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EMC² News
Welcome to the news-section of the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO law (EMC2). Please keep a close eye on this section, the news which is posted here might be very helpful for the participants of the Competition.
Friday 25 May 2008
Conclusion of the Final Oral Round
Sixteen teams from all over the world came to Geneva to demonstrate their knowledge of WTO law and to bring their mooting skills to the test. The IOC wishes to congratulate all teams with their achievements and likes to thank everyone involved for bringing sixth edition of this competition to a successful end.
In the section ‘Final Oral Round’ you can find the results of the Final Oral Round of the EMC2.
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Tuesday 29 April 2008
Start of the Final Oral Round in Geneva
Today is the first day of the Final Oral Round in Geneva. Please find a schedule of the whole week in the ‘Final Oral Round’ section of this website.
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Tuesday 15 April 2008
Venues in during the Final Oral Round in Geneva
We have published the venues of the Final Oral Round in Geneva. Please visit the ‘Final Oral Round’ section of this website. Later this week we will inform every team personally in which hotel they were allocated. More information on the program will follow.
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Monday 14 April 2008
UPDATED! Tips for the Oral Round
The document, referred to in the news-post of Saturday 12 April 2008 has been updated. Please find the updated document by clicking on this link.
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Saturday 12 April 2008
Tips for the Final Oral Round
The 2008 EMC² Case is a highly complex WTO Telecommunications problem that contains a number of legal, policy and technological issues. The Panellists in the six Regional Rounds, which were held in early March 2008, have provided observation comments to the Academic Supervisors. Consequently, the EMC² Academic Supervisors have recommended to the IOC that the following document should be made available to all participants progressing to the Final Oral Round.
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Tuesday 25 March 2008
Agenda of the Final Oral Round 2008
Today the IOC published the agenda for the Final Oral Round in Geneva. Please visit the 'Final Oral Round' section of this website to download the agenda.
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Monday 24 March 2008
Teams progressing to the Final Oral Round
It has been a week since the last Regional Round of the EMC2 took place. Now all the teams have pleaded and all the scores are counted, the IOC is ready to officially announce which teams are progressing to the Final Oral Round in Geneva.
The sixteen teams with the following team numbers are progressing to the Final Oral Round:
001, 002, 006, 009, 010, 012, 016, 018, 023, 026, 032, 036, 040, 042, 047, 062
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Thursday 20 March 2008
Team Confirmation Form for the Final Oral Round
Each team invited to attend the FOR must complete a Team Confirmation Form for administration purposes. As per the Timeline (Appendix C) the Team Confirmation Form must be submitted to the IOC (and relevant RRO, if applicable), by email or fax by Monday, 31ST March 2008!
The Team Confirmation Form can be downloaded by clicking this link.
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Tuesday 26 February 2008
Allocation list for the Final Oral Round in Geneva
Due to cancellations of several teams, the IOC decided to change the FOR allocation list, detailing the number of teams permitted to progress to the Final Oral Round (FOR) from an individual Regional Round and the International Written Round. This new list will replace the list published on Tuesday 8 January 2008.
ELSA Regional Round of Hungary: 4 teams
ELSA Regional Round of Romania: 4 teams
Asia non-ELSA Regional Round: 2 teams
South East Asia & Pacific non-ELSA Regional Round: 1 team
Latin American non-ELSA Regional Round: 2 teams
North American non-ELSA Regional Round: 2 teams
International Written Round: 1 team
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Tuesday 26 February 2008
WTO debates
2008 EMC2 Competitors for your general information, please note that the WTO has just posted on its home website a video link to the recent WTO Forum: what has been the impact of telecoms liberalization? Daniel Annerose, chief executive of Manobi, an African mobile data services company, and José Alfredo Rizek, executive director of Indotel, the Dominican Republic's telecoms regulator, take part in our debate celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Basic Telecommunications services deal. They discuss what has been the impact on governments, consumers and businesses, and what have been the implications for development.
Watch the video discussion and add your comments online:
http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/debates_e/debate7_e.htm
Other video debates:
http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/debates_e/debates_e.htm
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Tuesday 29 January 2008
Additional Official Interpretations of the Rules of EMC2
The IOC hereby publishes an Official Interpretation of article 5.7.2 of the Rules of EMC2. Please click here to view the document.
