The aim of the thesis is to analyse the non-bank regulatory framework with particular attention devoted to hedge funds and private equity funds. The thesis describes functioning of the funds, discusses their performance during the global financial crisis of 2007-present and, predominantly, describes and analyses the EU and U.S. regulatory reforms with respect to these institutions which have arisen as a response to the crisis. Based on the analysis of the measures incorporated in these reforms, the thesis outlines its own proposal of an alternative investment fund regulatory framework which, if applied, would lead to a more efficient functioning of the alternative investment industry than what is likely to be the outcome of the already adopted reforms. The nature of the thesis is institutional; its methodology is characterized by a broad literature survey. Hedge funds and private equity funds are considered both in pre-crisis context as well as in circumstances that have been brought about by the crisis. Several hypotheses concerning systemic risk and the approach of the regulatory reforms to it are assessed. Mostly qualitative analysis is employed to evaluate the hypotheses.

This thesis deals with the topic of international mediation. It starts with its theoretical concept and analyzes the individual elements of the definition of mediation, which it divides into essential and additional. It then covers the history of the mediation procedure in the ancient times and the modern approach. It also attempts to solve the confusing terminology of mediation and conciliation. In chapter two it moves on to the description of other hybrid forms such as MEDALOA, med-arb or arb-med. The third chapter describes the individual forms of mediation with focus on court mediation in particular. First, its implementation possibilities are explored, which are followed by practical examples of judicial mediation in different countries. Chapter four is devoted to the regulatory framework starting with international documents. It compares mediation rules of several mediation institutions across the world. Then it investigates the pros and cons of the European mediation directive 2008/52/ES and two codices of behavior for mediators. Finally, the last part of chapter four is concerned with Czech mediation law. It provides an outline of the Law No. 202/2012 Coll. and the newest soft law document - Codex of attorney-mediator. Information from this chapter is transferred to a comparison table for more...

of the thesis The subject of my thesis is existing shortcomings in regulation of insurance mediation and possible ways of their rectification. Its first introductory chapter explains who insurance intermediaries are and how significant role they play in distribution of insurance products and specifies the scope of the thesis, its aims and methods. The second chapter is devoted to the legal regulation of insurance mediation adopted at the level of European Union and its aspects. It provides a brief description of history of the EU regulation of insurance mediation and more detailed description of its recent state represented by the Insurance Mediation Directive. The third chapter of the thesis deals with the legal regulation of insurance mediation adopted at the Czech national level, which is represented by the Act on insurance intermediaries and independent loss adjusters and respective decree of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic. In the fourth chapter I summarize the existing shortcomings in legal regulation of insurance mediation both at EU and Czech level which I have identified on basis of legal literature specialized on this topic, comparison of Czech national regulation with its European model as well as my own analysis, and make proposals how to possibly rectify the existing...

This thesis deals with the Directive on the free movement of services (Directive 2006/123/EC, on services in the internal market) and its implementation in the Czech law. The thesis is divided into four parts. In the first part, there is a brief overview of the regulation of the free movement of services and the freedom of establishment in the primary law of the European Union. The second part examines the Directive itself while analysing the process of its enactment and then examines its content in comparison with the existing legal regulation and specifies the contributions of the Directive to the provision of services in the internal market. The third part provides an overview of the implementation in the European Union Member States and constitutes the basis for comparison for the assessment of the Czech legal regulation. The fourth part explores the implementation of the Directive in the Czech Republic while assessing its quality on the basis of the analysis of the two implementing acts, comments of the European Commission and comparison with the regulation in other Member States. The result of the thesis is that due to the omission of the country of origin principle from the draft, the Directive was deprived of an element which would make of it a fundamental shift in the regulation of the...

Mediation as a method of alternative dispute resolution The purpose of this thesis is to introduce mediation as a method of alternative dispute resolution and point out its potential. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter presents various methods of ADR including so-called hybrid forms. There is also a summary of advantages and disadvantages that are associated with these forms of dispute resolution. The second chapter starts with the historical development of the institute of mediation and continues with the presentation of various forms of mediation. This chapter also discusses a mediator, his role and aspects that should be taken into account when parties want to choose a suitable person. Then particular phases of the mediation process are analysed. The third chapter is concerned with the international regulation of mediation. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on mediation regulation contained in the mediation rules of particular international institutions. To ensure better clarity and mutual comparison the most important information are presented in tables attached to this thesis. The second part relates to the European regulation of mediation. It mentions the most important documents adopted by the EU in order to develop this amicable dispute...

Groundwater Protection Legislation The theme of this thesis is the issue of legislation of protection of groundwater in the context of Czech and European legislation. At the outset, this work deals with the historical development of the legislation concerning the protection of waters in the Czech Republic and the legal nature of water to which they relate and adjustment of their property. The main emphasis of this work is put on administrative-legal, conceptual and economic tools for protecting groundwater and deals also with the Water Framework Directive, which is the main regulation of the European Union in this area. Also presented are the main changes proposed by the amendment to the Water Act. This study thus provides an overview of current legislation on protection of groundwater, its evaluation and is concluded with author's forecast for world development in this area in the 21st century.

