Translation of "Que les parties n'ont cessé d'invoquer " (French → English) :

F. whereas on the evening of 7 November two opposition TV channels, Imedi and Caucasia, were taken off the air; whereas the buildings of Imedi television and radio were stormed by armed members of security agencies wearing masks before the announcement of the state of emergency and without prior notification, with up to 90% of the station’s broadcasting equipment destroyed; whereas a Tbilisi court suspended the broadcasting license of Imedi and froze its assets on the grounds that its coverage of the events of 7 November amounted to incitement to overthrow the government; whereas the court notification was handed over to Imedi’s director only one week later; wh ...[+++]ereas the Georgian National Communication Commission (GNCC) has suspended Imedi’s TV’s broadcasting licence for three months, citing the station’s violation of the law on broadcasting,

G. whereas on the evening of 7 November two opposition TV channels, Imedi and Caucasia, were taken off the air; whereas the buildings of Imedi television and radio were stormed by armed members of security agencies wearing masks before the announcement of the state of emergency and without prior notification, with up to 90% of the station’s broadcasting equipment destroyed; whereas a Tbilisi court suspended Imedi’s broadcasting license and froze its assets on the grounds that its coverage of the events of 7 November amounted to incitement to overthrow the government; whereas the court notification was handed over to Imedi’s director only one week later; wh ...[+++]ereas the Georgian National Communication Commission (GNCC) has suspended Imedi’s TV broadcasting licence for three months, citing the station’s violation of the law on broadcasting,

1 By application lodged at the Registry of the Court of First Instance on 26 May 2004, the applicant, relying on Article 232 EC, brought the present action against the Commission for failure to act, seeking a declaration that the Commission is required to adopt, with respect to the Member States, legislation authorising and facilitating cross-border transfers of seats of companies with share capital and of partnerships without the legal orders of the Member States being able to make such transfers more difficult or impossible and, in particular, to convert into a directi ...[+++]ve the ‘proposal for a Fourteenth Company Law Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on cross-border transfers of seats of companies with a change of the applicable law’.

The Council had declined to grant access to certain sections of the documents by invoking Article 4(3) of Regulation No 1049/2001 which allows access to be refused if disclosure of the document would seriously undermine the institution’s decision-making process.

Regarding procedural rules, the burden of proof lies with national authorities, which must "demonstrate on an individual basis" that a person has ceased to be or has never been a refugee or a person eligible for subsidiary protection, as required by Articles 14(2) and 19(4).

There has been a growing catalogue of violence and human rights abuses on both sides – by the Tamil Tigers and, sadly, the government security forces.