EU, a company that wants to introduce a genetically modified seed approaches a member state to act as rapporteur.
If two-thirds of the UN member states vote in favor of recognition, a state is accepted as a member state.
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Greece is also a member State of the EU (since 1981), therefore EU law covers a large part of internal law.
On 14 July 2011, the UN General Assembly voted by acclamation to admit the Republic of South Sudan as a Member State.
Russia is the world's largest economy that still not a member state.
Last year, ASEAN called on the generals to free Miss Suu Kyi the first time that the association had rebuked a member state.
It is hard to enforce policies limiting state-aid without a member state's backing, says Stephen Kinsella, a lawyer in Herbert Smith's Brussels office.
"I believe the reason is that they believed this is an administrative measure a member State has taken which does not endanger its democracy".
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Euro-zone government bonds had long been considered one of the world's safest investments: There was thought to be little risk a member state would default.
Our correspondent says he has never seen this much pressure being applied to a member state by the rest of the eurozone community in recent years.
It was a great satisfaction for me when my friend Elias Sanbar, Ambassador to UNESCO, succeeded in having Palestine recognized as a Member State of UNESCO.
It was a great satisfaction for me when my friend Elias Sambas, Ambassador to UNESCO, succeeded in having Palestine recognized as a Member State of UNESCO.
The so-called "Luxembourg Compromise" allows a member state to block a majority decision being taken if an issue is deemed to seriously affect "a very important national interest".
Candidatures must be presented by the government of a Member State of UNESCO or an international non-governmental organisation, maintaining formal consultative relations with UNESCO and active in the relevant fields covered by the prize.
When the Commission believes a member state has failed to account properly for EU funds it can impose a "correction" on that state - it is a demand to reimburse the Commission.
No less out of step with the times is the obligation the United States would have to assume as a member state to transfer militarily significant technology and information to potential adversaries.
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After all, if a security alliance with the United States means anything it certainly means that a member state is free from the sort of hegemonic muscle-flexing that the Russians are so keen on.
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However, the peers expressed "grave concern" that Cyprus was allowed to join the EU in 2004 despite its bilateral dispute with Turkey over northern Cyprus - which is now having "serious consequences" for Turkey's own progress towards becoming a member state.
It is interesting to note that UNESCO today recognized and admitted "Palestine" as a member state despite the governance of the annihilationist Islamic movement Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority which continues to incite violence against Jews in media and textbooks.
But BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris says the UK has also called for much tougher action against those who abuse the system, arguing that rules that allow recent arrivals who have never been employed or paid taxes to claim the same social security benefits as a member state's own citizens were an affront to common sense and should be reviewed urgently.
Last week, Palestine filed a controversial application with the United Nations (UN) Security Council to become a UN member state, a move that is strongly opposed by the United States and Israel.
The fact is that while acceptance of "Palestine" as a UN member state will be a blow, it will mark an escalation not a qualitative departure from the basic challenges we have been facing for years.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has formally submitted a request to join the United Nations as a full member state.
The United States announced the with-holding of their dues after the admission of Palestine as a UNESCO Member State on 31 October.
What is more, territory formerly constituting the front line of the Warsaw Pact has been peacefully incorporated into that of a NATO member state.
Its ultimate aim is independence, which it believes, will mean "direct representation and equality of status in Europe", with Scotland becoming a full member state.
Opening the debate, the parliament's negotiator on the regulation, German centre-right MEP Kurt Lechner said that 12 million EU citizens live in a different member state.
The appeal was launched after the United States announced the withholding of their dues after the admission of Palestine as a UNESCO Member State on 31 October.
But no ASEAN leader - not even Malaysia's blunt-spoken Mahathir Mohamad - has delivered such a withering blast at a fellow member state as Wahid directed at Singapore.
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