Even with the rapid changes in the level of complexity and the uncertainty of the environment in which Belgian sea fisheries operate, fisheries management in Belgium is still mainly based on restrictive policy instruments founded in the biological approach of fisheries management science. Since they will continue to play an important role, this paper evaluated changes in three restrictive polic...

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The award of the digital dividend can consolidate auctions as the preferred mechanism for spectrum allocation. Knowing in advance an estimate of what the results of an auction with these characteristics could be would be unquestionably useful for those in charge of designing the process, even if at the end another method such as a beauty contest is chosen. This article provides a simulation of ...

This article attempts to ask the question of whether copyleft free software licences constitute valid legal contracts, in particular with regard to the fact that they may create obligations through a distribution chain. There is increasing interest in the non-proprietary licence model expressed in popular documents such as the general public licence (‘‘GPL’’), but not enough work has been done ...