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ASIAN WARRANTY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A FRENCH company is launching its car repair warranty service in Sri Lanka, claiming that it is the first of its kind in south Asia. SAGE Guarantee Automobile said that it is investing Euro 1 million in the scheme, which it would use as a springboard to attack the Indian market.…
ECJ MERGER CASE
BY ALAN OSBORN
A RULING by the European Court of First Instance today (Friday) has flatly rejected the analysis and judgments made by the European Commission about drinks packaging when it last year banned the proposed merger between the Tetra Laval group, world leader in carton packaging, and the French company Sidel, which designs and manufactures plastic bottles.…
SPAIN & ITALY
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken the first step towards legal action against Spain and Italy over legislation in those countries to control the voting rights of investments by foreign state companies in the energy sector. Brussels says the laws “may unduly restrict free movement of capital as enshrined in European Union (EU) treaty rules.”…
FRANCE ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has been censured by the European Court of Justice for failing to write into its national laws a European Union (EU) directive, which would make it easier for lawyers to work across the EU.
Directive 98/5/EC on the practice of the profession of lawyer on a permanent basis in a Member State other than that in which the qualification was acquired imposes duties on national governments to register foreign EU lawyers and allow them to work on their territories.…
UNESCO FUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…
TERROR SIMULATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMERGENCY response networks that have been built up across the European Union (EU) in the wake of the September 11 disaster are being tested next week in Brussels’ first ever civil protection exercise.
Euratox 2002 will simulate a terror attack involving radiological and chemical fall-out and be staged at a French military camp at Canjuers, Var, Côte-d’Azur.…
FRANCE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission, which claims that Paris is breaking European Union (EU) public procurement rules governing the buying of goods and services by utilities.…
EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken an important step towards giving EU water legislation more teeth, by moving against Belgium’s system of “tacit approvals” of pollution. Belgian law allows companies to assume that they have a right to pollute if they make an application to regulators and then receive no reply.…
TOBACCO DISPLAY CASE
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SMALL-SHOP owners in Saskatchewan will be bound by the province’s Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits the display of cigarettes in retail outlets where they can be seen by under-18’s, after the collapse of a court challenge by a tobacco firm that argued the law is unconstitutional in Canada.…
EFSA MANAGEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST meeting of the management board of the European Food Safety Authority has elected Britain’s Chair of the National Consumer Council, Deridre Hutton, as a vice-chair and appointed as chairman Codex Alimentarius vice-chair Dr Stuart Slorach, also Deputy Director of the Swedish National Food Administration.…