Search Results for: European Court of Justice

BY MARK ROWE
CAN the European Union’s single skies plan become a reality inside 30 months? It is a topical subject, with the recent crash over Germany underlining the arguments in favour and against the project, which should lead to planes flying above 28,000 feet being guided and controlled by unified units of air traffic controllers, replacing the current piecemeal system of national flight monitoring and guidance.…

BY ALAN OSBORN AND PHILIP FINE

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition authority has cleared the purchase

by General Motors of a series of production and sales outlets of the South

Korean car manufacturer Daewoo.

GM is to acquire some of Daewoo’s production facilities for passenger cars

and light commercial vehicles in Korea and Vietnam together with sales

subsidiaries in Austria, the Benelux region, (Belgium, Netherlands and

Luxembourg), France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SAFETY assessment procedures for authorising manufactured smoke flavourings have been proposed by the European Commission. They are produced by condensing fresh smoke into water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products has confirmed that the European marketing authorisation to Chiron SpA for Triacelluvax, (a combined diptheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis vaccine), has been withdrawn. The drug was only marketed in Italy and Chiron decided to cease selling the drug, as alternatives are available across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of rounds of public consultation has been launched by the European Commission on detailed guidelines for clinical trials on medicinal products. These include rules on good clinical practice, ethics committee procedures, authorisation requests, making amendments to applications and guidance on the collection, verification and presentation of adverse reaction reports arising from clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOUGH restrictions applied by the Austrian and Swedish governments on the use of cadmium in their territories are likely to be scrapped, after the European Court of Justice ruled that amendments to EU legislation permitting them to retain these rules were actually illegal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STAY of execution has been granted to American knitwear exporters, after the European Union Council of Ministers decided it would postpone the implementation of a first round of protective duties, erected in retaliation to the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A FEAT of legal logistics is about to be performed on the remote South Pacific island of Pitcairn.

Midway between New Zealand and Chile, Pitcairn was settled by the Bounty mutineers in 1790 and their descendents still populate this tiny British colony.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
A CHILD sexual abuse case will focus attention on one of the world’s most remote and famous islands: Pitcairn – a tiny British colony between New Zealand and Chile – which was settled by the Bounty mutineers in 1790.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Court of Justice has over-ruled a government deportation order issued against the Philippine wife of a British national, stating that the husband, who operates a cross-border business in the EU, may rely on EU law to protect his wife’s rights of residence.…