The European Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers, which represents Europe's leading electronics makers like Philips Electronics NV, Grundig AG, and Sony Europe say they would like to do away with the regional codes.
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A group representing the South Pacific nations is trying to formulate a regional code of conduct aimed at reducing logging, which they say threaten to exhaust commercial reserves in the Solomons by 2003.
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But this does not fully solve the problem, as the authorities may eventually run out of three-numeral regional codes, and a fourth digit will not fit without changing the standardized layout of the plate.
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In the declaration, Asean reaffirmed its one-China policy while China pledged to discuss the South China Sea dispute and adhere to international and regional codes of conduct, including the Asean Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
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The communique, hailed ASEAN's role in maintaining " peace, stability and prosperity " and suggested " a regional code of conduct " on disputes over who owns the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
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The Westchester County Airport is currently served by five commercial airlines which includes regional code sharing affiliates flying scheduled passenger service on behalf of their respective major airline partners to sixteen destinations in the United States.
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A huge percentage of players outside of North America can be easily modified ( and are even sold pre-modified by mainstream stores such as Amazon . co . uk ) to ignore the regional codes on a disc.
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"We would be happy to get rid of the regional codes as they make the manufacturing process more complicated, " said Rony Van Haegenbergh, Technical Director at EACEM, adding the system could not fully prevent abuses of copyright.
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Late Friday, the Federal Court in Melbourne ruled Sony's regional coding system _ which it said protected its intellectual property _ went beyond the provisions of Australia's Copyright Act, and that Johnson's " chipping " device was legal.
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"We sent letters on Friday to the seven major distributors to find out whether the U . S . system of'regional coding'is used to artificially charge higher prices than in the EU, " said EU spokesman Michael Tscherny.
