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TRUCK SITE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNET marketplaces are springing up for a variety of products and services, but two German companies hope to corner the market in an unlikely e-commerce supply, namely fork-lift and warehouse trucks. The European Commission has approved a proposal by German truck manufacturers Linde AG and Jungheinrich AG to set up a European Union Internet market place for second-hand industrial trucks.…
ITALY - ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to take Italy to the European Court of Justice, claiming that its public procurement procedures for local and state administrations hiring architects, break EU rules on fairness and openness. The Commission has raised three objections regarding the relevant Italian law, (the “1997 Karrer decree).…
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers are to be asked to approve new pan-European Union construction standards, with the aim of improving the energy efficiency of new and renovated buildings, (above 1,500 square metres), by up to 22 per cent in the year 2010.…
WTO LIBERALISATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the Australian government for the dismantling of bureaucratic barriers that prevent architects from practising abroad. Its detailed suggestions were made in the ongoing WTO services round, which has just reached the end of its first stage.…
SALES DELAY
KEITH NUTHALL
ADVICE from the European Commission, that retailers with branches in the EU countries introducing notes and coins of the Euro next year should avoid holding their winter sales until the New Year deadline for the launch of the new cash has passed, has been attacked by the British Retail Consortium.…
TRADE DEALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted quotas and tariffs restricting imports of clothing products from the Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Bosnia. This follows a promise from these countries that they would reduce tariff and quota barriers restricting the export of EU-made clothing products.…
TESCO CASE
BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH supermarket giants Tesco and Costco are likely to win a European Court of Justice case over the parallel trading of Levis Jeans.
The preliminary ruling from the Advocate General of the ECJ ruled that the trademark holder should not have the power to dictate where retailers purchase their goods.…
TESCO CASE
BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH supermarket giant Tesco is likely to win a European Court of Justice case over the parallel trading of Levis Jeans.
The preliminary ruling from the Advocate General of the ECJ ruled that the trademark holder should not have the power to dictate where retailers purchase their goods.…
ESTONIA
Keith Nuthall
ESTONIA has announced how it intends to implement the first three phases of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, fulfilling commitments made on its 1999 accession, to comply with WTO treaties.…
EU-INDIA LATEST
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union and India have agreed that Brussels has until August 14, this year, to implement the rulings of the WTO disputes settlement body, that found that the EU had wrongfully imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of Indian cotton-type bed linen.…