"They absolutely do not have any sort of pre-emptive right," said Erwin Hayden, a spokesman for E.ON.
Some proceeds of the sale will be used to document the Breton collection online, and a Drouot spokewoman said the government planned to exercise its pre-emptive right to buy some works.
Chilcot has revealed that new evidence came to light only when witnesses to the inquiry made reference to them in their responses to the "Maxwellisation" process, under which people facing criticism are given a pre-emptive right of reply.
It exercised its pre-emptive right to buy a 26% stake in France's second-largest telecoms company from BT for euro4 billion ($4 billion), thwarting (for now) Vodafone's designs on the company.
The French media giant has the pre-emptive right to buy the stakes from BT and SBC (at a premium), but it will have trouble finding the cash.Granada agreed to pay £1 billion ($1.6 billion) for Carlton Communications.
"It grants pre-emptive right to Thada to go in and fully occupy that space as it relates solely to anti-doping issues like drug testing and enforcement," said Matt Iuliano, executive vice president and executive director of The Jockey Club.
Typically these include the right to share in dividends and other distributions, to vote for directors and fundamental corporate changes, and to inspect the books of the corporation, and, less frequently, the "pre-emptive right" to subscribe to any new issue of stock.
Financing a vineyard purchase is not much different than buying a regular house or property, except for the Pre-emptive Right of the Neighbours statutes in some countries.
Morris retained the pre-emptive right to the Morris Reserve for himself, but sold the pre-emptive right to the lands in question to the Holland Land Company on July 20 , 1793(the Holland Purchase).
The Holland Land Company consummated much of its pre-emptive right in the Treaty of Big Tree (1797), extinguishing all Seneca aboriginal title west of the Genesee River except in ten reservations.
"In accordance with our legislation, pre-emptive rights belong to us," Mr. Shkolnik said.
