I think this may be a case of the wrong disc in this release's artwork MM.When i say the "wrong Disc" it is of course,entirely possible that this Disc was issued in this artwork,i've seen a few similar occurences before;),but as you can see MM,the "correct" Disc on Discogs ties in with the long Cat.No.,and doesn't have CDEMD 1017,which ties in with the release below.I've asked for the label to be changed to "EMI United Kingdom"as when the "correct" Disc has been added here,it will be apparent that "EMI United Kingdom" is on both artwork and Disc (although Discogs hasn't picked that up yet;)."Despite the name "EMI United Kingdom" is a brand that appeared worldwide between 1993 and 1998,primarily used for UK artists,Iron Maiden,Pink Floyd,Saxon".We only have 11 listed on CD Album World at the mo,but as pointed out in the forum,i believe many more may be entered under "EMI".
...It's the same disc in slightly modified packaging, which seems to have been done in order to fit with a new cataloguing system to take acount of an expanding market (Europe) of the time, and the corporate changes that took place to accommodate it:
The other one still uses the CDP cat number as it's lead, which is suggests an early (and original) CD release number, likely specifically for the UK (albeit that a european plant made the discs for it), and this distinction is made clear with the addition of something previously discussed in recent days:
...The addition of "United Kingdom" to the EMI logo (bottom rear of this cover), which the other one doesn't have (And which is odd, as that would suggest this is intended just for UK, as distinct from Europe more broadly), and the catalogue number follows the barcode here, and does away with the CDP cat, in order to fit with the system then adopted across Europe (and beyond!).
What is difficult, is to know which, if either, is a UK specific, and which is more generally European... both have those above mentioned features which could be interpreted either way.
I personally think the other has more claim to be UK specific (release), being a tad earlier, and the other simply reflects a process of uniformity of releases across a newly expanded market.
...Same disc, but a different release, technically, as the cat is different.
(basically, the whole industry created a disorganised, confusing fecking mess around this time, and which CDs tend to embody :)