Search Results for: Germany

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOLIDAYS and pregnancy leave are a serious business, both for the employees who take them and the employers who pay for them. Unfortunately for personnel departments who might want a little more flexibility over whether they should shell out or not, recent cases at the European Court of Justice have underlined the right of EU citizens to take paid leave, rather than erode them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed takeover of SSM Coal BV, of the Netherlands, by Germany’s Rheinbraun Brennstoff GmbH, concluding after an inquiry that the deal would not create competition problems in the EU petcoke market.

Rheinbraun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German RWE Group, distributes coal and other solid fuels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has further clarified European competition law regarding the operation of packaging waste disposal systems and when it will allow exclusive contracts to be signed with collection agencies for particular localities. Its advice has come in a decision to approve the packaging waste operation run in Germany by Duales System Deutschland AG, the only company that runs a nationwide system for the collection and recycling of sales packaging in the country.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Electronic Signature Directive is unlikely to be implemented for a long time yet even though it should have become law in the 15 member countries in July, the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference, in Westminster, was told Wednesday.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

Keith Nuthall
COMPANIES planning Europe-wide direct marketing campaigns using unsolicited e-mails, or spamming, will have to ensure that their mailing lists are sophisticated enough to tell where an addressee actually lives, or face possible prosecution for breaking national Internet laws.

This is the likely consequence of the decision this week by EU ministers to dodge setting an EU-wide legal system for spamming and cold telesales calling, said Jake Saunders, European director of technology analyst group Strategis.…

Alan Osborne
THE INTRODUCTION of e-commerce into the European Union, already disappointingly slow, is further threatened by the failure so far of the 15 member countries to adopt the European Electronic Signature Directive, delegates to the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference at the QE2 centre in London have been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has re-launched its civil case against Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, teaming up from the start with Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and Luxembourg, to scupper any further defence that the EU had no substantive complaint against the tobacco firms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has re-launched its civil case against Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, teaming up from the start with Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and Luxembourg, to scupper any further defence that the EU had no substantive complaint against the tobacco firms.…