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BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUBLISHERS have been warned they could lose control of fees they charge for library and other licensed reproductions of their works if the European Commission pursues plans to frame European Union (EU) legislation on collecting societies. Britain’s Publishers Licensing Society has broadly welcomed the proposals as improving transparency across the EU, but says booksellers will have to scrutinise the detail of any forthcoming legislation for common rules on royalties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) employers and employee organisations have been given nine months by the European Commission to negotiate agreements dealing with problems arising from the standard EU working time directive, or face legally binding reforms tabled by Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STATE aid of Euro 30 million has been authorised for the Spanish olive-pomace oil industry, as compensation for expensive manufacturing improvements it has been forced to make in the wake of a 2001 scandal about polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPANY and private car drivers moving from one European Union (EU) Member State to another should not be required to pay fresh registration taxes when they change their country of residence, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DISCUSSION paper has been launched by the European Commission, seeking comments on how far public-private partnerships (PPP) should be bound by European Union (EU) public procurement rules on open tendering. Brussels is concerned that the wide variety of PPPs, (contractual, cooperative, institutionalised, etc), is leading EU member countries to create divergent rules on how these partnerships buy in goods and services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission wants comments on how far public-private partnerships (PPP) should be bound by European Union (EU) public procurement rules on open tendering. Brussels is concerned that the wide variety of PPPs, (contractual, cooperative, institutionalised, etc), is leading EU member countries to create divergent rules on how these partnerships buy goods and services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXEMPTIONS from mineral levies paid on phosphate and nitrogen fertilisers in the Netherlands for garden centres or glasshouses have been confirmed as breaking the European Union (EU) nitrates directive by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The Netherlands’ MINAS system is based on the assumption that glasshouse flowers and crops take up 460 kg phosphates and 800 kg nitrogen per hectare per year, “considerably higher than for outdoor crops”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR a local government job with real pay prospects – go to Romania. That would appear to be the message of recent collective pay award statistics released by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, (an EU agency).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TOP European Commission official has called for the creation of a common European Union (EU) definition of the key legal concepts of “contract” or “damage”, as part of a ‘Common Frame of Reference’ for EU legal systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN pharmaceutical companies Hoffmann-La Roche, BASF and Rhône-Poulenc are being supported by the International Chamber of Commerce in a US Supreme Court case that could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with a negligible USA impact.…