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Thursday 24 January 2008
Change in the Rules for EMC2
We wish to advice the participants that, after reviewing the Rules, we decided to make a change in article 5.5.3, paragraph 3. The updated paragraph will read as follows:
If two (2) Teams from the same Regional Round advance to the Semi Finals of the Final Oral Round, those two (2) Teams shall be paired against one another in such Elimination Round. The same procedure shall apply to two (2) Teams from the same country participating in a Regional Round.
The complete Rules can be found in the section ‘Rules and Clarifications’.
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Thursday 24 January 2008
Change of dates of the Final Oral Round in Geneva
ELSA's International Organising Committee wishes to announce that due to unforseen circumstances the EMC2 Final Oral Round (FOR) dates have been changed. The FOR will now be held in Geneva from Tuesday, 29th April until Sunday 4th May. The change in dates will ensure that WTO law experts will be able to judge the competition as in previous years of the competition.
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Tuesday 22 January 2008
Updated Tips-4-Teams
We have updated the Tips-4-Teams - The Oral pleadings. This document is now available in the section ‘Tips and hints’ of this website.
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Wednesday 9 January 2008
Deadline for dispatch of the Written Submissions (updated, original publication: Tuesday 8 January 2008)
According to the Timeline for the ELSA Moot Court Competition 2007 – 2008, the deadline for the dispatch of Registered Teams’ hard- and electronic copies of their Written Submissions is 14 January 2008. Registered Teams shall forward these documents submitted via post or courier AND e-mail to both the IOC and the individual Regional Round Organizer (if applicable). The deadline for dispatch shall be 1700 hours local time (for each individual jurisdiction and for both the hard- and electronic copies of the Written Submissions).
This means that all copies have to be SEND before the deadline. Are you not sure if the copies will reach the IOC or RRO in time, please save a proof of sending the documents.
…update Wednesday 9 January 2008…
Teams which participate in the ELSA Regional Rounds (in Hungary and Romania) or the International Written Round have to send their Written Submissions via post or courier AND e-mail ONLY to the IOC.
Teams participating in a non-ELSA Regional Round have to send their Written Submissions via post or courier AND e-mail to both the IOC and the Regional Round Organizer.
Address of the IOC:
IOC
239 Boulevard General Jacques
B-1050, Brussels
Belgium
E-mail: emc2@elsamootcourt.org
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Tuesday 8 January 2008
Allocation list for the Final Oral Round in Geneva
According to the Rules of EMC2 2007 – 2008 we hereby publish the FOR allocation list, detailing the number of teams permitted to progress to the Final Oral Round from an individual Regional Round and the International Written Round. The number of teams allocated to attend the Final Oral Round may change due to cancellations or inability to attend.
ELSA Regional Round of Hungary: 4 teams
ELSA Regional Round of Romania: 4 teams
Asia non-ELSA Regional Round: 2 teams
South East Asia & Pacific non-ELSA Regional Round: 1 team
Latin American non-ELSA Regional Round: 3 teams
North American non-ELSA Regional Round: 2 teams
International Written Round: 2 teams
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Tuesday 18 December 2007
Allocation of the ELSA Regional Rounds
According to the Official Rules of the EMC2, we hereby announce the following allocation of teams to the respective ELSA Regional Rounds.
Here follows a list of teamnumbers, per Regional Round. This list includes teams that first have to participate in a National Round. Only a certain number of teams will actually progress from a National Round to the Regional Round.
(this is the same list as published two days ago, but per teamnumber instead of country)
Teams with the following numbers will participate in the Regional Round of Hungary:
004, 006, 008, 019, 026, 027, 039, 044, 046, 047, 052, 061, 062, 063
Teams with the following numbers will participate in the Regional Round of Romania:
001, 007, 009, 016, 017, 021, 022, 023, 024, 025, 029, 030, 031, 034, 037, 053, 057, 058, 059, 060
Details regarding both Regional Rounds will be distributed by e-mail to the nominated contact person.
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Monday 10 December 2007
Rectification Westlaw-information
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