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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has significantly watered down its proposed

directive on prospectuses following intense lobbying by the financial services industry, the European Parliament and some Member States including Britain. The main change announced today (Friday) is to exempt small and medium-sized companies from the obligation to publish a draft prospectus if their public offering is Euro 2.5 million (Pounds 1.55 million) or less.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE VANCOUVER Airport Authority has won an appeal in the British Columbia Court of Appeal in a case involving local residents seeking compensation for effects of aircraft on a new runway, opened in 1996

Larry Berg, CEO of the Vancouver International Airport Authority, said: “The court has recognised the principle in law that all aspects of vital public works for the community at large are deemed authorised by the government that orders them.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission because of its failure to scrap a law insisting that labels on foodstuffs imported into France must be written in the French language. Brussels says this breaks EU free trade rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is being brought before the European Court of Justice for its failure to adopt EU legislation insisting on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications of harbour pilots. The European Commission said the UK had failed to put into national law the directive 1999/42/EC and said this was “likely to prove an obstacle to the free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in the sectors concerned.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development will soon be inviting bids for contracts to improve Kazakhstan’s Atyrau International Airport. It is lending the airport company US$24.5 million, which will pay for the widening and strengthening of the runway, taxiways and apron areas, plus the replacement of airfield lighting, including floodlighting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s industry committee has approved a European Commission proposal that the European Union and Euratom should sign up to the International Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved in principle the passage of a directive on “occurrence reporting in civil aviation,” which will provide for the circulation of information about near misses amongst Member States.

This law will now be passed to the European Parliament, for its first reading; it would tell governments to draw up mandatory and confidential reports on incidents, defects and malfunctions which may constitute a hazard for civil aviation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…