Business guide to EU Initiatives 2000

Business guide to the EU initiatives 2000:

This book is unique in its coverage of pending and recently adopted Community legislation, providing both the general and specialist reader with concise, carefully researched summaries of the most important European legislative issues. Eleven sectors are covered, from competition policy to transportation. For each initiative the Guide provides background information and assesses the implications for business and industry operating in Europe. Each entry details the content of the issue and ends with a business perspective written by a professional and expert in that field. The background section provides an overview of the issue and summarizes the purpose of the proposal. The business perspective examines the proposal's likely effect on business operating in Europe.

This book is published by the EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium, an organisation that represents the views of European companies of American parentage to the European Union. It has also provided substantial input into the European legislative process. Its member companies are drawn from a cross-section of the European business community and are typically based in most Member States of the EU. The book is intended to help business professionals, academics, policy makers and all those concerned with European Affairs, understand the developments of the Single Market.

The eleven sectors covered are: I Competition Policy; II Consumer Affairs; III Environment; IV Financial Services & Company Law; V Industrial Policy & Institutional Affairs; VI Intellectual Property; VII Social Affairs; VIII Taxation; IX Telecommunications & Information Technology; X Trade & International Agreements; XI Transportation.

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