Currently, those wishing to bring private damages actions in the U.K. courts can rely on Commission antitrust decisions as binding findings of infringement of the law.
All companies have three months to respond to the statment of objections, after which the OFT issues its decision of infringement or non-infringment of the law.
"Despite initial assurances that the Iranian delegation understood this, the players came out wearing the hijab, and the head and neck totally covered, which was an infringement of the Laws of the Game.
The Laws of the game state that a penalty is "completed when the ball stops moving, goes out of play or the referee stops play for any infringement of the Laws".
Altogether, 17 out of 20 situations resulted in an actual infringement of the Laws of the Game.
In France there are two types of jurisdictions: the judiciary that judges trials between private persons and punishes infringements of the penal law and an administrative judicial system that is responsible for settling lawsuits between public bodies, such as the state, local bodies, and public establishments, as well as private individuals.
The Commission is monitoring very closely the situation in Guatemala, where, as a number of speakers have said this afternoon, mounting infringements of the rule of law and human rights, as well as the deepening polarisation within Guatemalan society, are causing increasing political and social tension on the eve of the 2003 elections.
