Erkki Liikanen, the deputy, the .EU instigator, will be able to see them in activity in his retired year, foreseen for spring. According with our last information, the management contract of the Registry between the Eurid consortium and the European Commission wouldn’t be signed. Nevertheless, the observers gave them time for the announcement of the first registries in .EU in November,2004. To remember that works for this extension began in the past century would be a smallness, in the beginning of this year. Then we comforted us, emphasizing the "sunrise period" which allows the companies protect its marks before the "avalanche", should start in the next months!

See http://www.eurid.be

JCV & SB