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This entry covers various issues related to conflict prevention and resolution as of April 2010. The benefits of Augmented Option Analysis tool are cited, one of which is integrating factors with Decision Tree Analysis (DTA). Jordan has a voluntary and private arbitration, which is considered as its early and traditional form. The Italian Council of Ministers has approved the legislative decree on mediation aimed at conciliation of civil and commercial disputes effective on March 20.

The article reports that a one-year moratorium on the nuclear power development program has been approved by Italy's Council of Ministers in an effort to avoid hasty decision-making by the government prompted by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in Japan. In conjunction to this, the Council has issued a decree that will integrate existing nuclear legislation which addresses several issues like the establishment of national nuclear research, licensing procedures, and defining criteria for selecting sites and reactor types.

Focuses on two aviation-related programs of the Italian government as of April 5, 1999. Italy Council of Ministers' approval of a 310-million-euro financing package to allow the country to take a lead role in Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System; Support on the development of critical technologies for SkyMedCosmo, a constellation of seven small optical/radar sensing satellites.

The article reports on the move by the Italian Council of Ministers to impose corporate governance rules on TIM, formerly known as Telecom Italia, in response to French company Vivendi's shareholding. The Golden Power instruction from the council requires TIM and its subsidiaries Sparkle and Telsy to assign national security functions to a member of the board of directors who is an Italian citizen, among other requirements. Vivendi owns a 24% stake in TIM.

The article reports that the Italian Council of Ministers has recently approved the bill ratifying the deed of revision of the European Patent Convention 2000 (EPC 2000). The bill is now being examined by the Italian Parliament and its approval is expected by the date that the Convention comes into force. The reviewed version of the EPC will enter into force no later than December 13, 2007.