Search Results for: European Court of Justice

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
THE WORLD Bank is lending El Salvador US$18.2 million to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and accessibility of its judicial system. The central American country is emerging from a long civil war, which was marked by human rights abuses and a lack of due process.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lankan glove manufacturer Dipped Products Ltd has acquired a controlling interest in its European distributor ICO Guanti Spa, of Genoa, Italy. The payment of shares valued at US$855,000 (SL Rupees 81 million) is being funded from the company’s export earnings, Dipped Products told the Columbo stock exchange.…

Keith Nuthall
CUSTOMS teams in the European Union have singled out clothing and textile goods for legal proceedings based on pirated and counterfeit goods seized at the EU’s external borders. They account for almost 50 per cent of cases in 2001, despite involving only five per cent of fake copies of any product intercepted, (five million articles of textiles and clothing were seized last year).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Union’s LIFE-Environment programme has selected six British projects for grants under its latest allocation of 69 million euros (pounds 43 million). Altogether 109 projects in the EU countries are being supported, mostly in water resource management.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set detailed rules for work programmes of olive oil producer organisations receiving aid under its reformed EU olive subsidy regime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NORTH Sea is Europe’s blackspot for maritime sulphur dioxide emissions from fishing vessels, a report ordered by the European Commission has claimed. Pollution from ships in the southern North Sea east of East Anglia and north of the Straits of Dover is the worst in the continent, at between 0.2 and 0.5 kilotonnes annually per square 50 km, with emissions for the northern North Sea coming in at between 0.1 and 0.2 kilotonnes.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The more new buildings that go up, the more demand there is for sand and gravel for use as aggregate. In theory there’s an almost inexhaustible supply of it on the sea-bed. But each ton taken away leaves a hole under the sea that fills with water.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a research project examining the benefits and problems of cars using daytime running lights, as is common practice in Canada. It has issued tenders for research teams to bid for a contract to examine how they reduce accidents, including crashes with pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed merger between

Ernst & Young France and most of Andersen France’s business, finding that

although the deal would create France’s biggest auditor for large and

quoted companies there was “no danger of the creation of a single dominant

position.”…