* 1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

The president visited several European air bases to thank the troops ( not shown ) for their support of NATO Operations Allied Force and Shining Hope, 1999.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.

Croatia has had an uneven record in these areas between 1996 and 1999 during the right-wing HDZ government, inhibiting its relations with the European Union and the U. S. Improvement in these areas severely hindered the advance of Croatia's prospects for further Euro-Atlantic integration.

This goal was rapidly met with great success, as the nation joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004, and held the Presidency of the European Union during the first half of 2009.

In A Critique of Postcolonial Reason ( 1999 ), Spivak explored how major works of European metaphysics ( such as those of Kant and Hegel ) not only tend to exclude the subaltern from their discussions, but actively prevent non-Europeans from occupying positions as fully human subjects.

* M. Bell Mirabella discusses Christine ’ s ability to refute the patriarchal discourse in her article Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies ( in The European Journal of Women ’ s Studies, 1999 ).

In 1999, Switzerland concluded a set of bilateral agreements with the European Union covering a wide range of areas, including movement of persons, transport, and technical barriers to trade.

However, turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consecutively at each election since that date, and has been under 50 % since 1999.

Europe of Democracies and Diversities was a euro-sceptic political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2004.

Following the 1999 European Parliament election EFA members formed a common European parliamentary group with the European Green Party called The Greens – European Free Alliance.

Nevertheless the consolidation held through the 1990s, assisted by the group being renamed to the European People's Party – European Democrats ( EPP-ED Group ), and the group reclaimed its position as the largest group in the Parliament after the 1999 elections.

William Hague hoped to put the issue to rest by negotiating a new arrangement in 1999 by which the parliamentary group would rebrand itself as " EPP-ED ", with the " European Democrat " nomenclature returning after a seven-year hiatus.

The European Currency Unit (₠ or ECU, or ; ) was a basket of the currencies of the European Community member states, used as the unit of account of the European Community before being replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999, at parity.

* European Film Awards: nominee, Best Film ( 1999 )

International Formula 3000 was experiencing tough competition with cheaper formulae, such as European F3000 ( using ex-FIA 1999 and 2002 Lola chassis ), World Series by Nissan ( also known as Formula Nissan ) and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.

European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia ( 1999 )

On July 28, 1999 Bal Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1999 till December 10, 2005 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.

Steps towards reconciliation on a global level were taken in 1965 by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054 ; the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970 ; and the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.

A parallel report into the criminal justice system by Lord Justice Auld, a past Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, had also commenced in 1999 and was published as the Auld Report six months after the Law Commission report.

In 1999, the United States Congress created the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, to create an enduring national memorial in Washington, D. C ..

The Honduras-El Salvador Border Protocol ratified by Honduras in May 1999 established a framework for a long-delayed border demarcation, which is currently underway ; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua likely would be required.

In 1999 UDR was dissolved and Cossiga returned to his activities as a senator, with competences in the Military Affairs ' Commission.

Since the introduction of a national minimum wage in the UK in 1999, its effects on employment were subject to extensive research and observation by the Low Pay Commission.

He went on to become the Vice-President of the European Commission under Romano Prodi from 1999 to 2004.

He was obliged to resign as part of the forced, collective resignation of the Commission in 1999, but there was never any suggestion that he himself had done anything corrupt.

In 1999, in an attempt to address some of this controversy, the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission ( Historical Commission ), a group of three Catholic and three Jewish scholars was appointed, respectively, by the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews ( Holy See's Commission ) and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations ( IJCIC ), to whom a preliminary report was issued in October 2000.

The 1999 Lomé Accord called for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to provide a forum for both victims and perpetrators of human rights violations during the conflict to tell their stories and facilitate genuine reconciliation.

The Comisión Nacional de la Energía ( National Energy Commission ) is the regulatory body for energy systems, created by Law 34 / 1998, of 7 October of the Hydrocarbons Sector, and developed by Royal Decree 1339 / 1999, of 31 July, which approved its regulations.

Early studies prompted the European Commission in 1999 to ban stevia's use in food in the European Union pending further research.