An impact of the qualifying directive upon the position of a refugee in the EU - Abstract This thesis deals with an impact of the qualifying directive upon the position of a refugee in the EU. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse partial provisions of the directive1 and to explore their impact upon refugees and people with a status of subsidiary protection. Issues of asylum are being discussed a lot at this time with regard to thousands of people in need of an international protection. The thesis consists of introduction, five chapters and conclusion. The introduction determines subject matter of the thesis and factual situation of asylum in EU. Chapter one is divided into two subchapters. Subchapter one illustrates historical development of Common European Asylum System. Subchapter two outlines legal basis of the directive and it is divided into four parts. Chapter two is the most comprehensive. It explains conditions for an obtaining of refugee status in accordance with the direction. It contents five subchapters. Subchapter one focuses on definition of refugee which features person needs for obtaining refugee status. Subchapter two describes the term "well-founded fear of persecution" which is crucial for the definition. It consists of four parts and each of them deals with the specific aspects of the...

The purpose of my master thesis is to analyse the incorporation of Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control in the Czech legal order, show the strengths and weaknesses of current regulations and to find some solution. The thesis is composed of chapters, each of them concerning different aspects of integrated pollution prevention and control (hereinafter "IPPC"). Chapter One is introductory and explains origin of environmental protection. Chapter Two concentrates on sources of regulation of IPPC, firstly explain the role of international law in environmental protection. The chapter is subdivided into two parts. Part One presents the evolution of environmental law of the European Union and Part Two focuses on Czech legislation of IPPC. Chapter Three deals with the principles of the IPPC regulations. The fundamental principles are principles of prevention, highest value, sustainable development, integrated protection, best available techniques and participation of public. The basic legal instruments of the IPPC are treated in Chapter Four which is subdivided into three parts. Part One deals with the integrated permit; Part Two describes subjects of regulation of the IPPC and Part Three its obligations. Chapter Five concerning the procedure to issue integrated permits...

Gävle municipality strives to treat all stormwater that may prevent river and lakes from achieving a good water status under the EU water framework directive. There are three stormwater outflows at Västra vägen in Gävle that discharge untreated stormwater to Gavleån. Gävle municipality has an ambition to clean stormwater as close to the source as possible. The purpose of this study is to conduct a multi-criteria analysis to identify stormwater treatment solutions that are suitable from a technical, ecological, economic and sociocultural perspective. According to EU water framework directive Gavleån does not achieve a good chemical and ecological status because of the presence of contaminates in the river. The alternatives that will be evaluated in the multi-criteria analysis consists of a screen pool, percolation storage and four different types of filters. Except these six solutions a null alternative will be included to evaluate if the situation does not change and the stormwater is not treated as it is today. These seven alternatives will be evaluated by a panel that consists of people who work with stormwater or with matters related to the categories in the multi-criteria analysis. The panel's main priority of categories and criteria is produced by the average value of all participants’ weightings and ratings. The most important category was considered to be the sociocultural perspective and the least important was the technical perspective. The criteria that were considered important for the respective categories were operating and maintenance cost (economic perspective), reduction of pollution (technical perspective), environmental impact, land use (ecological perspective, shared position), and outdoor recreation (sociocultural perspective). The option that received the highest score in the analysis was null alternative followed by the screen pool. That is because the null alternative is considered to have the most positive impact on the socio-cultural perspective, ecological perspective and financial perspective while screen pool scored highest in the technical perspective. The results of the MCA should also be interpreted by different stakeholders' priorities and can be seen in Section 6 in which the scoring of all treatment alternatives are reported. / Gävle kommun strävar efter att rena allt dagvatten som kan försvåra möjligheten att sjöar och vattendrag uppnår en god status enligt EU:s vattendirektiv. Det finns tre dagvattenutlopp vid Västra vägen i Gävle som släpper ut orenat dagvatten till Gavleån. Detta dagvatten har Gävle kommun en ambition av att rena genom ett lokalt omhändertagande så nära källan som möjligt. Syftet med denna studie är att genomföra en multikriterieanalys för att identifiera lösningsåtgärder som kan anses som lämpliga utifrån ett tekniskt, ekologiskt, ekonomiskt och sociokulturellt perspektiv. Enligt EU:s vattendirektiv så uppnår inte Gavleån en god kemisk och ekologiskt status på grund av föroreningar som påträffats under mätningar i ån. Alternativen som kommer att utvärderas i multikriterieanalysen består av en skärmbassäng, perkolationsmagasin samt fyra olika gatubrunnsfilter. Förutom dessa alternativ så inkluderas även ett nollalternativ som avser att ingen förändring sker där dagvattnet inte renas. Dessa sju alternativ kommer att viktas av en viktningsgrupp som består av personer som på olika sätt arbetar med dagvatten eller med frågor som är relaterade till kriterierna i multikriterieanalysen. Viktningsgruppens prioriteringar av kategorier och kriterier framställs genom medelvärdet av alla deltagares betygsättning. Den viktigaste kategorin ansågs vara det sociokulturella perspektivet och den minst viktiga var det tekniska perspektivet. Kriterierna som ansågs viktiga för respektive kategori var drift och underhållskostnad (ekonomiskt perspektiv), reducering av föroreningar (tekniskt perspektiv), miljöpåverkan, markanvändning (ekologiskt perspektiv, delad plats), och rekreation och friluftsliv (sociokulturellt perspektiv). Alternativet som fick högst poäng i viktningen var nollalternativet som blev följt av skärmbassäng. Nollalternativet ansågs ha mest positiv inverkan på det sociokulturella perspektivet, ekologiska perspektivet och ekonomiska perspektivet medans skärmbassäng fick högst poäng under det tekniska perspektivet. Resultatet av multikriterieanalysen ska tolkas efter olika intressenters prioriteringar och kan göras i avsnitt 7 där poängsättningen av alla reningstekniker redovisas.

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