The #CPVO plant of the month🌱🗓️ for #January is Malus domestica!🍏

This plant has one of the highest numbers of applications for #EU #plantvarietyrights among fruit species.

This is hardly surprising as apples are among Europe's favourite fruits.

#NewPlantVarieties #apples

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1617499420853174273

RT @CloudFerro: See 'Greenland-Tiniteqilaaq' by Emanuele Capizzi – the #January image of 2023 #CloudFerro
#calendar composed of winning entries to #SeizeTheBeautyOfOurPlanet contest for best #satellite image of #water on Earth -> https://cloudferro.com/en/contest2022/
@CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 #Greenland

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1614208136239366144

Fun with Criminal Law, Part II.

#Jan6
#January 6

I'm working my way through the introduction to the Select Committee's January 6 report, and I've arrived at the second statute under which the committee is making criminal referrals:

Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371)

As a general rule, criminal conspiracy statutes allow prosecutors a wide net.

We start with the elements . . .

1/

The statute was intended to close that loophole. So defense lawyers argued that it doesn't apply to something like the counting of votes.

The defense is likely to lose, but we don't know for sure, so (3) isn't quite as straightforward as it looks.

(Actually with the law, most things are not as straightforward as they seem.)

In fact, correct answer to any legal question is, "It's complicated."

Forgot to add hashtags.

(This is the end of the thread.)

#Jan6
#January 6

4/

RT @ZennerBXL: ⚠️My December #AIAct update: 5 Technical Meetings & 1 Shadows scheduled in @europarl_en for #January. 10 CA batches have been discussed. Still parked (among others) are AI def & Art 3, 28, 29, 43

👉Download the latest documents such as @EUCouncil's GA via https://www.kaizenner.eu/post/aiact-part3

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/AxelVossMdEP/status/1602694512484270080

Edward Gibbon — perhaps best known for his book The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — died 16 #January 1794.

He found becoming an MP gave him "just the mixture of business, of study, & of society, which I always imagined I should, & now I find I do, like." 
He thought #Parliament "a very agreeable coffee house".