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Search Results for: Icelandic

5 results out of 55 results found for 'Icelandic'.

ICELAND IMPORTER

1st Jun 2002

Keith Nuthall
AN ICELANDIC drinks importer could win compensation from the Iceland government, after the European Free Trade Area Court found that Reykjavik had broken the rules of the European Economic Area, (of which Iceland is a part), by maintaining its alcohol importation monopoly until December 1995.…

ICELAND CASE

1st Jun 2002

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ICELANDIC drinks importer could win compensation from the Iceland government, after the European Free Trade Area Court found that Reykjavik had broken the rules of the European Economic Area, (of which Iceland is a part), by maintaining its alcohol importation monopoly until December 1995.…

CORRUPTION

1st Apr 2002

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has highlighted how some member countries have been using their money laundering laws to criminalise corruption, while employing bribery or corruption laws to outlaw money laundering. A report by the UN Secretary General’s department on how the organisation’s 1996 declaration against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions has lead to national laws being tightened regarding these crimes lists a number of case studies.…

ICELAND VAT

1st Feb 2002

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER States of the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA), (Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein), should not charge higher VAT on foreign language books than they do on books in native tongues, the court of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) has ruled.…

FISH LEATHER

1st Dec 2001

BY SIGRUN DAVIDSDOTTIR
WHAT unlikely sort of new skin are the ‘hot’ designers/fashion houses such as Prada, John Galliano, Christian Dior, Stephane Kélian and Christian Louboutin using now?

Well, it is Icelandic fish skin – and it appears to be taking the world of high fashion by storm!…