1.   Another rule that was eliminated mandated that the petitions had to be presented on paper of a certain size and color.

2.   A petition had to be filed for a waiver, requiring a thicket of paperwork.

3.   However, Harris said that the petition would have to have been filed against subsidiaries rather than the parent company.

4.   Nor would the petitions have to be bundled in a certain way with specially colored paper.

5.   Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel has said the petition will have no practical effect.

6.   But while Schuessel said the nonbinding petition will have no practical effect, he is very likely to come under considerable pressure by a large number of signatures.

7.   Sheik Jaber is unlikely to change his position, but Baquer said the petition had to be submitted.

8.   The petition had nothing to do with politics.

9.   Constitutionally the petition has little force.