The plans for a full operating licence will be subject to public consultation in 2014.
Chevron either pays the fines, or loses its operating licence in Brazil.
Findings will be made public and form part of its application to the Marine Management Organisation for a full operating licence to begin.
Some of the biggest call-back operators have no operating licence, are not registered for business in Germany and decline to pay taxes on what they sell.
It said it had "already consulted the World Service on the draft operating licence" and would publish the draft for wider public consultation in the summer "as has always been our intention".
An Environment Agency spokesman said if the company appealed it would still be able to continue operating under its current licence until the issue had been resolved.
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In a contractual masterstroke, Microsoft was allowed to licence the operating system to other manufacturers, spawning an industry of "IBM-compatible" personal computers which depended on Microsoft's operating system.
China is the only nation in which Messenger will keep operating, because it is run under licence there.
Even in liberal Singapore, Mr Fernandes has been rebuffed in his attempts to win a licence to set up an operating base.
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The MCA said a subsequent investigation showed that Mr Wilkinson's Boatmasters' Licence was not valid for the area in which the Solent Scene was operating and that he had not complied with safety instructions by being so close to shore.
According to the Foss Patents blog, which tracks such matters, this is the nineteenth announced patent licence deal Microsoft has secured since 2010 from companies whose products use Google's mobile and laptop operating systems.
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