Traditional comity avoidance of conflicts

Positive comity allocation of competence among competition authorities

We welcome post apartheid South Africa to the comity of nations.

In the law of the United States, comity may refer to the Privileges and Immunities Clause (sometimes called the Comity Clause ) in Article Four of the United States Constitution.

Pakistan will respond positively to his proposals to bring South Africa back into the comity of nations.

Today South Africa has rid itself of apartheid and returned in dignity to the comity of nations.

In Australia's view, such laws and measures are not justified by the principles of international law and comity.

Many also reported that reciprocity or comity was a basis on which mutual legal assistance could be granted.

Instead, an analysis is undertaken in terms of obligations relating to consultations, the exchange of non confidential and confidential information and positive comity.

Our Organization must be the ultimate defender of the rule of international law, to which all States in the comity of nations must adhere.

My delegation strongly urges the Council to enter into a more proactive engagement with Somalia so as to bring it back into the comity of nations.

Its admission to the comity of nations, which we are celebrating today with the legitimate sense of having fulfilled a duty, is the most striking outcome.

Kupchan never mentions a common currency as a condition of comity among nations in fact, economic integration tends to follow, rather than precede, achievement of political unity.

The 1998 recommendation encourages cooperation and comity specifically in respect of enforcement against hard core cartels and provides for transparency and periodic reviews relating to exempted cartels.

We believe there is a moral obligation on the part of the comity of nations to help those millions whose lives are directly affected by this problem.

A version of positive comity (in terms of competition advocacy rather than enforcement) has operated with some success on an informal level between the United States and other countries.

A Regulation on Cooperation of the States in Suppression of Monopolistic Activity and Unfair Competition establishes cooperation mechanisms in crossborder cases, on the basis of the principle of positive comity.

This was another urgent trip by Ban to a war torn capital, as part of his regular duties as the UN s chief representative, seeking to uphold peace and restore global comity.

Today, those aspirations are more valid than ever as the comity of nations engages in the quest for freedom from want, freedom from fear and the freedom to live in dignity.

Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Canada on the Application of Positive Comity Principles to the Enforcement of their Competition Laws, Washington, 5 October 2004.

It goes without saying that while we are engaged in this national exercise we shall also honour all our international obligations, in addition to playing an active role in the comity of nations.

The court commented that its interpretation of the FTAIA accorded with principles of prescriptive comity other nations were in the best position to decide how to protect their citizens from anticompetitive conduct by foreign corporations.

The Committee looked forward to the emergence of a new and democratic South Africa which would join and strengthen the African family of nations and play its rightful role in the broader comity of nations.

Many cooperation agreements in this area provide that the parties will consider coordination of enforcement with regard to related matters this is sometimes supplemented by an obligation of traditional comity, as in the Brazil United States agreement.

Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Commission of the European Communities on the Application of Positive Comity Principles in the Enforcement of Their Competition Laws (Brussels and Washington, D.C, 4 June 1998).

But how will it be when an affliction visits them because of what their hands have sent ahead ? Then they will come to you , swearing by Allah , We desired nothing but to do good and to bring about comity .

A similar agreement has recently been signed between Canada and the United States. In practice, positive comity would appear to come into play mainly when the requesting party is seeking to protect its export trade, reducing recourse to extraterritorial action in such cases.

A degree of positive comity is provided for under the 1960 Decision the party to whom a request for consultations is addressed shall, if it agrees that such harmful effects are present, take such measures as it deems appropriate to eliminate these effects.

Enforcement cooperation between the European Union and the countries concerned might not only have led to traditional comity coming into play, but might also have facilitated data gathering by the Commission (it took five years for the Commission to take a decision in the Shipowners case).

The EU South Africa agreement appears to apply a combined trade and competition test, requiring RBPs to be controlled insofar as they affect trade between the parties, but referring for this purpose to practices affecting competition within the parties' respective territories which appears to amount to positive comity.

While it would not be necessary for the requesting country's competition laws to be infringed for a request to be made, the requested country's competition laws would need to be infringed for action to be considered thus, positive comity would not enable action to be taken against export cartels, for instance.

Positive comity procedures have, to date, only been formally activated once, but it has normally been possible to take into account concerns expressed in an informal manner, with one party simply deferring its investigations while awaiting the outcome of investigations in the other jurisdiction, being kept informed of progress and being provided with the opportunity to comment on the proposed remedy.