for Uitlanders, and a customs and railway union with the Cape Colony and Natal, although he knew the government in the UK would reject the offer.

Under the treaty, the United Kingdom ( UK ) recognised the French Republic ; George III had only two years previously dropped England's historical claim to the now-defunct French Kingdom.

News of the preliminary peace was greeted in the UK with illuminations and fireworks ; in Dublin a street was named for the treaty.

Turkey and Britain have an extradition treaty, however, Home Office officials have stated " Under UK extradition law a judge must order the discharge of extradition request if it is not an offence under UK law and in the country requesting extradition.

The treaty was ratified by the UK on 30 December 1814.

Today's independent Belize government holds the viewpoint that treaties signed by the UK are not binding on them, that the International Court of Justice's precedent is that the 1859 treaty is binding on Guatemala unless Guatemala can firmly prove the 1859 treaty was forced upon them by the UK, that international law says any breaches in the 1859 treaty by the UK would not excuse Guatemala's breaches and the UK never made " material breaches ," that Guatemala never inherited Spain's claim because Guatemala never occupied that part of Spain's New World colonies, and the right of a people to self-determination.

* Earth Architecture and Conservation in East Anglia-British organisation that focuses on the proper maintenance and conservation of earth buildings in a region of the UK that has a long history of building with mud.

Oxford, UK and Indianapolis, US, The Fridtjol Nansen Institute & The International African Institute in association with James Currey and Indiana University Press.

Terms used to describe the motor neuron diseases can be confusing ; in the UK " motor neuron disease " ( with " neuron " sometimes spelt " neurone ") refers to both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( the most common form of disease ) and to the broader spectrum of motor neuron diseases including progressive muscular atrophy, primary lateral sclerosis, and progressive bulbar palsy.

* G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright 1978, 2000 ( with general index ) An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers: 5th Edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford UK, ISBN 0-19-853171-0

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

Where British and American vocabulary differs, Australians sometimes favour an Australian usage, as with footpath ( for US sidewalk, UK pavement ) or capsicum ( for US bell pepper, UK sweet pepper ).

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

A factorial randomized trial of 579 UK patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain, reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that patients who received Alexander Technique lessons reported afterwards having less back pain and significant improvement in their quality of life.

) Finally, the past tense and past participle of dwell and kneel are more commonly dwelt and knelt in both standards, with dwelled and kneeled as common variants in the US but not in the UK.

This is mostly a matter of terminology, and US Asatru may be equated with UK Odinism for practical purposes, as is evident in the short-lived International Asatru-Odinic Alliance of folkish Asatru / Odinist groups.

Phillips claims it remained there until the 1180s, when Ralph de Sudeley, the leader of the Templars found the Maccabean treasure at Jebel al-Madhbah, returned home to his estate at Herdewyke in Warwickshire, UK, taking the treasure with him.

Friday's and McDonald's and the efforts of individual restaurateurs such as Bob Payton, credited with bringing American-style pizza to the UK.

* IVS – A proprietary version with Digital Rights Management developed by 3D Solar UK Ltd for use in music downloaded from their Tronme Music Store and interactive music and video player.

NTSC is currently only used with system M, even though there were experiments with NTSC-A ( 405 line ) and NTSC-I ( 625 line ) in the UK.