Search Results for: Swiss

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded project has developed a technical system to search and retrieve the increasing amount of information held in digital moving image video, still photograph or audio archives. Its coordinators say that the project will be very useful for museums and research institutes who store such material.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed a Switzerland request for it to declare that night flight restrictions, imposed by Germany on planes flying across its territory towards Zurich airport, break a European Union-Swiss aviation agreement. Brussels said they were legal by applying to all air carriers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed a request from Switzerland for it to declare that night flight restrictions imposed by Germany on planes flying across its territory towards Zurich airport break a European Union-Swiss aviation agreement. Instead, the Commission has ruled the noise-related rules are legal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is inching towards breaking its de facto ban on approving new genetically modified foodstuffs, with its standing committee on the food chain and animal health discussing whether to approve the sale of a GM sweet corn (Bt-11), which is manufactured by Swiss company Syngenta to produces its own insecticide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted competition clearance to the acquisition by Spain’s Vidacaixa of Swiss Life España (SLE) from the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Company Holding. Brussels has investigated concerns that the merged company could be too dominant in the Spanish life insurance sector, but concluded that highest possible combined market share would “not exceed 20 per cent” and that “there remains a sufficient number of strong competitors”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is inching towards breaking its de facto ban on approving new genetically modified foodstuffs, with its standing committee on the food chain and animal health discussing whether to approve the sale of a GM sweet corn (Bt-11), which is manufactured by Swiss company Syngenta to produces its own insecticide.…

BY MARK ROWE
UZBEKISTAN has been at the forefront of international AML efforts in the central Asia region, a spokesman for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told the Money Laundering Bulletin. Uzbekistan has the most advanced AML legislation and apparatus of all the former Soviet Central Asia and has signed more than 20 bilateral and multilateral agreements on cooperation in fighting illicit drug trafficking with its Central Asian neighbours, as well as with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, according to the International Money Laundering Information Network (IMOLIN), (whose contributing members include the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the United Nations and the World Customs Organisation).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A FIERCE row over the blame for the electricity blackout which affected virtually the whole of Italy on September 28 has broken out between the Italian, Swiss and French governments, which may delay Rome’s moves towards liberalisation of its energy markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has blocked the participation of Belgium’s Wallonia regional government in a joint venture with Swiss steel specialist Duferco and France’s Usinor to produce carbon steel and alloy slabs. The new company – called Carsid SA – was to work from the Usinor Sacilor controlled Cockerill Sambre mill in Charleroi, following a 2001 closure announcement by Usinor of the plant’s hot-rolling line.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS are being made to the EU-Switzerland agricultural trade agreement, to ensure Swiss regulations controlling BSE are recognised by all EU Member States, prompting the lifting of beef import restrictions by various European countries.…