Brussels, 16/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has got involved in settling a complaint about a late payment to a small German company, which had to wait nearly 11 months for payment - it submitted seven reminders to the European Commission. The Commission explained that because of technical changes to budget procedures following application of the new Financial Regulation, it had been unable to respect the two month deadline. The invoices were...