Search Results for: European Court of Justice

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE ASSOCIATION of Travel Agents and Tour Operators in the EU

(ECTAA) is advising its members to seek advice from lawyers over their

potential exposure to claims arising out of so-called tailor-made holidays.

Until now most agents have taken the view that tailor-made holidays are not

covered by EU package holiday legislation but this now has to be revised in

the light of a judgement by the European Court of Justice.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the start-up of inreon, (NOTE: all letters in lower case) an online business-to-business reinsurance trading platform set up by Swiss Re and Munich Re. The service will enable insurers to obtain bids from reinsurers on big property and catastrophic risks and conclude contracts online.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a plan to break the World Trade Organisation deadlock over changes to its TRIPS regime (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights), which would allow developing countries to licence imported generic drugs in emergencies, while protecting the global pharmaceutical sector.…

Keith Nuthall
FORMAL guidelines have been issued by the European Commission, which call on EU Member States to ensure that auditors should be banned from carrying out a statutory audit if they have any possibly compromising relationship with a client.

These, said Brussels official Regulation, “may include any financial, business, employment or other link, or any situations where the auditors provide to the same client services additional to the audit.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW joint venture to operate an Internet business-to-business marketplace for office supplies has been given competition clearance by the European Commission. It will be called Date AS, and will sell stationary equipment and consumables such as pencils, pens, paper, hardware and mobile phones.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SURVEY conducted by the Food and Veterinary Office of the European Commission on pesticide residues has found that maximum safety limits were exceeded in 4.5 per cent of 45,000 samples of fruit, vegetable and cereals analysed in the year 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is expected to demand that celery and celery products are added to a list of potentially allergenic ingredients that must be named on labels for food products sold in the EU. Other adopted amendments agreed by the parliament’s environment committee to a new proposed directive now under discussion include an extension of the compulsory labeling list to include mustard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES are underway to restructure the Ukraine’s airline industry, with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development planning to fund consultants who would advise the country’s two main commercial players on how they could successfully merge their services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN UNCHARACTERISTIC failure to be punctual is the reason why the German government lost a bid at the European Court of Justice to overturn last year’s European Union directive on tobacco manufacturing and labelling.

Berlin officials had until last October 11 to launch an appeal against the law, which had been published in the EU Official Journal on July 18.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LONG-RUNNING German coal industry case involving the acquisition in 1998 of Saarbergwerke AG and Preussag Anthrazit GmbH by RAG Aktiengesellschaft (RAG) took another turn on Tuesday (May 7), when the European Commission approved the deal, nullifying a European Court of First Instance ruling.…