1.   Adapting laws to avoid ideological and religious conflict is nothing new.

2.   Adapting the laws of antitrust to the digital age will be a challenge.

3.   But while other nations have also adapted their laws to human rights treaties, Belgium has gone farther than most.

4.   Authorities have sought expertise from Britain, Canada, The United States and the United Nations Drug Control Program to adapt the law locally.

5.   Candidates must also adapt their laws to match EU-wide regulations.

6.   He also said Polish laws were being adapted to meet international goals of combatting money-laundering and seizing drug-generated assets.

7.   Meanwhile, the government is working on adapting Swedish law to meet the requirements of the treaty, which also must be ratified by parliament.

8.   After that it will take a few more years to adapt Russian law to the new code, said the deputy justice minister, Yevgeni Sidorenko.