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Keith Nuthall
FIBRE plant breeders can from June market their products in the European Union as broad categories of varieties and as hybrids of old species under changes to EU seed legislation approved by the Council of Ministers.…

Keith Nuthall
MEMBER States of the European Union have 18 months to implement a new directive on collateral, which will harmonise national laws limiting credit risks in financial transactions through the posting of securities and cash as collateral.

In Brussels-terms, the new European legislation has been passed speedily, having been first tabled by the European Commission last March.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE EUROPEAN Union has given itself until the end of this month (May) to make a crunch decision over whether to further subsidise the future insurance of the continent’s airlines in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, in New York last September.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given European airlines a stay of execution regarding the payment of emergency state aid to meet their insurance cover needs in a market still reeling from September 11. Brussels will allow national governments to continue subsidies until June 30; meantwhile it will try and agree a long term solution with the airline industry and Member States.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A GROUNDBREAKING and comprehensive resolution on tourism passed by the EU Council of Ministers last week, which contained a wide range of policy goals and plans for action, has been given a lukewarm welcome by the European travel industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has found that Italy has breached the EU’s 1991 urban waste water directive by allowing discharges in Milan to be released indirectly into environmentally sensitive rivers and seawater without being subjected to specific treatment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union Commissioner for competition policy, Mario Monti, has

stated his willingness to consider a postponement of the key location

clauses of the proposed reform of the block exemption system for new car

sales, with implementation being delayed beyond 2003.…

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 MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers will be forced into bankruptcy if they do not quickly get paid the money owed to them by the distribution arm of General Publishing Co. Ltd, owner of Stoddart Publishing and House of Anansi Press, according to a recent Ontario Superior Court document.…

BY MARK ROWE
DISPUTES over who owns an idea and the right to stop others from stealing it probably date back to the cavemen who invented the wheel. It was most likely resolved by the application of a large club to the head.…