1.   Officials said they had no idea when the government will publish the decree, making it law.

2.   The government published a decree in July authorizing the sale of the next tranche of Renault shares.

3.   Mexico signed an agreement to impose the ban during an international whaling commission meeting Thursday in Japan and it published the decree to enforce the measure on Friday.

4.   Talks were completed a day after a decree was published ordering the privatization of civil and defense aerospace group Aerospatiale.

5.   The decree will be published in Palestinian newspapers Thursday.

6.   The Communist Party newspaper Granma published the decree signed by President Fidel Castro.

7.   The government of rump Yugoslavia, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro, published a decree announcing its acceptance of the IMF conditions.

8.   The military government published a decree Friday to stifle illegal currency trading and was immediately accused of feeding the black market itself.

9.   The prisoners walked free from penitentiaries across Peru after the government published a decree pardoning them in the state newspaper El Peruano.

10.   In another development, the French government published two decrees Thursday on decontaminating buildings where asbestos poses a threat to public health.