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Canada, Mexico and the United States cooperating to protect North America's shared environment.
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Bryan Williams, the Canadian lawyer serving on the CEC legal advisory group, was recently named Judge in the Appeals Court of British Columbia. Williams has left the law firm Swinton and Company, where he was a main partner. The CEC will announce a replacement for Williams on the legal advisory panel this spring. The CEC Secretariat created the legal advisory group last year to advise the CEC Secretariat on the legal aspects relating to citizen petitions alleging that any one of the NAFTA countries is failing to enforce an environmental law. Reviewing such petitions, which can be filed under Article 14 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), is the responsibility of the CEC Secretariat. The legal advisory group includes a lawyer from nacec.each of the NAFTA countries. Carlos Bernal is the main partner of Noriega y Asociados, A.C. and former Minister Counselor in Mexico’s Permanent Mission in the United Nations. from nacec.the United States, Steven C. McCaffrey is a professor at the McGeorge School in Sacramento, California and is a former member and President of the International Law Commission. CEC Resource CenterThe place to find answers.You will find just about anything you are looking for on the environment, within the context of NAFTA, at the Resource Center of the CEC. The Center operates as an intermediary between other libraries and specialized institutions, and serves members of the community who are concerned with the effects of trilateral commerce on the environment and with North American environment issues in general.
The Center can locate information in any format, whether it is in hard copy (the printed word), on CD-ROM databases, or through the Internet. Inquiries are welcome in English, French, or Spanish, the three official CEC languages. If you cannot visit us in person, the Center provides a distance reference service via mail, telephone, fax, modem, or e-mail.
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