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GERMANY FEED IN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVERSING its earlier position, the European Commission has agreed that the German grid feed-in laws on the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources and from combined heat and power do not constitute state aid, that Brussels could, in theory, ban.…
BROUGHTON INTERVIEW
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN September 1901 the legendary American tycoon James Buchanan “Buck” Duke entered the office of the Player brothers’ cigarette firm in Nottingham with the unforgettable words: “Hello boys, I’m Duke from New York, come to buy your business.”…
TOON ARMY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LEGALITY within the European Union of strict alcohol advertising laws such as France’s Loi Evin is in doubt because of an unlikely case at the European Court of Justice involving Newcastle United Football Club. The team is fighting legal action brought by Bacardi-Martini and Cellier des Dauphins, who claim they lost money when Newcastle programmed its revolving touchline hoardings to display their advertisements for swift 1-2 second intervals.…
THAILAND STAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation has agreed to reschedule US$204 million of its loans to Star Petroleum Refining Company Limited, Thailand, which is 64 per cent owned by Chevron-Texaco. The Thai company’s overall debt is US$549 million.…
SUGAR SCAM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SUGAR buyers are being stung by fraudsters offering consignments of non-existent sugar via the Internet, the International Chamber of Commerce has warned. Its Commercial Crime Services department says some websites use “supermarket sales tactics” to advertise cargoes of sugar that never arrive, leaving unwary buyers who pay advances out of pocket.…
COCHIN INTERNATIONAL
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
AN ADDITIONAL injection of IND Rupees 220 million, (US$4.5 million), is to be invested into Cochin International Airport Ltd, in Kerala, India, by five directors of the company, raising their stake to 26 per cent. The move is part of a plan by the company to expand its equity base to INDRupees 2,000 million, (US$40.8 million), from the current IND Rupees 900 million, (US$18.3 million), to liquidate high-cost loans that have been eating into its profits.…
END OF LIFE VEHICLES
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
GERMANY is set to become the first European country to transpose the controversial EU End-of-Life Vehicle Directive (ELV), while Britain appears to be dragging its feet over implementation.
All 15 Member States failed to meet the ELV deadline of April 21, 2002, for introducing laws on the disposal and recycling of vehicles.…
CITES REFORMS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MOVE to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids has been made by the USA, which has formally proposed that six species are exempted from controls under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…
BAT HISTORY
BY ALAN OSBORN
1902-1912
British American Tobacco was created on September 29th 1902 as a joint venture between Imperial Tobacco Company of the UK and the American Tobacco Company of the US following a fierce trade war. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other’s domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.…
EU COMPANY LAW
Keith Nuthall
A REFORM of the EU’s First Company Law Directive has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.
The aim said the Commission, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public.”…