For example, Kosovo has recently promulgated a law on the rights and responsibilities of citizens requiring health care, with detailed articles explicitly regulating the issues of treatment refusal, and of personal or proxy decisions [ 6].
Some states have laws requiring a certain ratio of nurses to patients in particular health-care sectors, but most do not regulate the issue at all.
But that was one of very few attempts to regulate the issue internationally, which opponents argue is a big missing ingredient given that large-scale deployment of technologies in one country could have significant impacts in others.
The Palestinian president has stated clearly for some time that if the UN Security Council does not address this problem, the UN's latest non-member state will join the Rome Statute which regulates the issue of the criminal court.
In late October, the health minister, Mam Bunheng, took the first step towards regulating the sector by issuing a prakas, or proclamation, that banned commercial surrogacy and tightened restrictions on IVF and sperm donations.
The Guangdong provincial ministry of land and resources, responsible for regulating the industry here, issued a statement on Oct. 19 to announce that it had closed a group of mines in this general area and would not allow them to reopen.
As Speakers' Corner was intended to increase avenues available for the exercise of free speech, the pieces of subsidiary legislation regulating the venue were issued to provide that public speaking and demonstrations there are not subject to the PEMA and POA if the conditions specified in the subsidiary legislation are complied with.
The two men had flown into Galkayo to meet Somali officials on the issue of regulating the money transfer services that replace a formal banking system in Somalia, and were looking at the financial flow of money related to Somalia's pirate attacks, according to reports.
Although I understand from the presidency that the inquiry is still underway, I have a very straightforward question: are the Council, and hence all the Member States, behind the idea of regulating this issue by means of a European instrument?
