DAVOS, Switzerland — The European Central Bank is working on guidelines to prevent bailout plans from one country from being significantly more generous than plans from another, a central bank official said Saturday.
But he said requiring divestiture could limit the number of experts available to work on guidelines.
The institute recommends that less than half of those working on guidelines have conflicts.
But Kevin Rampe, the general counsel for the New York State Department of Insurance, said the state is working on guidelines that would permit their sale.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is working on guidelines for how Andersen clients should handle their audits following the firm's indictment.
The commission responded to criticism by getting to work on guidelines for non-horizontal mergers, which were published last November.
In preparation, the F.D.A. is working on guidelines for such apps, and in September it conducted a two-day public workshop for feedback.
To bring greater consistency and clarity in this area editorial and commercial staff have been working on guidelines for five broad categories of sponsorship across our papers and website: three under editorial control; two under client control.
"They have lost money and then been subjected to complaints in Congress about the lack of transparency on their balance sheet or their agenda," says the private-equity veteran.To try to reduce the criticism, the IMF has been working on guidelines for sovereign-wealth fund transparency, due to be agreed on at its autumn meetings in Washington, DC.
The European Commission says it is working on guidelines for the imposition of safeguards, but it has been saying that for the last three months, grumbles Thierry Noblot of the Union des Industries Textiles, the French industry's main lobby group.China is thinking of imposing restrictions itself: setting minimum prices on some clothing exports in addition to export duties of 2-4% on some textiles.
