Search Results for: European Court of Justice

BY MONICA DOBIE
INDIGO Books & Music Inc. and the Canadian Booksellers Association have gone to the Federal Court of Canada to annul last month’s federal government decision to let Amazon.ca operate in Canada, despite regulations requiring a bookseller to be majority Canadian owned.…

BY PHILIP FINE

ARTHUR Andersen LLP has all but shut its doors, after the former accountancy powerhouse relinquished its licence to practice auditing in every American state. The US member firm of Andersen Worldwide, which was once the fifth largest auditing firm in the country, told the US Securities and Exchange Commission it would cease auditing public companies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE SPANISH company Logista, a wholesale distributor of tobacco in Spain and Portugal, is to take joint control of Logesta Gestion de Transporte in a move that will extend Logista’s activities into freight forwarding. The European Commission has approved a deal under which Logista will share control with another Spanish company, Gestcamp, which operates in the warehousing sector among others.…

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 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
IN what must rank as one of the more bizarre publicity stunts in the paint industry, the European Space Agency is to fly a small glass globe containing a splash of Ferrari’s fabled red paint around Mars, in its Mars Express satellite next year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NATIONAL Coal Mining Museum for England is to receive a share of Euro 69 million in grants made by the European Commission under the EU LIFE Environment scheme. The museum’s INWATCO project has been selected for funding; it aims to demonstrate and evaluate innovative techniques and procedures for the integrated management of groundwater resources in coal mining areas.…

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.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a deal under which the UK’s Corus Group will relinquish its joint control of the Finnish undertaking AvestaPolarit Oyj Abp, a producer of stainless steel to the present joint owner Outokumpu Oyj, a Finnish mining company.…

Keith Nuthall
BRAZIL and the European Commission have agreed a Memorandum of

Understanding paving the way for a formal textile trading agreement which, says Brussels, “significantly improves access for textile products on each other’s markets.” The deal removes the quotas on Brazil’s textiles and clothing exports to the EU.…