On 03/25/2011 02:50 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > See: > > http://www.express.gr/news/business/434458oz_20110316434458.php3 > > QUOTE Google translation: > > ". . . The company has secured all necessary permits both as regards > product safety and procedural requirements for setting up the > plant. The investment will begin the first phase of Xanthi, where the > company has purchased an old factory in which is already transformed > into a new unit which will be energy independent by using the same > product that we produce for the market and according to company > executives in October will be able to spend in the production phase. . > . ." > > Unless Rossi supplied the Greek government with a machine to test, I > cannot imagine how the government can grant permits.
Sounds to me like maybe they've just acquired the *building permits* to renovate the building and set it up the way they want it. It's easy to forget that such mundane things as knocking out a few walls and running electric wires here and there require permits, but they do. Actually building stuff and selling it to people is something else again, and that may or may not require its own set of permits. It may be that all they need to do is set up in a region which is zoned industrial and they're good to go (at least until somebody notices that they're selling nuclear reactors, of course).
