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  • The Measures for the Administration of Foreign-Invested Distribution Enterprises for Books, Newspapers and Periodicals was promulgated by the State Press and Publication Administration and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now Ministry of Commerce) on March 17 2003. The Measures will take effect on May 1 2003 while those regulations regarding foreign-invested wholesale enterprises contained therein will come into effect on December 1 2004.
  • On January 24 2003, the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) issued directives on the independence of financial research. The Federal Banking Commission (FBC) ratified these on January 29 2003 as minimal standards of self-regulation (code of conduct).
  • The Delaware Supreme Court handed down a ruling last week that will make it harder for bidders to lock companies into binding merger agreements.
  • Banks have reacted positively to the European Commission's proposals on the forthcoming Capital Adequacy Directive (CAD III), and the opportunity for early dialogue.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delighted shareholder rights advocates and dismayed many companies in April by announcing that it is to review proxy rules with a view to improving corporate democracy.
  • Government decree 12/2003 on the non-judicial enforcement of liens, pledges and mortgages (collectively referred to as charges) provides detailed regulations awaited by the banking industry since September 1 2001 when the Civil Code established the basic rules of non-judicial enforcement. The Decree became effective from March 1 2003.
  • A recent decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan linking registration requirements for foreign companies for the purposes of the Ministry of Taxes and the Ministry of Justice may have useful applications wider than those originally envisaged by its drafters.
  • Shearman & Sterling has ploughed through a 149-page document and negotiated environmental and political compliance issues to secure the first listing of a South African oil company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
  • Regulators have always frowned on selling derivatives to UK retail investors. But Simon Gleeson from Allen & Overy explains how careful structuring can overcome this problem
  • UK money managers are reeling from bold new plans to force them to separate charges for trading and non-trading costs. Thomas Williams talks to the woman behind the proposals, Christina Sinclair, head of the Financial Services Authority's business standards department