Belgium, Finland and Sweden fail to implement copyright directive</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Belgium, Finland and Sweden fail to implement copyright directive"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Belgium,,Finland,and,Sweden,fail,to,implement,copyright,directive"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">04-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Belgium, Finland and Sweden fail to implement copyright directive</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_at6LFk7COpirq1TxViZR_0.jpeg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Belgium, Brussels (Mondaq): The 2001 Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC) on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society was due to be implemented by the Member States by 22 December 2002. The Commission provided a new deadline of July 2003, but Finland, Belgium and Sweden have failed to transpose the directive into their national law and have been ordered to pay the costs. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=30585&e=on " target="blank">www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=30585&e=on </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show