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  • Thirty years after oil was discovered in Chad, financing for the Chad-Cameroon pipeline finally closed in July. Annie Williams and Mark Castillo-Bernaus of Baker & McKenzie, London, discuss the groundbreaking project
  • Jasper Evans, Martin Krause and Peter Waltz of Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler, Frankfurt, answer some of the key questions companies face when planning an issue of exchangeable or convertible bonds in Germany
  • The Superintendency of Securities, the entity in charge of regulating the Colombian securities market, has issued Resolution 0275, dated May 23 2001, which constitutes an important breakthrough for the implementation of corporate governance standards in the Colombian corporate sector.
  • The final report of the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Company Law Review was published on July 26 2001. The report is a major undertaking which lays down a blueprint for reform and modernization of UK company law. Among other things the Review recommends:
  • On March 23 2001, the Swiss parliament passed a bill revising the legislation on consumer credits. The deadline for a referendum having run out on July 12 2001, the bill has overcome the most important obstacle to its becoming law. According to government plans, the new legislation will come into force on January 1 2003.
  • As part of the government's ambitious economic reform programme, Russia has recently liberalized several key provisions of the Law on Currency Regulation and Currency Control, which has long been criticized as overly restrictive. The main changes came into effect in early July 2001, and further reforms are expected in the near future.
  • On July 23 2001 Consob issued a communication to remind collective asset managers of the rules with which the process of making investment decisions must comply, inter alia with reference to some operating procedures required by the prudential rules for limiting and diversifying risk.
  • Ireland has followed the lead of other European jurisdictions by proposing covered bond legislation based upon the model of the German Pfandbriefe legislation. The Asset Covered Securities Bill is expected to be enacted into law in the last quarter of 2001.
  • Corporate governance rules play an important role for (institutional) investors and the good functioning of the stock markets. The main set of existing Belgian rules on corporate governance in the modern sense is to be found in voluntary codes of conduct, but today this is considered to be insufficient.
  • The New Economic Regulations Act (loi sur les Nouvelles Régulations Economique, or NRE), which came into force in May 2001, has introduced a wide range of provisions to strengthen the legislative framework in the fields of competition law, company law and banking law.