In 1999 the Australian Productivity Commission reported that Australia had nearly 180, 000 poker machines, more than half of which were in New South Wales.

Zambia was active in the Congolese peace effort after the signing of a cease-fire agreement in Lusaka in July and August 1999, although activity diminished considerably after the Joint Military Commission tasked with implementing the ceasefire relocated to Kinshasa in September 2001.

By 1999, estimates provided by the State Sports Commission suggest there were 60 to 70 millions Falun Gong practitioners in China.

* Guinea's Telecommunication Infrastructure, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa ( UNECA ), 1999 figures.

After the " first stage " of reform of the House of Lords was implemented in the House of Lords Act 1999, the Wakeham Royal Commission on the proposal of a " second stage " of reform reported in January 2000.

the non papers produced in 1998 and 1999 ensured that when the UN Commission met in 2000 it could agree to host another Summit in 2002.

* Allan Lamport ( 1903 – 1999 ), Toronto Transit Commission Commissioner

In 1999 they brought a legal challenge to this patent which had granted a private US citizen " ownership " of the knowledge of a plant that is well-known and sacred to many indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and used by them in religious and healing ceremonies.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Czech can also be used in all official proceedings in Slovakia as granted by Article 6 of Slovak Minority Language Act 184 / 1999 Zb.

In late 1999, FASA granted Living Room Games a licensing agreement to produce new material for the game.

In early 1999, the source code of Heretic was published by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

In 1999 the source code for Hexen was released by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

He is the only one of the surviving terrorists to consent to interviews since 1972, having granted an interview in 1992 to a Palestinian newspaper, and having briefly emerged from hiding in 1999 to participate in an interview for the film One Day in September, during which he was disguised and his face shown only in blurry shadow.

Palestine was granted special observer status to the UPU in 1999, and in 2008 Israel agreed for its mail to be routed through Jordan.

Yemen was granted observer status at the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in 1999 and in 2002 and 2003 submitted necessary documentation for full membership.

However, a controversial judicial decision in 1999 granted Chirac immunity while he was president of France.

In December, 1999, a snapshot of the original OS / 2 JFS source was granted to the open source community and work was begun to port JFS to the Linux operating system.

In 1999 the local languages was granted co-official status alongside the Italian language.

TMC is an autonomous ‘ Civic Body ’ under the municipal charter granted in 2003, as per the Bhutan Municipal Act of 1999.

Unified status was eventually granted to Topeka Unified School District No. 501 on July 27, 1999.

Atlanta was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) on June 25, 1997, and became the league's 28th franchise when it began play in the 1999 – 2000 NHL season.

The city, which was granted a town charter in 1354, has been the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship since 1999, and is also the seat of Rzeszów County.

For example, the 5. 9 ( 5, 984, 285 ) patent was granted in 1999, but didn't first appear on a Pez item until 2002.

Originally known as Bungawalbin Nature Reserve, it was granted National Park status in 1999.

Springsteen occasionally granted the wish, though, such as during the last show of the above-mentioned tour in 1985 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, or on most of the quick American leg of the 1988 Tunnel of Love Express ( it was dropped before the end, and did not appear on the European leg ), or on the last night of a 15-show stand at the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey on the Reunion Tour in 1999.

The Lebanese authorities granted Okamoto asylum in 1999 because he was alleged to have been tortured in prison in Israel.

The arms for the County of Västra Götaland was granted in 1999 when the county was formed.

The Town of Moncks Corner was granted the trade mark " Capital of Santee Cooper Country " by the South Carolina Secretary of State September 9, 1999 and again October 21, 2004.

The Exorcist was granted an uncut 18 certificate on 10 June 1999 and several official ' nasties ' were passed in the early 2000s either uncut or with cuts restricted to sexual violence or actual animals being harmed.

New Zealand granted basic rights to five great ape species in 1999.

In 1999, after several years of a rocky relationship with the Ottawa Gaming Club ( who occupied the first floor of 631 King Edward Ave .) The Fulcrum was granted the first and second floor of the building as their new offices ( the basement was used as storage by the SFUO ).